Final Words & Conclusion
The verdict
Um yeah, sexeeeh ! Of course there's no doubt about the fact that we like even the reference GTX 295 cards already. Heaps of performance is what you will get. Once a company starts tweaking the product, overclocks it, sweeten the bundle up with hot game titles AND then slap a shiny liquid cooling block on there for liquid cooling .. well yeah, that's just e-peen material really.
And sure we understand this very well, while a product like shown today is by far everybodies cup of tea, you certainly have to respect it. The downside is of course money. You need to put down roughly 580 USD on the counter. But for pre-equipped liquid cooling gear we definitely have seen prices far worse. Hey man, if that is not an issue for you, then yeah here we have an extremely fast DX10 class dual-GPU based graphics card which next to it's standard pre-overclocked can be clocked much higher. Now I do have to make a note about overclocking though, as there is an equalizing factor here, and that's your liquid cooling setup. If you use cheapo components with thin tubing, the cooling performance will be much much worse and probably so will your overclocking experience be. But connect it to say proper tubing, decent pump and a dual 120mm fan radiator and your results will be located in the high-end segment. While stressing two GPUs the temperature never got any higher than 45~50 Degrees C, and that's a sweetspot alright. So again, your results will depend on your liquid cooling setup.
Right, with that out of the way, the card is dangerously fast.. You have two GPUs rocking it hard while being clocked faster than default for you. As a result you'll play games like Anno 1404 at 1920x1200 with an average of over 80 frames per second (for that game it's really astounding), and mind you that's with all quality settings maxed out and 4x AA enabled. We can not leave out the fact that the industry is moving towards Direct 11 class graphics cards as we speak, and that does make this product a little difficult to sell, as everybody know that a Radeon HD 5870 might be slightly slower, but does come with a more advanced feature set. But that's your call to make of course.
Inno3D took the impressive GTX 295, improved its cooling, made it a stylish glossy product that is easy enough to install and then overclocked it a little, the end results is a really impressive card with superb looks and then combine it with a great software bundle as well. As expensive as it really is, this is one of the better and most valuable GTX 295 Liquid Cooling cards available out there.
The bottom line: Great hardware which makes this product thanks to it's aesthetics and cooling performance true pr0n for geeks and hardcore gamers. We don't like that, we love that..
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