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PowerColor gets official with liquid-cooled Radeon HD 5870 LCS

by Parm Mann on 29 October 2009, 09:53

Tags: LCS HD5870, PowerColor (6150.TWO)

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Having teased its collaboration with EK water blocks earlier this month, PowerColor has today unveiled the result of its joint effort in the form of the LCD HD5870 - a liquid-cooled take on AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 GPU.

The card, pictured below, sports a single-slot design and features a copper-base EK water block bundled with high-flow 3/8in and 1/2in fittings.

With the water block covering the majority of the card, PowerColor reckons it delivers "outstanding thermal performance" and has seen fit to factory overclock its core components. Users will find the GPU bumped from a stock 850MHz to 875MHz, whilst the 1GB of GDDR5 memory jumps from 4,800MHz to an effective 5,000MHz.

There's still no mention of price, but we do have details on availability. PowerColor's LCS HD5870 will be hitting stores on November 6th, and it'll be bundled with a copy of DirectX 11 gaming title, DiRT 2.



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IMHO 3% / 4% increase in performance is hardly worth the effort? I certainly doubt it will be worth the price, probably ~£100 premium on standard 5870…
MrRobin
IMHO 3% / 4% increase in performance is hardly worth the effort? I certainly doubt it will be worth the price, probably ~£100 premium on standard 5870…

maybe at stock it will be not worth it, but I'm gonna guess that with a little MSI afterburner you could probably get past 1100MHz.
It might also allow for quieter cooling. I hear the 5870 is a bit of a hairdryer under load.
GheeTsar
It might also allow for quieter cooling. I hear the 5870 is a bit of a hairdryer under load.

Ahh yes indeed. Forgot about the aural benefits.
Yeah I kinda figured the same (I had a 4870x2 before and it was the same, like a damn aeroplane taking off), that's why I'm going for watercooled 5870 in mine - I wonder if this would be quieter though, not knowing much about the process myself?