EVGA is one of few manufacturers selling graphics cards with water cooling from factory. It’s hardly news, or surprising for that matter, that it has given NVIDIA’s flagship GeForce GTX 480 the same treatment. The company says that the card reach over 1 GHz in the lab.
EVGA GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper FTW is the name of the top model and with a water block from Swiftech the card has tweaked clock frequencies from factory, but the 750 MHz the card ships with (700 MHz is stock for GTX 480) is nothing compared to what it can do with this more efficient cooling.
According to EVGA they have reached clock frequencies of 1 GHz GPU in the lab and even if it doesn’t reveal what kind of voltages it used or such, this kind of frequency will be very hard to maintain with regular air cooling, not the least since the card runs really hot at regular frequencies.
We have witnessed the minor of the Fermi family, GeForce GTX 465, has reached frequencies up to 900 MHz GPU with stock cooling so we look forward tests with more exotic cooling.
