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PowerColor Announces LCS Radeon HD 5970 Liquid-Cooled Graphics Card
TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, is thrilled to announce the world's fastest GPU with liquid cooling solution: the PowerColor LCS HD5970 2GB GDDR5. Equipped with the award-winning EK cooling solution, LCS HD5970 enables superior gaming experiences, and easily boosts up the potential overclcoking ability in an ultra quite and cool operating environment.

PowerColor LCS HD5970 has a full water block mounted, which fully covers the memory and power regulator chip. With a copper base design, it is reduces temperature up to 30°C compared with the reference version. PowerColor packages a high-flow 3/8" and 1/2" fittings (barbs) to maximize water flow with captured o-rings to prevent leakage. Gamers can effortlessly customize their own liquid cooling system using these two fittings.

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Great $800+ and I need 2 of them :(

Better to get the blocks seperate so you can always go back to stock air cooler ??
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I dunno, saw alot of hub bub about blocks messing up cards, least this way you should have a reasonable assumption the block with actually work.
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Little overpriced though.
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Got my 5970 on ebay right now with the entire water setup, I think its quite reasonable, your thoughts guys?
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Got my 5970 on ebay right now with the entire water setup, I think its quite reasonable, your thoughts guys?
My thoughts? You didn't post up your benchmark progress with this card

How'd she fair?
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If it is on eBay I assume not to well LOL
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Nice price Rom, I got my 5970 on ebay right now too.... gotta sell now while prices are still hot
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I had three of the 5870 LCS and they were great water blocks. The cards themselves though didn't OC very well so I sent em back
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Sick card for a gaming rig .....

I am on the single GPU train for benchin these days.......

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The only way I could afford it would be to steal one ................
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