ZOTAC Unleashes Water-Cooled GeForce 9800 GTX Graphics Card
June 13, 2008 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
New ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition delivers high-performance, quiet computing
HONG KONG – Jun. 10, 2008 – ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd., an award-winning NVIDIA AIC, today unleashes its liquid-cooled, near-silent single GPU graphics card – the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition. The new ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition is the staple of quiet computing, delivering the power of NVIDIA GeForce 9 series graphics power with PureVideo HD video processing technology into a virtually silent graphics card.
Cooled by a custom water-cooling system, the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition delivers high-performance in DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.1 titles while keeping thermal and noise levels to a minimum.
Unlike conventional water-cooling units available from third parties, the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition features a self-contained water-cooling system that requires no end-user maintenance. The self-contained unit comes already attached to the graphics card and only requires the user to mount the 120mm fan and radiator module.
“Many enthusiasts seek better cooling performance and quieter operation from their graphics card cooler through third party vendors, but maintaining low noise with high-performance using air-cooling solutions is a hard task,” said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. “With our ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition, customers can have the high performance and quiet operation of water-cooling without the hassles of regular maintenance or installation, which often voids the factory graphics card warranty.”
The water-cooling system installed on the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition delivers up to 21.5-percent lower GPU temperatures compared to traditional air-cooled solutions. The lower overall GPU temperatures result in a cooler ecosystem for all other system components.
In addition to the high-performance water-cooler, the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition receives a slight performance boost through higher clock speeds. Unlike standard NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX based graphics cards, the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition raises core, shader and memory clock speeds to 700 MHz, 1700 MHz and 2250 MHz, respectively, to extract every ounce of untapped power from NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800 GTX graphics processor.
Enjoy high-performance and quiet computing from a single graphics card with the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition.
General details
• New ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition
• ZOTAC Water-cooling system
• High-performance, quiet computing
• NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
• 512MB of GDDR3 memory
• 128 stream processors
• 3-way SLI ready
• HybridPower compatible
• PCI Express 2.0 interface (Compatible with 1.1)
• DirectX 10 with Shader Model 4.0 compatible
• OpenGL 2.1 compatible
• PureVideo HD technology with hardware decoding of high-definition video formats
• Dual dual-link DVI – up to 2560×1600
• HDTV output
• XIII Century: Death or Glory game bundle
Sapphire Radeon HD3870X2 Atomic Water Cooled Review
June 10, 2008 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
Sapphire has always shown to be one of the leading brands when it comes to ATI flavored video cards. A few months back, AMD introduced the release of the ATI Radeon HD3870X2 graphics processor. Since that time we have seen several of the board partners offering up their own style. Leave it to Sapphire to drop the hammer and show us something new, the Sapphire Radeon HD3870 X2 Atomic Water Cooled edition. The Atomic HD3870 X2 is the second card to be released under the Atomic name. Shall we see what the Atomic HD3870 X2 can do?
