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High-end PC builder Vadim has entered the watercooling market under the name "BlastFlow". Its first cooler is a GPU waterblock intended to work on any graphics card.

Launching at the turn of month, the patented design is intended to be better at cooling than the opposition's watercoolers, and also compatible with a wider range of cards.

The Siberian modular VGA waterblock comes with a cooling plate designed to fit the target graphics board. The block itself doesn't need changing, then, if you change your VGA card.

Initially, the GeForce 8800GTX will be supported, with 8800GTS and Radeon X2900 plates arriving soon after. Plates will be anodised aluminium to begin with, but copper variants will follow, and we assume plates for even more cards.

The block will set enthusiasts back £100 before VAT at launch. Additional plates will cost less than £20. That doesn't exactly make it a cheap cooler, but this is extreme cooling we're talking about here, and the reduced hassle provided with the changeable cooling plate may well draw in the cooling enthusiasts.

Come September we'll see what the cooling crowd make of it. In the meantime, here are a couple of pics to whet your appetite.

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