PowerColor LCS HD6970 Review

3D Mark

Published: 22nd April 2011 | Source: PowerColor | Price: £359.33 | Author:

3D Mark 11

With the freedom for overclocking that the watercooled LCS brings the performance is excellent. It's a fair whack ahead of a standard overclocked HD6970 and indeed is the best scoring card in our graph.

3D Mark Vantage

Vantage always prefers nVidia cards and their PhysX so while the LCS doesn't top our graph it's still the best of the rest, beating its air-cooled brother pretty handily.

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22-04-2011, 05:24:11

tinytomlogan

Today we take a look at the latest in PowerColor's Graphics Card range, the LCS HD6970. Factory-fitted waterblock Sir?

22-04-2011, 05:40:02

SieB

I must admit i'm impressed. After the first review of the 6970 with an air cooler the 6970 seemed pointless but this version is definietly worth the money especially after looking at the performance results.

22-04-2011, 05:40:56

dugdiamond

scrum-dilidy-umptious

22-04-2011, 05:52:26

Karlos_the_n00b

Always liked the look of this. Watercooling without the warranty voiding.

Hope you get to do a review of the 6990 version when its released.

22-04-2011, 09:42:58

MxFScotch

Yeah just tweaking my xfx 6970 that I put a xspc razor block on a few days ago. Sitting at 950mhz and 1425 on the ram amazing what watercooling can do. This card running heaven never breaches 53 Degrees. That's in loop with one 360 rad and a 950 cpu @ 4.0 ghz.

22-04-2011, 10:35:15

Mark26

Would love one of these too add too my rig

22-04-2011, 13:13:58

Zeals

Personally I would prefer a waterblock that completely covers the card, even though they won't really change the performance it will look nicer imo.

22-04-2011, 14:31:42

wotevajjjj

who wrote this ? there's no-one next to author

22-04-2011, 18:31:41

Karlos_the_n00b

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeals

Personally I would prefer a waterblock that completely covers the card, even though they won't really change the performance it will look nicer imo.

I agree, but remember in most cases you won't actually see the waterblock once it's mounted to the mobo. The back you will see however and that's completely covered.

The 6990 version though does have a full waterblock that completely covers the card.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/71-graphics/42908-powercolor-shows-water-cooled-hd-6990-and-hd-6950-vortex-2.html

Sorry I keep harping on about the 6990. Just really looking forward to that one.

28-04-2011, 00:17:06

Godsmack

Why it still dual slots card? they should make it one slot card.

28-04-2011, 04:18:15

jonowee

Quote:

Originally Posted by Godsmack

Why it still dual slots card? they should make it one slot card.

You did read the full review right?

28-04-2011, 07:28:45

Karlos_the_n00b

Quote:

Originally Posted by Godsmack

Why it still dual slots card? they should make it one slot card.

It's basically PowerColors PCS+ card with a waterblock fitted instead of a cooler. To redesign the PCB so all the sockets on the back span over one slot would just cost too much when you consider how many of these cards there actually going to sell.

I actually welcome this card and really hope we see more cards being sold with waterblocks, hopefully bellow the £300 mark, but at the moment with only the real enthusiasts using watercooling its hard to know how cost effective cards like this are.

28-04-2011, 12:13:14

Godsmack

I didn't read the full review I watched the benches.

I didn't know that the redesign will coast too much. But I think if they make it one slot card it will sell more.

29-04-2011, 05:10:08

MxFScotch

Not enough to justify redesigning PCB to wack off that top dvi port.

07-05-2012, 14:41:09

Mike & Kazri

Will a Razor 6970 waterblock fit the 6950?

PowerColor LCS HD6970 Review

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Published: 22nd April 2011 | Source: PowerColor | Price: £359.33 | Author:

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