The Sapphire Toxic X1900 XTX graphics card is the first water cooling serial produced card that had all you need in the package. Sapphire is getting ready for a new one based on the Radeon X1950 XTX card, the one that runs with faster memory, but interestingly enough we proved that even the Sapphire Toxic X1900 XTX has still a lot of steam. The card is clocked at 675MHz core and 1600MHz memory. The original Radeon X1900 XTX works at only 650MHz and 1550MHz memory. The card has 16 pipelines and 48 pixel shaders just like every R580 based card. This is the first water cooling attempt see for the Radeon X1900 series, and proves it is doable. - The Inquirer

Sapphire Toxic X1900 XTX 512MB PCI-E Review

Let's focus on the cooling. The R580 core is cowered with a water block. Two tubes get the water in and out of that water block and the both tubes are connected to a huge radiator, pump and reservoir. The Radiator, pump and reservoir part look like a second graphics card. You can plug it in a free slot in your PC. The radiator has a fan that cools the radiator and the water in it. It has two modes that you can change via simple switches. One is silent mode that runs cooler slower but still does the job and second is performance one that give you more cooling juice if you overclock. The memory is just passively cooled.

The package is incredibly big as it has to accommodate the card, a radiator with a pump all connected with tubes. It is roughly twice as deep than the usual box and is partially transparent. The Select DVD enables you to go on the internet and register for one of the few games that the company offers. Therefore you don't need to be stuck with a single game that you maybe don't like. It is very easy to install the card. No special skills are required, you just plug the card in a PCI Express slot and plug a 6-pin PCI Express power connector. Now you just plug the extra PCB with radiator and stuff in a free slot, done.

First or all the Toxic X1950 XTX is the quietest card from all the Radeon X1900 XTX and Radeon X1950 XTX's that we seen so far. This is the key buying argument. Second stuff is that it ends up faster even from the Radeon X1950 XTX in some cases. You can push the card for additional 20MHz and get even faster speeds as water will cool it but 700MHz is unreachable. We like the fact that its quiet, faster and that it can overclock. Sapphire makes dual CrossFire water cooled with new Toxic X1950 CrossFire limited edition cards and a Toxic X1950 XTX. Both cards are water cooled but use two cards and two coolers.

The Toxic experience should land on the RV570, Radeon X1950 PRO market as people would definitely like to have it and this one should overclock higher. Overall we like the water cooled Toxic X1900 XTX, it is a good, quiet card. At this time the Toxic X1950 XTX should hit the shelves quite soon and will take the $500 place and the Toxic X1900 XTX is going to drop and make it even cheaper.