After months of rumour and anticipation, one supposedly “genuine” leaked blurry photo after another, we finally have the arrival of the latest nVidia G200 graphics processing unit, successor to G92 in GeForce 9 series, the GTX280.

Over 1.4 billion transistors on this humongous piece of silicon, the brute performance of this GPU comes at the cost of massive power-draw and heat generated. With a rated TDP of 236W means the oversized cooler works overtime to keep this beast of a silicon tamed, preventing it from spontaneously combust.
To reduce the load put on the fan assisted heat sink assembly, nVidia engineers had to reduce the speed at which the GTX280 runs at, a measly 602Mhz core, 1296Mhz shader, and 2214Mhz on the 1GB of DDR3 memory. It is these unexplored potential that we are here today to exploit.

How do we go about doing that? Water-cooling of course!