NVIDIA GTX 580 Custom Liquid Cooling Block Available from DangerDen

NVIDIA's latest Fermi GPU, the GTX 580, has only been “officially” around for a couple of days and just about everyone out there's talking about its overclocking potential (which should come as no surprise, given the specific segment this monster GPU targets). However, in order to be able to push the GF110 core inside the GTX to even higher values, one might require, beside the technical know-how, some extra cooling as well (although the vapor chamber cooling built within the new GTX does provide a seriously enhanced level of efficiency), and for this reason, the guys over at DangerDen have come up with the DD-GTX580 block, a single slot solution for liquid-cooling all of the major heat components including the GPU, RAM, power mofsets, and more. The DD-GTX580 block is touted as being able to provide superior cooling performance (30-50C drop from stock cooler) while minimizing the pressure loss across the block. This, combined with other Danger Den blocks in a single loop allows a high flow rate thus maximizing the cooling performance of all the components. In order to demo the level of effectiveness provided by their custom liquid-cooling solution, the people over at DangerDen have also carried out some extensive benchmarking and testing, the best example being available in the enclosed photo (according to DangerDan, they got the screenshot providing 37C max load temperature with ambient about 18C. after running FurMark 1.8.2 for 10-15 minutes under full load and using a Black Ice Pro II radiator with Pabst 120mm fans, as well as D5 fixed speed pump). Obviously, such an advanced and effective custom liquid-cooling solution doesn't come cheap, DangerDen asking around 146 US dollars for the version featuring a Black Chrome Top and Copper Base and around 135 US dollars for the Satin Copper Version. However, it seems that they're also working on other color versions, which should become available over the next couple of weeks at a yet unannounced price point.