Asus intros water-cooled 8800GTX

AFTER SAPPHIRE RELEASED a Radeon X1900XTX based card with Thermaltake's Tide Water cooling system, it took a couple of months for guys at Thermaltake to develop a water-cooling block for the GeForce 8800 series.

Now that the Tide Water is essentially done, Asus excelled itself by coining the snappiest, shortest name ever - the ASUS EN8800GTX AquaTank/HTDP/768M.

Under this name lurks a GeForce 8800GTX card with pretty bumped up specs: the GPU clock grew to 630MHz (stock: 575MHz) with 128 Scalar Shaders clocked at 1.46GHz (stock: 1.35GHz) and 768MB of GDDR-3 memory is now clocked at 2.03 GHz (stock: 1.800GHz), which yields a nice increase of performance.

However, there is a downside to this. Besides the price, GPU block takes two slots, so negating the advantage over air cooling, and Tide Water tank also takes an additional two slots. Hardly a compact solution, but it is powerful enough to lure single GPU enthusiasts. µ

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