14 DAY TRIAL // AMD may have introduced a graphics card with a hybrid cooler, but said cooler was ultimately not its invention, but that of a partner, specifically Asetek.
HIS is now readying a video board that is equipped with a different closed-loop liquid + air cooling solution, again not its own.
Called Arctic Cooling Accelero Hybrid, it has a radiator separate from the card, connected to the water block via a pair of pumps.
The fan on the card is there only to dissipate the heat from the memory and other PCB chips, the one that the water block doesn't reach anyhow.
Do keep in mind that HIS isn't preparing a Radeon R9 295 X2 dual-GPU card, though, but a Radeon R9 290X single-chip adapter.
And that's about all we know really. HIS didn't release the specs of the R9 290X IceQ Hybrid (that's the name of the board, blue and all). Do note how two 8-pin PCI Express power ports are present, instead of the normal 8-pin + 6-pin combo.
And it's said that the Arctic Accelero Hybrid cooler is actually cheaper than the Asetek one on the Radeon R9 295 X2. Imagine that. Then again, the R9 290X itself is cheaper, being a single-chip board and, thus, one that only needs one water block instead of two, so it makes perfect sense. Too bad the product price (and, thus, the price difference) escapes me at the moment.
