Swiftech was almost the last company to present its ATI HD 5850 and HD 5870 waterblocks. At first sight, Swiftech Komodo 5800 does not look promising:
However, appearance is deceptive — new arrival has quite an attractive technical features. One of them — waterblock is compatible with HD 5850 vide card of reference design, but after slight modification of the mount hardware it becomes compatible with HD 5870 cards:
Thermal pads for memory chips and power elements are already pre-applied. Pin matrix base, typical for Komodo family waterblocks, allows to achieve significant GPU temperature reduction:
Swiftech Komodo waterblock looks much more attractive when installed on ATI HD 5870 video card:
The manufacturer also presented its own results of waterblock performance on the example of ATI HD 5870 card cooling:
Komodo HD5800 specification:
- Base plate: C110 copper
- Housing body: Black Delrin
- Inlet/outlet port threads: 1/4″ BSPP (G 1/4)
- Thermal joint installation: thermal grease (GPU) and pre-applied pads for memory, nvio and mosfets.
- Dimensions: 198mm (L) x 122mm (W) x 13mm (H)
- Weight: 0.772kg
Package content:
- Waterblock
- Two chrome plated barbs 1/2″
- Two plugs
- Thermal pads (already pre-applied)
- Arctic Ceramique thermal interface
- Installation guide
MSRP is $114.95