Asetek Claims First Liquid Cooling Solution for AMD's 'Spartan'

Yesterday will go down in history as the day when AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, finally succeeded in releasing a card that is impressively better than NVIDIA's high-performance GeForce cards. After the official release, a number of AMD's board partners also announced their implementation of the company's massive R700. These being said, Asetek is now claiming it is the first to provide a liquid cooling solution for AMD's Spartan.

The company, which was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Denmark, has announced that its industry-leading LCLC liquid cooling solution is now available for AMD's much anticipated dual-GPU flagship card, the Radeon HD 4870 X2. Asetek claims that its product, used as part of a Radeon HD 4870 X2 CrossFire configuration, takes up only two of the four slots normally needed for a CrossFire setup. This will allow users to take advantage of the remaining slots for other configuration upgrades.

"Heat is an 'age-old' problem for computers. However, what once used to be a concern primarily for cutting-edge systems has now become an issue for everyone," says Asetek's Senior VP of Marketing Gary Baum. "OEMs developing high-performance, low-noise systems require a safe thermal management solution that not only keeps their systems cool, but is easy to install, maintenance free, and most important, is virtually noise free." he further added.

According to the official announcement, the company's LCLC cooling solution can lower the GPU temperatures on the Radeon 4870 X2 by as much as 28 degrees. The product has been designed to provide a low-noise working environment, as the heat exchanger fan runs at a quiet 30db(A). With a 50,000-hour operational lifetime, the LCLC could equip some of the upcoming overclocked HD 4870 X2.

Unfortunately, there's no word on pricing and availability but, as already noted above, the solution could be integrated on some of the upcoming R700-based graphics cards.