If the £600 price tag associated with BFG's ultra-high-end GeForce GTX 295 H2O is just too big a pill too swallow, you might consider saving a tidy sum and opt instead for EVGA's lesser-but-still-mighty GeForce GTX 285 HydroCopper - now available for just £500.
The card, pictured below, is a pre-overclocked and waterblock-equipped take on NVIDIA's reference design. EVGA has bumped out-the-box core and shader frequencies to 720MHz and 1,620MHz, respectively, and the card's 1GB of GDDR3 memory is clocked at a blazing 2,772MHz. That's notably quicker than NVIDIA's stock frequencies of 648/1,476/2,484MHz, and almost on par with EVGA's For The Win edition.
We've yet to put it to the test in our labs, but it should, in theory, be one of the quickest, coolest and quietest GeForce GTX 285s on offer - and it may be open to a touch of overclocking, too.
The problem, of course, is that NVIDIA's top-end dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 can be yours in reference form for around £400 - that's £100 less than EVGA's GeForce GTX 285 HydroCopper. We know what we'd go for, but if you've got your heart set on a water-cooled GeForce GTX 285, then this is it.
Official press release: EVGA GeForce GTX 285 HydroCopper
