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Asetek announced that its LCLC liquid cooling solution is now available for AMD’s multi-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 family of graphics cards (codenamed R700). The company says that — When used as part of a Radeon HD 4870 X2 Crossfire configuration — the LCLC system consumes only two of the four PCI slots normally used, freeing up two slots for other configuration upgrades. This gives end users additional configuration flexibility.

The company also says that “tests” (whose test i’m not sure) show that their liquid cooling solution lowers the GPU temperatures found on the 4870 X2 by as much as 28 degrees. This enables the cards to have optimum overclocking potential for the extreme applications, but to also run completely silent. Only the system heat exchanger fan that typically runs at a very quiet 30 dB(A)—equivalent to a loud whisper—can be heard, according to Astek.

If you’re interested in learning more Astek’s line-up of cooling products, check out www.asetek.com.

AMD has inked a deal Blizzard Entertainment to bundle Blizzard’s games across all ATI Radeon graphics products. As you may or may not know, AMD is the exclusive graphics sponsor for BlizzCon 2008 in Anaheim, Oct. 10-11, and its ATI Radeon HD 4800 series will be used in all PCs at BlizzCon. AMD does not go into what specific Blizzard properties it plans to bundle with its graphics products.

I could speculate about what products AMD could bundle with its graphics card offerings - Starcraft II, Diablo III, or World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - but why bother? Oh wait, I just did.