Powercolor Radeon HD 6990 LCS

Powercolor LCS HD 6990 4GB Review

So you say you want to get the fastest single video card out on the market in the HD 6990, but just can't stand the thought of a Hoover running in your case at full song during a frag fest. What is one to do to resolve this dilemma? Buy another card or two? Nope? Buy louder fans that push more air through the chassis to drown out the beast within? Nope? One solution is to step into the world of water cooling to save your eardrums, with the added benefit of lower operating temperatures, increased overclocking headroom, and of course bitchin' looks (yes, I am old school). If you are not running liquid cooling this might be incentive enough to switch to the dark side. PowerColor has taken a standard HD 6990 and added some visual appeal with a full-cover, nickel-plated block covered with a custom-engraved Acetal cover by high performance water cooling manufacturer EK Waterblocks. By adding the liquid cooling solution, PowerColor adds this card to the LCS line up as the HD 6990 LCS. Under the hood are a pair of AMD's low leakage Cayman XT cores clocked at either 830MHz for a 375 watt power profile or at 880MHz using the alternate 450 watt power profile for that quick boost in performance that can be gained with the flip of a switch.