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Swiftech Announces New Water Cooling for Radeon HD7970

American cooling company Swiftech has just announced the KOMODO-HD7970 full cover VGA waterblock on their official website. This is a single slot water cooling solution compatible with AMD’s Radeon HD7970 video cards. Swiftech is one of the founding fathers of water cooling for personal computers, and it&rsquo...

9 April 2012
02:43 GMT

AMD FX-8120 WOX-Series Liquid Cooler CPU Now Available for Pre-Order

Besides the FX-8150 WOX that we spotted earlier this year, AMD is also preparing the release of a liquid cooled version of the FX-8120, which has recently been made available for pre-order by an online store in the US. This bundle was dubbed the FX-8120 WOX by the chip maker, the WOX suffix at the end of its name po...

19 March 2012
21:01 GMT

Cooler Master Eisberg Cooler Series Inbound

After months of not offering anything in terms of water cooling, Cooler Master is developing a series of just this sort of cooling products. Of course, with a name like “Cooler Master,” it makes sense that the company would want to earn “mastery” of this particular facet of the cooling indus...

16 March 2012
09:31 GMT

PowerColor Builds LCS HD7970 Liquid Cooled AMD Graphics Card

Over the past week, the video market has been filled with news about AMD's latest graphics card, Radeon HD 7950, but PowerColor is now going back to the stronger HD 7970, even giving it liquid cooling. Going right to the point, PowerColor has revealed the LCS HD7970, a new iteration of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 g...

3 February 2012
06:02 GMT

EK-Supreme HF Waterblocks Have Mounting Problems with LGA 2011 Sockets

EK’s Supreme HF waterblock seems to have a few minor mounting problems when used in conjunction with LGA 2011 socket motherboards which prevent them from delivering their full cooling potential.Described as a production flow by the maker, this prevents the waterblock from providing the mounting pressure that it...

14 December 2011
15:11 GMT

Swiftech Puts the Apogee HD Waterblock to Work in Two New Liquid Cooling Kits

Shortly after the introduction of the high-end Apogee HD waterblock, Swiftech has made use of it in a new series of liquid cooling kits that are compatible with Intel's current and upcoming sockets as well as with AMD processors.The new cooling kit series is actually comprised of two models, the H20-220 Edge H...

4 November 2011
06:09 GMT

Swiftech Launches Apogee HD High-Performance CPU Waterblock

Water cooling specialist, Swiftech has just announced the launch of the company's new flagship CPU waterblock, the Apogee HD, which was specially designed to improve on the performance of its predecessors while also being compatible with AMD's Bulldozer processors and the upcoming Intel LGA 2011 CPUs.The mo...

31 October 2011
12:10 GMT

Hardcore Computer to Showcase Liquid Submersed Systems at SC11

At this year's Supercomputing conference, Hardcore Computer, a company specialized in building HPC systems, will showcase a series of servers that use dielectric liquid in order to cool the components found inside them.Unlike regular water cooling systems, the Hardcore Computer servers are completely emerged in ...

18 October 2011
08:41 GMT

NZXT Phantom Big-Tower Chassis Gets USB 3.0 Support and New Colorway

NZXT has just announced the release of another version of its successful Phantom computer chassis that adds a new orange colorway as well as USB 3.0 connectivity to an already impressive features list.The orange highlights used by the company for this newest version of the Phantom Big-Tower make the case an ideal can...

18 October 2011
04:19 GMT

Corsair Hydro H100 Coolers Having Fan Controller Problems

Corsair was, and still is, the subject of ovation on the part of its customers and market watchers, thanks to some of its products, but it looks like even this company is not immune to the occasional device build mishap. People may or may not now of a certain high-end CPU cooler known as the Hydro Series H100. ...

3 October 2011
07:46 GMT

Maingear Debuts EPIC X2 Water Cooler for Dual-GPU Graphics Card

Maingear recently announced that the Shift high-performance desktop can now be configured to feature the all new EPIC X2 closed-loop water cooler, the first solution of its kind to support dual-GPU graphics cards and SLI setups.The EPIC X2 is compatible with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 as well as GTX 580 SLI setups, a...

21 September 2011
04:54 GMT

PNY Liquid Cooled GTX 580 Now Available in Europe

After it announced at the beginning of June that it has developed a special all-in-one version of the GTX 580 that uses water cooling in order to keep the temperatures of the GPU in check, PNY has now finally made official this liquid cooled graphics card to its European customers.This solution was developed together...

13 September 2011
16:01 GMT

Zotac Unleashes GeForce GTX 580 Infinity Edition Liquid Cooled Video Card

Initially used for CPUs, closed-loop water-cooling solutions are everywhere nowadays, so keeping with the trend Zotac has recently announced the release of a liquid-cooled GeForce GTX 580 graphics card that delivers both high performance and quiet operation. Zotac's latest creation is called the GeForce GTX 5...

4 August 2011
02:40 GMT

EK Improves Water Block Nickel Plating to Resolve Corrosion Issues

Water cooling expert EK has just announced that it has started to improve the quality of the nickel-plating used for covering its water blocks as a response to all the corrosion claims that have reached the company in mid-June. The plating is used for protecting the copper water block from the corrosive agents fou...

2 August 2011
09:10 GMT

EVGA Develops Waterblock for the Unreleased GTX 580 Classified

An EVGA official has recently announced that the company is developing a waterblock for the custom-designed GeForce GTX 580 Classified graphics card, which will add to an already impressive set of overclocking-oriented features. “Waterblock is in the works for the upcoming GTX 580 Classified,” said on...

11 July 2011
09:15 GMT

Corsair H80 Water Cooler Arrives in Stock at Newegg, H100 to Ship in August

Announced at the end of May, Corsair's Hydro Series H80 and H100 water coolers have been slow to reach retail, but Newegg has started shipping the H80 from stock, while its older brother is expected to become available in the second half of August. Right now, Newegg sell the Hydro Series H80 for $121.99, whic...

1 July 2011
09:57 GMT

Lian Li PC-A05FN Mid-Tower Chassis Features an Innovative Design

Lian Li, a company well renowned for its stylish PC enclosures, has just announced the introduction of a new all-aluminum mid-tower chassis which uses an innovative design in order to keep the dimensions of the case to a minimum.The end result is called the PC-A05FN and measures 210x385x500mm in size while still reta...

22 June 2011
04:37 GMT

EK Halts Production of All Nickel-Plated Water Blocks

EK has just announced that it has halted the production of nickel-plated copper water blocks after receiving several notifications from customers complaining about the quality of the nickel plating used in its products. The plating is used for protecting the copper water block from the corrosive agents found in wa...

14 June 2011
04:00 GMT

CoolIT Announces Closed-Loop Water Cooler for the GTX 590

CoolIT, a company well renowned for its liquid cooling solutions, has just announced the introduction of the Omni N590 closed-loop water cooler which was specially designed for Nvidia's dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 graphics card and is targeted towards system integrators.The Omni N590 is compatible with both single ...

8 June 2011
06:13 GMT

PNY Debuts Water-Cooled XLR8 GTX 580 Graphics Card

A couple of days ago Asetek and PNY announced they have joined forces in order to develop a new series of water-cooled graphics cards, and today the two companies have made their first such product, the XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580, official. According to PNY, the new water cooling system employed by its latest crea...

8 June 2011
05:02 GMT

PNY Joins Forces with Asetek to Develop Water Cooled Graphics Cards

Asetek and PNY have just announced that the two companies are joining forces in order to develop a new series of graphics cards that will come out-of-the box with an Asetek-sealed liquid cooler to deliver better thermal and acoustic performance.PNY has already presented such a prototype in mid-April, but it now seems...

6 June 2011
05:28 GMT

Asetek WaterChill 2011C Water Cooler Available for Pre-Order in July

Asetek's WaterChill brand is set to make its comeback into the enthusiast space, as the company has just announced that the limited edition 2011C CPU water-cooling system will become available for pre-order from the beginning of July.The WaterChill 2011C made its first appearance at the CeBIT fair and it feature...

2 June 2011
03:54 GMT

Corsair Intros the Hydro Series H100 and H80 CPU Water Coolers

A little more than a week after the Corsair H80 and H100 water coolers have been listed online by a Swedish retailer, the company decided to make these two high-performance Hydro Series models official. Both the H80 and the H100 were designed together with CoolIT and use a low-profile cooling unit with a micro-ch...

31 May 2011
02:55 GMT

Digital Storm ODE Gaming Rigs Come Water Cooled and Overclocked

Digital Storm, a boutique PC builder best known for its gaming systems, has just announced the launch of the company's first pre-built desktop series, the Digital Storm ODE which is powered by a water-cooled Intel Core i7-2600K processor. The ODE is available in four different configurations, but all of these a...

25 May 2011
04:31 GMT

Alphacool Launches Nvidia GTX 580 and AMD Radeon HD 6970 Water Blocks

After a pretty long period of inactivity, liquid cooling specialist Alphacool has released two new water blocks for Nvidia GTX 580/GTX 570 and AMD Radeon HD 6970/HD 6950 graphics cards. Both of these solutions belong in the NexXxoS product line and feature a similar design. The two NexXxoS water blocks cover the w...

20 May 2011
16:31 GMT

Corsair Prepares Hydro Series H100 and H80 Water Coolers

When it launched the Hydro Series H60 water-cooling system a couple of months ago, Corsair stated that the company is working on releasing a few other such solutions in the not-so-distant future and now additional details about these coolers have come to light. Corsair's new lineup will be comprised of two mo...

19 May 2011
03:25 GMT

Cooltek Updates Its K3 Evo Chassis to Feature USB 3.0 Support

USB 3.0 has managed to significantly grow in popularity over the last year and a half, so many companies have started incorporating his technology into their products, including Cooltek that has just announced the introduction of the K3 Evo 3.0. Compared to the previous version of the chassis, the 3.0 packs the ex...

10 May 2011
05:08 GMT

PowerColor Makes Official the Liquid Cooled Radeon HD 6990 LCS

In mid-April, PowerColor has showed the world the first images of its upcoming liquid cooled Radeon HD 6990 LCS graphics card and now the Taiwanese company has officially announced that it started shipping this solution to its distributors. The PowerColor Radeon HD 6990 LCS combines AMD's flagship video card ...

6 May 2011
06:11 GMT

Maingear Systems Now Available with 180mm EPIC Liquid Cooling System

Custom system builder Maingear has just announced the introduction of a new series of water coolers developed in partnership with CoolIT that are available in the company's Shift, F131 and Vybe desktops.The new liquid cooler series is called EPIC (Enhanced Performance InterCooler) and Maingear and CoolIT have de...

26 April 2011
15:01 GMT

Intel Considers Bundling the Sandy Bridge-E Processors with Liquid Cooling Systems

During a recent presentation that was held at the Beijing Intel Developer Forum, the Santa Clara company revealed its intention of bundling its upcoming Sandy Bridge-E processors together with liquid cooling systems, such as the Corsair H50. The presentation was held by Benjamin Gould (Applications Engineer) and D...

21 April 2011
15:31 GMT

Nvidia GTX 590 Gets Water Cooled by POV/TGT

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 design...

14 April 2011
09:51 GMT

PowerColor Readies Liquid Cooled Radeon HD 6990 with EK Waterblock

Over the course of the last few years, many have argued that dual-GPU graphics cards should drop the regular air cooling employed in such solutions in favor of more advanced liquid cooling setups, so PowerColor has decided to develop the LCS Radeon HD 6990 model which pairs AMD's dual-GPU flagship card with an E...

13 April 2011
06:11 GMT

Asetek Develops Water Cooling Monitoring and Control Technology

Asetek has been quite busy lately developing water pumps for liquid cooling solutions built by the likes of Antec or Corsair, but somehow the company still managed to find some time to create a new technology and software which allows its pumps to be monitored and controlled depending on the operating temperatures re...

7 April 2011
04:55 GMT

EVGA Intros Water-Cooled Version of the Nvidia GTX 590

Now that the GTX 590 dual-GPU graphics card has become official, it's time for Nvidia's board partners to start announcing their solution based on this design, and EVGA is one of the first companies to do so with the introduction of its GTX 590 Classified and GTX 590 Classified Hydro Copper models. Both ...

24 March 2011
09:30 GMT

Thermaltake Intros the First XB ATX Chassis, the Chaser MK-1

Thermaltake has just announced the introduction of what they claim to be “very first XB (extra big) ATX mid tower chassis,” the Chaser MK-1, a case specially designed for gamers and users who may need additional space for installing extra-tall CPU coolers. This means that the Chaser MK-1 can house cool...

3 March 2011
02:51 GMT

CoolIT and PC Specialist Partner Up to Offer Overclocked Desktops in the UK

CoolIT seems to be quite busy lately as the company has announced a wide number of strategic partnerships with some of the biggest names in the custom computer industry, and the latest to add to an ever growing list is PC Specialist Limited, which sells gaming systems and home office PCs to consumers in the UK & Irel...

18 February 2011
06:09 GMT

Enermax Plans to Release Two High-End Cases During CeBIT 2011

Although the 2011 edition of the CeBIT fair won't open its gates until the start of March, some companies have already started announcing some of the new products they plan to unveil during the event, Enermax just announcing us they want to reveal two new high-end cases for now referred to as the ECA5020 and the...

11 February 2011
08:38 GMT

CoolIT Systems and Maingear Join Forces to Develop New Systems

Custom system builder Maingear and liquid cooling specialist CoolIT have just announced their partnership that will lead to the development of better performing and cooler running computer systems. The two companies have worked together before as CoolIT's ECO II CPU cooler has been used for quite some time by...

9 February 2011
03:35 GMT

Cooler Master Set to Debut New Water Cooler in Q1 2011

Lately, water cooling has become mainstream even for users that aren't into extreme benching and overclocking, so, during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, Cooler Master showcased a new cooler that caters to those users looking for an easy to install and maintain solution. Known internally under the code na...

12 January 2011
03:38 GMT

Point of View Unleashes the Water-Cooled GeForce GTX 580 ''Beast'' Graphics Card

I think that is safe to say that by now everybody has become well accustomed to Point of View's TGT tuned graphics cards, so I will skip any introduction and step right over to the newly released POV/TGT GeForce GTX 580 “Beast” GPU that comes ready for being water-cooled. Just introduced, the Beas...

3 December 2010
14:31 GMT

GTX 580 Gets Watercooled by Inno3D

Following up on the footsteps of its GTX 480 iChill graphics card, Inno3D has just made official the iChill Back Series GeForce GTX 580 that will come with an improved water cooling setup while still providing its users with the cool and silent operation associated with such solutions. Much like the iChill version...

2 December 2010
08:39 GMT

Spire Targets Enthusiasts and Gamers Alike with the Sentor 6004 PC Case

Although when hearing the Spire name most of us think about low-cost computer coolers and chassis, the company also builds solutions that are destined for a more demanding market, Spire just announcing the Sentor 6004 case that targets professional users, enthusiasts and gamers alike.Built using a 0.7mm SECC steel st...

2 December 2010
03:11 GMT

Water-Cooled MSI GeForce GTX 480 HydroGen Listed

After the release of NVIDIA's enthusiast-grade GeForce GTX 480, makers of custom cooling solutions were fast in launching waterblocks meant to deal with its considerably high temperatures, and MSI even showed off a water-cooled model at Computex, the GTX 480 Hydrogen, the very same board that has now been set u...

18 August 2010
03:06 GMT

Kingston Finally Releases HyperX DDR3 With Water Cooling

Kingston was revealed to be working on liquid-cooled DDR3 before, but only now has it decided to finally unleash the first member of the HyperX line that is actually equipped with a waterblock. Normally, companies only strap a heatspreader on their modules and leave it to overclockers to come up with unorthodox cooli...

3 August 2010
03:01 GMT

GTX 460 Gets a Waterblock, Courtesy of Koolance

Many products end up fading into obscurity almost as soon as they are launched, while others become hits the very moment they come out. The GTX 460 can be seen as close to the latter type, considering the many overclocked models that came out immediately after the reference solution was unleashed. One of the more rec...

2 August 2010
03:51 GMT

IBM Chills its Zurich Supercomputer with Hot Water

The big problem with supercomputers is that they use a great deal of energy. As such, companies that set up high-performance computing (HPC) installations do their best to reduce the environment footprint as much as they can. Even more unusual plans, such as using cow manure as a power source, have cropped up over th...

5 July 2010
06:54 GMT

Inno3D Straps Its Own Waterblock on GTX 470

EVGA may have wished it were the only company to launch a water-cooling solution for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, but it appears that this is simply not the case. In fact, Inno3D has also been working on a waterblock for the GTX 470, and it seems that it has finally been completed. The i-Chill Black Series GTX 470, pr...

20 May 2010
09:28 GMT

Danger Den's GTX 470 Waterblock Comes Next Week

By now, enthusiasts have likely heard more than enough about the high operational temperatures of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 400 Series graphics adapters, just as they are likely more than informed on their performance. According to NVIDIA itself, the temperatures aren't really an issue, since GF100 is a GPU desi...

11 May 2010
08:31 GMT

Swiftech Cools High-End GPUs with the MCW80 Waterblock

Enthusiasts may come to like a certain video-board maker's style and might not be especially inclined to change a graphics card's reference cooling solutions, unless they want to perform serious overclocking. For those that do want to switch to something better, a water cooling mechanism is usually the most...

28 April 2010
03:18 GMT

EVGA's Water-Cooled GTX 470 Up for Pre-Order

Though the GF100 managed to reclaim the crown of the fastest GPU on the market, it has a significant disadvantage, in that it produces a very high amount of heat. This drawback is what limits its overclocking headroom and gives the reference cooler a hard time. As such, it was hardly surprising to see several special...

19 April 2010
03:08 GMT


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