Powercolor WC 6970

[dac7nco]

Okay,

Maybe Aigo or someone can answer this, but shouldn't this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131390 be a single-slot card? I thought one of the points of H2O (HO-ing) was not only thermals, but getting the most out of your expansion-slot real estate. Is this Powercolor card basically a stock card with a block attached, and hence the 2nd DVI?

Fiddle.

 

[badb0y]

That's just a reference card with a water-block on it, I don't think that's an actual custom card hence why the DVI port is up on the second slot. I don't think the card itself will take up two slots though, as in the block taking up two slots, it's just that second DVI port that will be extended to the second slot.

 

[nitromullet]

It's a standard EK 6970 waterblock, so yeah it's just a reference card with a block. PowerColor had an LCS 5870 with an EK block last year too.

It's pretty rare for waterblock makers to produce blocks for non-reference cards unless the non-reference design becomes very popular. Case in point was the 5870. It was almost impossible to find a reference design card after about March 2010, so the block makers pretty much had to start making blocks for the new, non-reference standard cards. Although they had to pick the non-reference design that was the most popular. I doubt you'd ever see a full cover water block for just a specific manufacturer's non-reference design unless it's custom made.