In-built water cooling seems to do little to improve the frame rates of the Hydro Copper 2
Water, water everywhere but you really don’t want to drink this stuff. Because it has coolant in it, and you will die. Or at least have a nasty tummy ache for a while.
The GTX 580 Hydro Copper 2 is EVGA’s monstrously OTT take on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580, a GPU that already has the honour of being the fastest single chip graphics processor around.

EVGA reckons that’s not good enough, though, and has kitted its flagship card with the company’s FTW Hydro Copper 2 water cooler, ready to be plumbed into your liquid-chilled system for that little bit of extra performance that air cannot provide.

If you’ve already got a water-cooled system and want a graphics card that wants to get wet with it, it’s a tempting prospect. There are just two things to bear in mind: You could buy a stock GTX 580 and fit a water cooler yourself. This is, of course, slightly riskier and won’t come with EVGA’s lifetime guarantee, but you could do it for over £150 less than this if you shop around. Alternatively, you could go for a lot more in-game performance and pick up a dual chip GTX 590 for roughly the same price.

Against those two alternatives, EVGA’s GTX 580 FTW Hydro Copper 2 had better be something special.

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