While PNY is not a name we have talked about when it comes to graphic cards since 2001, these guys are still around. For the most part there is nothing special about its cards, but today we have something that is special from PNY, an out-of-the box water cooled GTX 580. Let’s see what it does for us.

Over the past few years we have seen every size and shape of heat sink cross our site. Big, small, water, and air. We have tested all types of coolers for CPUs and even a couple for GPUs. The only kinds we haven’t tested are GPU aftermarket coolers included by the manufacturer. Today we fill in that gap in a big way. PNY offered us a chance to test its water cooling solution for its GTX 580 and we jumped at the chance to test it out.

To ensure a level playing field we made sure they sent us a bone stock version to compare to as well. We are going to test the cards from a few different angles including, power consumption, noise level and even the impact on CPU temps. Why? Because when you are spending over $400 on a video card you should have every bit of info available.

Today’s testing takes place on our [H]ard platform. The test bed consists of the GIGABYTE X58-Extreme motherboard, six gigabytes of Corsair DDR3 RAM and the Intel Core i7 920 housed inside of the NZKT Tempest chassis.

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