As Marilyn Monroe once stated, some like it hot. And where I say .. some don't. Yeah, that movie was a comedy yet what I'm talking about definitely is not. Graphics cards, well, generic components inside your PC actually have become way hotter temperature wise in the past 4 years. We all want the fastest performing products, and that creates heat. Today's graphics processors in the mid-range start at 500+ million transistors where the latest high-end products now sum up towards 1400 million transistors, of which each needs to be fired up with with current to make it work. Combine that with higher clock-speeds and a thermal envelope that has been raised (processors can work fine over 100 Degrees C these days) and you have a problem.

Well sort of. All these hot products have been equipped with pretty decent cooling. Yet often they disperse their residual heat inside your PC chassis, in term warming up other components. Though that does not per se has to hinder overall performance, it is a growing concern.

Luckily, if you can spend the money, there are always solutions out there that can solve the issue. Next to dramatically increasing that good old x-factor of your PC by aesthetically pleasing it, it is also one of the best methods of cooling down components. Yes we are talking about water-cooling.

I thank to the almighty one above that there are still some manufacturers out there actually releasing kits that have a pre-applied water-cooling blocks fitted to their graphics card. Today we'll review one of them.

We have BFG in da house putting down some Mack-daddy lovin at a GeForce 9800 GTX with their H2OC product, derived from H2O (water) and OC as in overclocked. Have a peek ... after which we'll dive into the actual review.

BTW I'm playing around with a new feature, hover over the photo below with your mouse and behold .. the magnifying function. Let me know if this is a feature you guys like, just post something in the forum thread related to this article.