PowerColor Radeon HD 6970 LCS Review

Posted on 2011-03-04 14:27:34 by Thomas De Maesschalck

This VGA card from PowerColor ships with a bundled watercooling block from EK. OCC spend some quality time with it and gave it an Editor's Choice award for the good performance, factory overclock, the overclocking potential and the quiet operation. The main con is the high price of this solution.

"This block when used in a liquid cooled system will deliver exceptional cooling performance with the card never breaking the 50 Celsius mark at 45C. What has to be the biggest advantage of the card is not what it has but what it does not have. That ungodly loud fan noise when the fan is pushed to the 100% level. No howling beast to make you wonder why you bought the card. The overclocks achieved on this card were 1021MHz on the GPU core and 1520MHz on the GDDR5 memory. Easily better than any HD 6970 I have tested, something I have to attribute to the exceptional cooling delivered by the Ek block."



Link: Overclockersclub

PowerColor Radeon HD 6970 LCS




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