Quote Originally Posted by MrToad View Post
From source:

[...]Due to reasons we'll tackle in our launch article, AMD urged us to not remove the card's cooler for the sake of taking photos[...]

Hope those "reasons" don't interfere with fitting a waterblock on this card... Excited as I am to get one of these to substitute my 2 x 5970s, if it can't go "under water" is not going in my rig
Taking the cooler off would mean you'd have to replace the TIM since the phase change TIM won't work as well reattached. But this is a standard procedure anyways, benchmark first, then check the insides.