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And there we have the Hydra chip, model 22102 - it's the somewhat midrange IC from LUCID.
The VRM zone is cooled by a heatsink, we definitely can appreciate that. CHILL is in charge of programmable voltage management.
We'll set up two cards in Hydra mode today. On average this setup uses almost 600 Watts during gaming, yes sir. So that's the R6970 ICEQ MIX and, below it, one reference GeForce GTX 580.
Last photo before we jump into initial GPU heat, TDP and cooling tests. Here you can observe the ICEQ heatpipe design, two 6 and two 8mm pipes are used. In theory that should be sufficient, the radiating fins coverage surface area is neither big or huge though.
