14 DAY TRIAL // Over the years, we got pretty well accustomed with Point of View's heavily modified video cards, so the recently announced POV/TGT GeForce GTX 590 Beast, which swaps the stock air cooling setup for a water-cooling solution, will hardly surprise anyone, although this is definitely one of the nicest GTX 590 designs we have seen in a while.
The POV/TGT Beast is just the second GTX 590 video card to be launched that comes factory water-cooled.
The first was announced by EVGA right after the GTX 590 was officially launched and is called the Classified Hydro Copper.
Just as EVGA's solution, the POV/TGT Beast also comes factory overclocked, in order to deliver improved performances, but the operating clocks of the card have been set at a much higher frequency than that of its EVGA rival.
According to Nordic Hardware, the two GF110 GPUs are now clocked at an impressive 691MHz while the 3GB of GGDR5 memory work at 928MHz (3710MHz data rate).
In comparison, the Classified Hydro Copper has the graphics cores set at 630MHz while the memory operates at 3456MHz.
To keep the temperatures of the card in check, the PCB is covered by a nickel plated copper water block which makes contact not just with the two GPUs, but also with the memory chips and VRMs.
According to the manufacturer, the water cooling setup employed keeps the card about 30 degrees C cooler than the reference design.
Point of View hasn't yet announced when the card becomes available or for just how much it will retail.
The GeForce GTX 590 is Nvidia's flagship graphics card and it packs dual GF110 GPUs installed on the same printed circuit board and linked together in SLI.
As a result, the card features no less than 1024 CUDA cores, 128 texturing units, 64 ROP units and dual independent 384-bit memory buses which connect to 3GB of video buffer.