Swiftech to release Full Cover for Radeon HD6970

We are pleased to announce the upcoming HD6970 true full cover water bock for Radeon 6900 series. The True full Cover Design solution uses all available mounting holes, and therefore prevents the PCB to bend, either during shipping, or handling. It also protects fragile components during handling/installation of the assembly.


General Design features:
GPU cooling: 0.6 x 0.6mm pin matrix
Moderate pressure drop
Liquid cooled VRM's with hard contact to block for perfect TIM
Compatible with large compression fittings
Compatible with stock HD6970 back-plate
Removable VRM copper plate
Compatible with: HD6970 and HD6950

ETA for introduction: Mid January

Intial test results are as follows:

Bench setup:

CPU: see data
CPU Cooler: Apogee XT
Radiator: MCR320 Drive, Pump @ max speed, 3 x Gentle Typhoon fans @ 12v
Loop setup: serial; quick disconnects: x 4
GPU: HD6970 engineering sample


Test results Summary:
GPU temps at 990Mhz x 1450Mhz under Furmark extreme burn 1920x1080 windowed mode : 43.19C with air ambient of 23.79C and coolant temp of 30.93C


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nice
any shots of the inside yet :)

does it come with a back plate or use stock

Needs internals.

Also, I'm really not sure about the looks - to be honest the logos and lettering look like something you'd find on a game cartridge from the 80s.

If you're going to put a sticker on it, make it sorta flashy ... that looks like some product from the early 90s.
I'd rather see bare materials like EK's blocks... just make it simple.

please just leave it solid black with no logo.

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Also, I'm really not sure about the looks - to be honest the logos and lettering look like something you'd find on a game cartridge from the 80s.

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:rofl: I'm glad it's not just me. Can anyone say Atari or Activision? :ROTF:

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Originally Posted by bill_d

nice
any shots of the inside yet :)

does it come with a back plate or use stock

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Needs internals.

Also, I'm really not sure about the looks - to be honest the logos and lettering look like something you'd find on a game cartridge from the 80s.

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Originally Posted by ScottALot

If you're going to put a sticker on it, make it sorta flashy ... that looks like some product from the early 90s.
I'd rather see bare materials like EK's blocks... just make it simple.

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Originally Posted by Roadhog

please just leave it solid black with no logo.

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:rofl: I'm glad it's not just me. Can anyone say Atari or Activision? :ROTF:

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internals: sorry, we won't disclose internals until product release :cool:

Sticker design:
I will continue to monitor this thread about this topic. A free block to whoever comes up with a better design. You got the week-end to come up with something. I am printing next week. email me photoshop file to gabe@swiftech.com if you are interested. All black doesn't count.

signing off to be with family.

Merry XMas to all.

the sticker needs a lot of work gabe.. the blue GTX580 version looks SO MUCH better

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/...c4f40eb6_b.jpg

Who needs Photoshop when you have PAINT?

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http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/...c4f40eb6_b.jpg

Who needs Photoshop when you have PAINT?

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Well someone with photoshop would of got the right card name in there little picture

LOL!! Nice picture though.

I prefer to have a solid piece of copper connecting everything. This reminds me of the old WB design that EK used to do. DD has been doing a good job with their full cover blocks as of late. The VRMs get hot on all the new graphics cards. I'm glad to see swiftech doing gpu full cover blocks, but I'd pass on this one.

look good

Wow 6970 almost at 1000 core, nice!! The looks of the block not the best gabe hehe, definately needs an improvement but good work swiftech :)

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Well someone with photoshop would of got the right card name in there little picture

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Why were you focusing on the text?!
He asked for a better sticker, he got a better sticker... I don't think anyone'll mind a number durp.

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Sticker design:
All black doesn't count.

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Personally I'd be happy with a swiftech logo, its already there in the corner, just move it to the center and make it a bit bigger instead of having 6970 written there.
:2cents:

The pic of jessica alba is gorgeous but copyrighted.
Using swiftech logo: we already have it engraved in delrin to the right.

Gabe mind giving us a quick preview of how it looks now ? or is it still the same? Merry XMAS!

oh poo :(
If you wanted to engrave more, just engrave the picture you have on the sticker! I think that'd look nice.

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/7...iftech6970.jpg

Gabe, feel free to PM me if you have any ideas.

How about leaving the sticker on a piece of paper so i can choose to not stick it on?
Or would it interfere with RMA if i peeled it off?

Hopefully you guys like this one a smidge better?

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/3...ftech69702.jpg

Looks actually half decent beepbeep, Maby red writing since its the red team? or red amd logo at the least?

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Originally Posted by Johnny87au

Looks actually half decent beepbeep, Maby red writing since its the red team? or red amd logo at the least?

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I'm still working on it to see what I like...we will see.

EDIT:
Latest incarnation:
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/7...techbeta45.jpg

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/6...iftech6970.jpg

Something like this?
V1
I'm not quite sold on it but, meh, its a start.

EDIT:
I think this looks better
V2

Anyways, I tried to incorporate the grid pattern that Swiftech tends to use on some of your boxes.

V3?
http://imgur.com/5PhGA.png