Shocking, yes, but the “vapor chamber system” at its heart, which they contend will knock off about seven decibels (compared to the GTX 480) does sound slightly cool (obnoxious pun!).
Within the sealed cooling chamber, you see, water will be boiled by a copper plate, and will in turn force a heat transfer from the hot components (which are also cooled by the fan). Once cooled, the water is then recycled back to the copper plate so it can do its thing again. A nice little enclosed cooling system that promises quieter performance.
As Rumorpedia reports, the GPU is still unnamed and mysterious, but it does exist. Release dates, pricing, all that? Unnamed as well. Just some leaked slides, available for viewing in the source link that follows. [Rumorpedia via Engadget]
nicholas
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 7:27 AMcough 580GTX
also this is card does not comply with PCI standards so your pretty much screwed and it is supposed to use about 300w of power
thats alot…
Peter Simpson
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 10:25 AMWill it randomly crash the graphics driver for no apparent reason, leaving your screen blank for upwards of 15 seconds?
OzHuski
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 5:27 PMEmphasis on fasts GPU… not fastest card. Im sure the 5970 as it is will still reign supreme until the 6970 and 6970X2 hit.. /sigh, GG Nvidia, nice try.
Come back when your part doesnt produce so much heat and can do multi monitor gaming via 1 card, then ill take a good look.
lukian
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM460s with the good twin fan design run cool. 2 monitors per card max, perhaps nvidia will match ati’s 3 at some point?
Tweak
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 1:38 AMIts like a minature kettle inside your computer..
lets just pray theres no dodgy knock-offs that have poor joins which fatigue and spray the inside of your case with steam…