Last month we brought you an interesting review of PowerColor X800 GT along with a supplement. To refresh your memory, ATI had decided to create a dead die SKU based on pipeline-crippled R480 and R423. Sounds like a plan to get rid of last generation VPUs right? Week or two ago, we've seen 12 pipeline GTO2 cards from Sapphire with Samsung 1.6ns memory chips -- most if not all are moddable to 16 pipelines.
Today we are looking at something special from PowerColor. Something overclockers will drool at. What if I told you we have a card equipped with its own liquid cooling system? That's right, it's the first card ever to be coupled with Thermaltake's TideWater system. No other AIB used this type of solution before. The card I'm referring to is PowerColor X800 GT EVO based on R480. Let me tell you, it rocks like crazy in our system! Don't mistake it with Mitsubishi Lancer EVO, although I have to say video chipzillas and vendors are using more and more fancy names to attract customers.
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Bjorn3d
Oct 3, 2005, 04:23 PM
