14 DAY TRIAL // Being the enthusiast-grade graphics card that it is, the GeForce GTX 580 could always do with strong enough cooling to be pushed above and beyond normal heights, and it looks like PNY had this very idea and even built upon it, using an Asetek product.
NVIDIA's strongest graphics adapter to date might be the GeForce GTX 590 dual-GPU model, but the GTX 580 still remains the top player for single-chip cards.
Verily, there are quite a few iterations of it on today's market, with or without factory overclocking or special cooling solutions.
If they do have something in common is that they mostly stick to air coolers, although waterblocks and the like exist as well.
The cooling devices that are harder to find are closed-loop liquid solutions which can be used much like air coolers can.
PNY decided to put one of those to good use, specifically the model that Asetek unveiled back at CeBIT 2011.
A video has emerged of the company's GeForce GTX 580 equipped with the still unnamed contraption.
The card is shown working both as stock clocks as well as overclocked settings while going through the intensive FurMark benchmark.
At stock speeds (772, 1544, 4008 MHz for the GPU, shader, memory, respectively), the temperature stayed at 45.8 degrees Celsius, while at tweaked settings (995, 1846, 4400 MHz) it was kept at 53 degrees.
For the sake of comparison, a stock cooler, according to Asetek, keeps the temperature of the non-overclocked board at 70.3 degrees in FurMark.
For those that want some info on the cooler itself, it has an integrated coldplate and pump working in tandem with a 120mm radiator.
PNY appears to want a card featuring this cooler out on the market, under the name of XLR8 GTX 580, but there is no word on final pricing, availability and clocks, the same way the cooler has no actual name yet.