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[Computer Alchemy] E3: ATI Video Card Cooled With Liquid Metal: Sapphire Technology has built an ATI Radeon X850 XT PE card that uses liquid metal to cool the GPU and memory. Called the Blizzard, the card is quieter than a standard water-cooled system and apparently actually conducts heat by bathing the heatsinks in soothing liquid alloy.

[Krunker] Sapphire Card Cooled With Liquid Metal: Sapphire Technology demonstrated an ATI Radeon X850 XT PE card being cooled by liquid metal at E3. The card (known as “Blizzard”) used a liquid alloy pumped over the chip to cool it down. The allow is apparently 65 times more conductive than water and the card is now 25 percent quieter than a standard ATI card. The new Blizzard card will come with 256MB of GDDR-3 memory and should be available this summer.

Corvus Crow - The FireRaven: It is not so important that I lost my job even though my ratings from the student satisfaction questionnaire were the highest of the whole Program, and I never violated any rule, contract, or regulation. I don't even mind so much that I never received a direct phone call from anyone objecting to my ideas or procedures. What I regret the most is to have suffered CENSORSHIP inside my own university (in a European Union member state, of all places on earth), and as a result of pressures and threats coming from Collecting Societies and Recording and Movie Industries (on my website you have proof of all that).

Corvus Crow - The FireRaven: It is not so important that I lost my job even though my ratings from the student satisfaction questionnaire were the highest of the whole Program, and I never violated any rule, contract, or regulation. I don't even mind so much that I never received a direct phone call from anyone objecting to my ideas or procedures. What I regret the most is to have suffered CENSORSHIP inside my own university (in a European Union member state, of all places on earth), and as a result of pressures and threats coming from Collecting Societies and Recording and Movie Industries (on my website you have proof of all that).

  Sapphire uses liquid metal cooling | Hardware Secrets: Sapphire broke new ground with the announcement of a Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition sporting a cooling system based on liquid metal developed by NanoCoolers. It works like a water cooling system, but instead uses magnetic pumps to circulate liquid gallium alloy. Sapphire states that the temperature achieved is 10 degrees Celsius below that offered by an Arctic Cooling solution. The Radeon X850 XT PE Blizzard is a 16 pixel pipelines card clocked at 540 MHz with 256 MB of GDDR3 memory at 1.18 GHz.

  News | Hardware Secrets: Tul has just released its PowerColor Radeon X300 SE video card using the HyperMemory technology, that uses part of the system RAM memory as video memory. The X300 SE is the simplest (and cheapest) PCI Express chip from ATI, accessing memory using only 64 bits. The HyperMemory model has only 32 MB of video memory, but it "steals" the rest (96 MB) from the PC main RAM the same way happens with on-board video motherboards.

  News | Hardware Secrets: It will be sold by partners and XGI itself under the Volari brand. The 130 nm XG47 chip is an entry-level product sporting DirectX 9.0 and Shader 2.0 compatibility. It includes a technology called eXtreme Cache that, just like Nvidia’s TurboCache and ATI’s HyperMemory, offers the capability of sharing the capacity and bandwidth of dedicated video memory and dynamically available system memory. Video features include integrated TV encoder, DVI output up to 2048 x 1536, 3:2 pull-down for movies and LCD overdrive.

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