PNY XLR8 GTX 580 Liquid Cooled Graphics Cards Review Print E-mail

PNY has teamed up with Asetek to launch liquid cooled GeForce GTX 580 graphics cards. PNY GTX 580 Liquid Cooled Graphics Card with CPU Cooling delivers significant benefits, with up to 30% cooler temperatures, quieter acoustics, and faster performance than the standard reference designed NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 580 graphics card. With increased overclocking headroom versus air cooled, the liquid keeps overall temperatures low to provide better performance for gamers. Liquid Cooled also generates less heat – for a 30° C difference in temperature – and your PC parts are protected due to lower exposure to hot temperatures. Additionally, less noise is produced as fans aren’t running at maximum speed to compensate for the heat. Lower acoustics means a quieter gaming environment for more gaming concentration and the option for gamers to not have to use headphones to mask noise levels. The overall advantage is extreme performance and higher frame rates without the heat.

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PNY offers a 5-Year Warranty for the Liquid Cooled system. Users have a standard 3-year out of box warranty, extended to 5 years upon completion of product registration at PNY.com within 90 days of purchase. PNY also offers free 24-hour technical support.  PCWizKid will be reviewing both the GPU and CPU cooled models in a SLI setup.  The difference between the CPU Cooled version is that it comes with the installation kits for Intel and AMD CPU's, the radiator is wider than the GPU Cooled version, and it comes also with an additional 120mm fan.  Specifications for the GPU are identical for both models.

Specifications

COOLING FAN
Radiator fan to cool liquid coming from the video card

PIPE ONE
Liquid cooling pipes to transfer cooled liquid back to the video card        

VIDEO CARD
PNY reference designed video card

PIPE TWO
Liquid cooling pipes to transfer the heat away from the video card
CUSTOM DESIGNED COOLING SOLUTION:

Up to 30% Cooler temperatures than the reference designed GTX 580
Up to 30% Quieter than the original GTX 580
All in one design
Maintenance Free!
Simple Installation with standard size 120mm radiators that fits in a wide variety of popular cases

EXTREME OVERCLOCKED PERFORMANCE GRAPHICS CARD:

10% Faster than the referenced designed GTX 580 graphics card
Same form factor as the standard GTX 580 for easy installation in a wide variety of popular cases
Experience your games like never before with extreme performance and high frame rate without the heat.

Product Specifications
Core Clock     857 MHz
Processor Cores     512
Processor Clock     1714 MHz
Texture Fill Rate     54.85 Billion/sec.
Memory Amount     1536MB GDDR5
Memory Data Rate, effective     4212 MHz
Memory Interface     384-bit
Memory Bandwidth     202.18 GB/sec.
On-board Outputs     DVI, DVI, and HDMI mini
Bus Type     PCI Express® 2.0

Key Features

Full Microsoft DirectX 11 support
NVIDIA CUDA™ technology support
DirectCompute 5.0 Support
OpenCL Support
NVIDIA PhysX™ technology
NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Ready1
NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology2
Dual-Link HDCP-Capable3
OpenGL 4.1 support

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Conclusion

While you might be a little bit scheptical on how this liquid cooling kit can cool down both a CPU and high end GPU in a closed loop by Asetek, we were pleasantly surprised.  The temperatures were defenitely well below the expected and the system performed very well on all tests.  We were blown away by the SLI performance of both XLR* GTX 580's.  Basically nothing can touch this pre-overclocked duo when it comes to the performance and temparatures overall. 

The prices:
- XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 with CPU Cooling: US $649.99
- XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580: US $579.99

For a limited time PNY has a special bundle that you can order from their website here which has over $100 worth of bonus PNY gear: a 16ft HDMI Mini to HDMI Cable, a custom-built PNY 8GB ‘Liquid Cooled’ USB Flash Drive, and a ‘Liquid Cooled’ logo T-shirt.

 

 

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