Sapphire X1950 XTX TOXIC - 2006 AIO Water Cooling and 'The Fastest Card On The Planet'!

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The Sapphire X1950 XTX TOXIC was the ultimate version of the X1950XTX. It came equipped from the factory with an all-in-one water cooling loop - commonplace nowadays, but back in 2006 graphics card manufacturers were only just dipping their toes into this new world.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:27 - The cards of 2006
2:50 - Keeping things cool
4:33 - The X1950 XTX TOXIC
6:03 - 'Fastest card on the planet'
7:45 - Will it work? pt. 1
9:01 - Issues pt. 1
10:46 - Will it work? pt. 2
11:27 - Issues pt. 2
12:44 - Make it green again
13:53 - Succes!
15:29 - Conclusion

Sources:
(1) AMD ATI Technologies Commercial
   • AMD ATI Technologies Commercial  
(2) DL.TV Episode 35
https://archive.org/details/dltv_035_...
(3) NVIDIA GeForce LAN 3 | November 7-8, 2006
   • NVIDIA GeForce LAN 3 | November 7-8, ...  
(4) Jesse Sutton, 2006
https://www.goodgearguide.com.au/revi...
radeon_x1900xtx_gv-rx19x512vb/219697/
(5) g4tv.com 9246
https://archive.org/details/g4tv.com-...
(6) Nvidia, 2006
(7) Club 3D, 2006
(8) Samsung, 2007
(9) DL.TV Episode 89
https://archive.org/details/dltv_089_...
(10) Diamond Viper V330 with Nvidia Riva 128
Mathías Tabó
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_128
(11) Creative Labs Graphics Blaster with Riva TNT
Tors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_TNT
(12) VisionTek GeForce 256
Hyins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce...
(13) Anand Shimpi, 2003
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: It's Here, but is it Good?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1062/3
(14) u/thesilverspyder
  / pcmasterrace  
/comments/92e8bo/watercooling_since_2003/
(15) CDRinfo, 2006
https://www.cdrinfo.com/d7/content/ce...
(16) Techpowerup, 2006
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/co...