Reference Series is CoolIT water cooling solution for video cards, available for ATI Radeon HD 2900 and 3800 series (called AT version) and nVidia GeForce 8800 series (called NV version). Like the other CoolIT products this one comes pre-assembled, not requiring any kind of maintenance. Of course you will have to remove the original video card cooler and install the cold plates that come with the product by yourself. Both versions come with two cold plates to cool down two video cards in CrossFire or SLI modes. According to CoolIT this product will have a MRSP of USD 299.00.
The cooler itself is a box that uses two 5 ¼” bays from the computer case, with two hoses coming out of this box and being connected to the cold plates.
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Figure 8: CoolIT Reference Series.
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Figure 9: CoolIT Reference Series.
The cold plates for each series are completely different. On the AT version the plates are made of steel, while on the NV version the plates use a copper-made base and thermoelectric coolers (TEC, a.k.a. “Peltier”) between the water block and the copper base, making the water block to work as a refrigerator. If you look closely on the pictures below you will notice that the plates touch the memory chips, cooling them down.
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Figure 10: Cold plates from AT version.
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Figure 11: Cold plates from AT version.
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Figure 12: Cold plates from NV version.
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Figure 13: Cold plates from NV version.
