More info on BFG Tech's watercooled 8800 GTX

Author: Tim Smalley
Published: 10th November 2006
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More info on BFG Tech's watercooled 8800 GTX

BFG Tech's GeForce 8800 GTX WC - comes complete with countless wet dreams.

Unless you've been making like an ostrich for the last few days, you will probably know that NVIDIA announced it's rather awesome GeForce 8800-series video cards on Wednesday evening.

If you haven't already checked our review, we recommend that you set aside some time to learn about the most exciting graphics architectures the world has seen since ATI's Radeon 9700-series.

Amidst the launch day mayhem, the guys at BFG Tech and Danger Den announced the world's first production water-cooled GeForce 8800 GTX. Not only that, but the two companies have created the first single-slot GeForce 8800 GTX too.

Danger Den's waterblock is constructed in Copper with a Delrin cover and supports 1/2", 3/8" and 1/4" tubing with a G1/4 BSPP thread. We've attached some high-resolution goodness so you can see the card in all of its glory.

Overclockers UK has the card listed on pre-order for a hefty £600 including VAT, so you'll have to re-mortgage your house if you want a pair of these babies. From what we understand, the card is still clocked at the reference clock speeds of 575MHz core, 1350MHz shader and 1800MHz memory, because NVIDIA has prevented partners from overclocking on launch day.

However, while we were out visiting NVIDIA at its Santa Clara headquarters last month, we asked Tony Tamassi, Vice President of Technical Marketing at NVIDIA, about partner overclocking - he told us that NVIDIA wasn't going to stop partners from overclocking. I guess that means that we will see some pre-overclocked cards announced at some point in the near future.



Quote specofdust 10th November 2006, 16:11
Purdy. Every time I read about that Santa Clara HQ I read it as "Santa Clause headquarters" - with bits like that inside, the mistaken name might not be too far off accurate for many geeks :D
Quote rowin4kicks 10th November 2006, 16:13
wow just wow
i neeeeed one so badly
but at £600 a piece i gonna have to mug a hell of alot of ppl to get 3 of them! lol
Quote zr_ox 10th November 2006, 16:17
Its nice but the £100+ premium for Water Block & single slot :|?
Quote Tulatin 10th November 2006, 17:09
What's your point? The block alone will be around £70, plus you get to keep your warantee here.
Quote sandys 10th November 2006, 17:10
Can't use dual slot cards in my machine at all as I need all 3 PCI slots so water is the only way to go, not seen any shots of the rear of this thing yet I have had quite a few water blocks that claim to be single slot but they add an unecessarily large backing plate or over large screws meaning that if you have a large PCI device in an adjacent slot like an Xfi with large caps I have to bend or Physx card with largish cooler then teh clearance isn't quite there, would you know if these have this issue or any further shots.

The best WC blocks I have had so far for fitting my stuff in are from Innovatek but even they provide a silly backing plate that I had to hack down would like to just buy something like this and have it fit without getting out the hacksaw/dremel.

If these are good I may just bring a few back from the US next month and take advantage of the nice exchnage rate :D
Quote greensabbath 10th November 2006, 17:51
I saw this thing in person at the Geforce LAN, it looks friggen amazinly gorgeous...i'm getting two
Quote mikeuk2004 10th November 2006, 18:46
Quote:
Originally Posted by rowin4kicks
wow just wow
i neeeeed one so badly
but at £600 a piece i gonna have to mug a hell of alot of ppl to get 3 of them! lol

3?????
Quote EQC 10th November 2006, 19:06
didn't I read somewhere that this watercooled version would be available at 700MHz core and 2000MHz effective memory? (up from the 575/1800 std?).


*edit*...yah, it was here: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/11/08/GeForce_8800_and_NForce_680i_availability_and_pric/
Quote perplekks45 10th November 2006, 20:31
Quote:
Originally Posted by EQC
didn't I read somewhere that this watercooled version would be available at 700MHz core and 2000MHz effective memory? (up from the 575/1800 std?).


*edit*...yah, it was here: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/1...ity_and_pric /
Kinda embarassing for Bit-Tech to forgot they mentioned theirselves... :D
Quote:
Originally Posted by greensabbath
I saw this thing in person at the Geforce LAN, it looks friggen amazinly gorgeous...i'm getting two
Two, he? I haaaaaaaaaaaaaate you! ;)

I'm thinking about getting a 7950GT as it's affordable. Maybe eVGA to make use of the 90-day-upgrade offer.
Quote Skill3d 10th November 2006, 21:18
so its double sided ? it looks real nice, but I think I'll wait untill they have some oc'ed or a little price drop....
Quote DXR_13KE 10th November 2006, 22:48
POWERRRRRRR!!! at a price...... I WANT!!!!!!!!!
Quote samkiller42 10th November 2006, 23:34
:( oh well, 7950GX2 will do for me until Eddy Ek does a waterblock for it, and when something actually needs DX10.

Sam
Quote jjsyht 11th November 2006, 00:42
this is the best it can get (at least for me). The best gfx in a package with no compromise.

BFG you now top my list of gfx manufacturers
Quote speedfreek 11th November 2006, 01:14
I like the idea of single slot but not the idea of bfg. :D
Quote simosaurus 11th November 2006, 11:42
looks awesome, i want one to make my pc almost silent. hopefully it will be taken up and other manufacturers will start making this kinda thing for us
Quote Tim S 11th November 2006, 13:05
Quote:
Originally Posted by speedfreek
I like the idea of single slot but not the idea of bfg. :D
What's wrong with BFG?
Quote M4RTIN 11th November 2006, 14:01
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim S
What's wrong with BFG?

he did have rather big ears :D
Quote keir 11th November 2006, 21:45
Christmas here I come!!
Quote rupbert 12th November 2006, 12:19
Geek porn!
Quote Mother-Goose 13th November 2006, 10:44
Hmmm, that would work with a corsair nautilus as well (if you are like me and don't fancy making your own loop). The 3/8" piping is supported, thats ace!
Quote Tim S 21st November 2006, 21:36
This is now on sale: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-037-BG :)
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