Asetek offers liquid cooling solution for hot graphics cards

The latest generation of graphics processors from NVIDIA and ATI certainly do rachet up the performance.. but they also do something a bit nasty - they rachet up the heat too. In order to combat heat produced by these video cards, manufacturers are building in large and more powerful heatsink fan combinations but that makes for a rather bulky solution for the video card (gone are those single slot solutions eh?). Well.. maybe not! Asetek has a new liquid cooling technology called LCLC designed which can be used for both the new ATI Radeon HD 4800 series as well as the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 200 series of GPUs. The solution can be used to bring down temperatures by as much as 80 degrees Fahrenheit during peak operations. Worried by the fact that you have liquid-anything in your PC? Well Asetek assures the LCLC has met rigorous testing and can withstand shock, vibration, and thermal stress for up to 50,000 hours (that’s roughly 6 years). One more reason to consider liquid cooling - it makes for a much quieter system AND you can achieve single slot form factors again for these ever faster video cards.