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OcUK Tech Lab H2O HD7950 is awesome.

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I have had this card for over a week now and im still loving it, I wrote a review on the shop page but decided id put some info here too so perspective buyers with questions might get some helpful info from an owner.

The card is an excellent deal, £306 for a OCUK HD7950 with EK FC7950 full cover block attached with Arctic MX4 (that's £296 of stuff!) is great, its all pre assembled so just connect up and go, no messing around and if there's ever an issue no need to return it to stock for a warranty return.

Along with the card and all the original packaging and stuff (for card and block) you also get the stock heatsink/fan and what's left of the MX4, but it doesn't stop there, the card used (Im not sure if they always use this same card but its what was used for my package) is a Club3D HD7950 which is a reference model design so is fully compatible with the boost BIOS update from AMD, so a quick run of the update program and the cards running at 850Mhz with 925Mhz boost (this is a cool thing for people scared to over-clock their cards).

Performance is as you would expect from benchmarks both when stock and when updated to a boost model, of course being water cooler its completely silent, looks awesome and runs cooler than it would normally. Oh and it comes with Dirt Showdown, Nexuiz & Deus EX free (may include sleeping dogs now).

TLDR: The card only cost £10 more than the parts its made from and is well worth it A+ in my book.

Here's a pic of the card:

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I haven't tbh, I assume it will hit 925 by itself under boost but I haven't tried over clocking it because I don't like messing with stuff like that on GPU's, also I have it in a passive water cooling loop so wouldn't want to raise temps when everything I play runs fine anyway.
 
..but you can buy a 7970 for that price, and £306 is not the full cost once pumps, tubes, barbs, radiator, specialist case, etc are included. Realistically, we are talking >£400 for a card which may overclock 100MHz better than on air, but will still be slower than a £300 7970.

Sure, temps could be good and some WC system can yield good acoustic results, but my opinion is that WC is only really "worthwhile" for ultimate high-end components. It's a lot of fuss and bother for little end result.
 
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