Cool as a cucumber - Watercooled 580!

NathWraith · 18 Mar 2011 at 16:47

OcUK Extreme H2O Nvidia GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 @ £499.99 inc VAT

The OcUK Extreme H2O GeForce GTX 580 combines the fastest single GPU card on the planet with the most effective cooling solution.With features such as cinematic DirectX 11 graphics, CUDA and Nvidia PhysX technologies.You can expand your visual real estate across three HD displays in jawdropping stereoscopic 3D and experience immense framerates with blistering graphics.

Features:-
- Core Clock: 772MHz (Fermi GF110)
- 64 TMUs (GTX 480 had 60 TMUs)
- Memory: 1536MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 4008MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 384-Bit
- Processing Cores: 512
- Shader Clock: 1544MHz
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.0
- Display Connectors: 2x Dual-Link DVI-I & 1x Mini-HDMI 1.4a (Includes HDMI & VGA Adapters)
- SLI Ready (Upto 3-Way SLI Supported)
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- OpenGL 4.0 Support
- PhysX Enabled
- CUDA Enabled
- 3D Vision Enabled
- NVIDIA Surround Enabled
- Lower power consumption compared to GTX 480, only 244 watts
- Warranty: 2 Years

* All graphics cards are blocked and fitted to order so please allow a lead time between 24 - 48 hours.

Only £499.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

Jamiman · 18 Mar 2011 at 17:23

:O nice!

Wish i had a WC system and £500 spare now

pinki104 · 18 Mar 2011 at 17:37

wow thats nice, if only i had £500 to part with

tommytinkle · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:28

Hey,

I have cool as a cucumber already...... unfortunately its a duvet and not this beast

mremulator · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:36

pinki104 said:
wow thats nice, if only i had £500 to part with

Save yourself £45 and buy the components separately and fit the block yourself.

mjones1 · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:41

mremulator said:
Save yourself £45 and buy the components separately and fit the block yourself.

But if ocuk fit it you still have a warranty which is well worth the £45.

jlss · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:44

mjones1 said:
But if ocuk fit it you still have a warranty which is well worth the £45.

+1

tommytinkle · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:48

mremulator said:
Save yourself £45 and buy the components separately and fit the block yourself.

Didn't realise they were charging that much to fit a waterblock :eek:

but for retaining the warranty its worth it.

mremulator · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:48

mjones1 said:
But if ocuk fit it you still have a warranty which is well worth the £45.

OCUK should offer a discount for purchasing both items together IMHO. £45 for fitting seems a little steep... Just my opinion. Also do you get to keep the stock cooler out of interest?

Boozebeard · 18 Mar 2011 at 19:17

mjones1 said:
But if ocuk fit it you still have a warranty which is well worth the £45.

It's not like they will ever know, if you just put the stock cooler back on.

mremulator · 18 Mar 2011 at 19:18

Boozebeard said:
It's not like they will ever know, if you just put the stock cooler back on.

Exactly.

LiamC · 18 Mar 2011 at 19:44

Imagine this in the "Ultima Hydrophobia" OcUk Rig.

DAMN.

TerryH · 18 Mar 2011 at 20:16

I'm the last person to say this because I'm such a tight wad but in regards to water cooling a 580 and the so called £45 expense, it's actually worth it.

tommytinkle · 18 Mar 2011 at 21:03

Hey,

He's on about the £45 charge to fit the block. I'd be tempted with a stock 580 given they are circa £380 now but you'd want a nice watercooling loop to go with that card

Ace Modder · 18 Mar 2011 at 21:31

When we fit a water block to a GPU it invalidates the warranty with the manufacturer, so if we sell you a GPU with a water block we fit then if the card becomes faulty and OcUK will have to replace your card & block at OcUK's cost, hence the price for fitting and warrantying the card.

A card can take upto 30 mins to fit the block properly, think about what servicing costs you get from a garage for your car and then the warranty covered by OcUK, so £45 isnt expensive.

Greboth · 18 Mar 2011 at 21:40

ooo shiney. £45 on face value is steep until you actually think about it and I would pay that. Took me about 2 hours to remove my stock heat sink as I couldn't get one of the screw out, so removing hassle and then fitting the block and the removal of worrying of bricking your new card - £45 is well worth it IMO.

I am not looking at the upgrade at the moment but sometime to remember come upgrade time. Couple of questions if you don't mind though.
1. Do we get the stock cooler too? Really thinking come resale would be nice to have it.
2. The picture shows the plexi block, would it be possible to get the acetal blocks fitted if you phoned up?

tommytinkle · 18 Mar 2011 at 21:45

Ace Modder said:
When we fit a water block to a GPU it invalidates the warranty with the manufacturer, so if we sell you a GPU with a water block we fit then if the card becomes faulty and OcUK will have to replace your card & block at OcUK's cost, hence the price for fitting and warrantying the card.

A card can take upto 30 mins to fit the block properly, think about what servicing costs you get from a garage for your car and then the warranty covered by OcUK, so £45 isnt expensive.

Hey Ace,

Think you've got it covered there but servicing labour wise from my garage is £30 per hour and he gets all oily doing so! You guys get to play with expensive stuff while remaining clean! You should pay us

deusexlumina · 18 Mar 2011 at 21:52

quite a good deal, but i swear i saw the evga hydro copper for around the same price.

Squid · 18 Mar 2011 at 22:35

tommytinkle said:
my garage is £30 per hour

Thats cheap , clearly not a main dealer also you could always fix the car yourself ! ,
Unpack card -> Test card -> fit Water block -> Test card -> Package card = about a hours work.

fiveub · 18 Mar 2011 at 22:52

This is great, if you were to do this yourself you would have no warranty at all, so if it didn't work or broke you lost the money straight away. The fact this is fitted professionally, has a fantastic waterblock on, tested before being sent out, and is a good quality graphic card and has TWO years warranty. Bargain deal to be quite honest.