Gainward Readies GeForce GTX 580 Phantom 3 GB Graphics Card

[E.R]

EK are doing a water block for the non-rerefence GTX 570 Gainward? The Palit/Gainward use the same PCB as the 570 card so maybe that watercooler would work on these 580 cards?

http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index.p...t01returnid=17
"Due to demand and request we decided to start working on waterblocks for nonreference Geforce 570 GTX graphic cards.
Cards in question are made by Palit and Gainward.
ETA 4-8 weeks."

Tempted to pick 3 of these puppies on komplett for the price of the week (470€)
Might be a sub 200€ deal after i sell the worst one of my two 980x and the 480:s with wc block on.

[prznar1]

do they have to do so long cards? cos of them even cases are going to abnormal sizes...

[Callsign_Vega]

http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index.p...t01returnid=17
"Due to demand and request we decided to start working on waterblocks for nonreference Geforce 570 GTX graphic cards.
Cards in question are made by Palit and Gainward.
ETA 4-8 weeks."

Tempted to pick 3 of these puppies on komplett for the price of the week (470€)
Might be a sub 200€ deal after i sell the worst one of my two 980x and the 480:s with wc block on.

Ohh sweet. I just hope that EK realizes the Gainward/Palit 3GB 580's will run the same PCB as the 570's. I hope there isn't an issue with some stray large capacitor or something that gets in the way of fitting the 570 water block on the 3GB 580's.

[445533]

How much money???

[Callsign_Vega]

How much money???

Overclock.uk has them for pre-rder 400 pounds and Amazon in the US has the Palit version pre-order for $628.


Good news from what I can tell, the GTX 570 phantom PCB and the 3GB GTX 580 phantom PCB's, atleast from the back and the solder points look identical. This would make it easier for water block manufacturers to release a single block for multiple versions of the card.

GTX 570 Phantom bottom PCB:



GTX 3GB 580 bottom PCB:





GTX 570 Phantom top:



GTX 3GB 580 top:

[E.R]

I hope EK understand this PCB sharing and make the block compatible with the two extra memorychip 580 has compared to 570 and widened the memorypad to support the 580.

EDIT: I had to mail them about it and we see what they say in the matter and if they are aware of it have the opertunity to leave material alone to support the memorychip for 580 3GB that 570 dont have.

[445533]

Overclock.uk has them for pre-rder 400 pounds and Amazon in the US has the Palit version pre-order for $628.

*faints*

I think I'll wait for the Gainward and see the difference. Where can I find the dimensions on both of these 3GB cards? I want to see if they fit.

[Callsign_Vega]

I hope EK understand this PCB sharing and make the block compatible with the two extra memorychip 580 has compared to 570 and widened the memorypad to support the 580.

EDIT: I had to mail them about it and we see what they say in the matter and if they are aware of it have the opertunity to leave material alone to support the memorychip for 580 3GB that 570 dont have.

Good deal, I also emailed them with the same info.

*faints*

I think I'll wait for the Gainward and see the difference. Where can I find the dimensions on both of these 3GB cards? I want to see if they fit.

I pre-ordered three of the Palit versions on Amazon seeing as if for some reason water blocks don't come out for them, I still have a 2-slot air cooler designed for fitting tri/quad SLI.

Some more info: http://vr-zone.com/articles/vr-zone-...w/10933-1.html

[bro20000]

Just ordered 2 looking forward to see how they perform!

[E.R]

3xPhantom 3GB comming my way 4:th of february. Could not hold off anymore to wait for ASUS and/or EVGA.
Waterblock or not it will fit even if it take up/block all 7 slot.

[Callsign_Vega]

3xPhantom 3GB comming my way 4:th of february. Could not hold off anymore to wait for ASUS and/or EVGA.
Waterblock or not it will fit even if it take up/block all 7 slot.

Did you order them from Overclocker UK? I went with 3x Palit 2-slot cooler design which allows me the option of a 4th card if I decide to go that route. Seeing as Palit/Gainward are the first to have the balls to do a non-reference 3GB GTX 580, they deserve the business.

[E.R]

Did you order them from Overclocker UK? I went with 3x Palit 2-slot cooler design which allows me the option of a 4th card if I decide to go that route. Seeing as Palit/Gainward are the first to have the balls to do a non-reference 3GB GTX 580, they deserve the business.

Komplett.se. They have/had a sweet deal of 470€ from normal 540€ for them.
If they do good enought on air i may not go WC on them, but it is nice to see the 480SC idle at 32celsius so if that can be sub 30 on the 580 i would like to see it IF the EK block fits.

[Postmodum]

ER ... nice price ... the 3gb phantom is what, 700's Eur ?

[E.R]

ER ... nice price ... the 3gb phantom is what, 700's Eur ?

Normaly 540 Euro, is/was 470 Euro in the deal of the week/weekend i snaged them.

[Postmodum]

Ohhh i thought you were talking about the 1.5Gb version ...

hmmm nice ...

[Dalten]

So any word on availability in the US?