Probably the best 8800 water cooler snapped

As we noted earlier, the firm deveopled the reference water-cooler for ATI's R600 boards but that doesn't mean it is neglecting Nvidia.

Coolit's G80 cooler currently does not have a name, but the product is the first from these guys that features a TEC-element (Peltier) on the GPU block. It is designed to cool down the GPU, memory and power regulation (two brackets are supplied - one for 8800GTX/Ultra, one for 8800GTS320/640).

The clever part is that it draws power from the graphics card itself.

G80 cooler comes with two aluminium brackets - one is for 8800GTS, longer one is for 8800GTX/Ultra

The back shows just how large the cooling base for the GPU is.

We expect to see this cooler stacked together inside those pre-assembled systems, but also as a stand-alone product with that two-5.25-inch slot water-cooling box.

For comparison, here's a pic of the finalised R600 reference cooler, we should have posted earlier.

Our readers wondered how the final R600 product looks. Tony, Oli and Victor, this is for you.

Yes, we have touched both 8800 and R600 in action and the GPU blocks on both HD2900XT and 8800U boards were quite cold to touch. µ