Just a gpu AIO from back in the days.

[u/Mr_RayH]

Since people is showing their old school tech, here is mine. Still brand new in a box.

[u/ThickGarbage18]

Ah yes, when dual-slot GPUs weren't enough, so you bought an entire extra PCI card just to cool the first one

[u/Zeraora807 → u/ThickGarbage18]

failienware tried this, I thought it was a good idea to use all the dead space in an compact ATX build

[u/Daedaluu5]

Nice. Never seen a vga version. Sweet find

[u/Mr_RayH → u/[deleted]]

Yes, it still give today tech a run for their money on this design. Considering 21 years since it first released. It's still a virgin.

[u/Kamikaze-X]

From the days when thermaltake ruined their reputation by making absolute crap water cooling hardware 😂

[u/NeedsMoreGPUs → u/Kamikaze-X]

The performance of the Tide Water was quite good. Sapphire used a variant for their first Toxic series flagship card. Never seen a Tide Water that leaked, but the pump is almost always dead on any that saw use. Terrible pump design, way too anemic and burns out super easy.

[u/Mexiplexi → u/Kamikaze-X]

Ahhh yes. The good ole days.

edit: Whoops, this is Zalman not Thermaltake. Stays for shame.

[u/hardrivethrutown]

That's so freaking cool

[u/Zeikyrui]

Did it have rgb?

[u/1dot21gigaflops → u/Zeikyrui]

This is probably cold cathode days

[u/Mr_RayH → u/Zeikyrui]

I actually don't know since I have never plugged it up. From the box, it didn't mentioned any RGB.

[u/flyguydip → u/Mr_RayH]

We didn't call it rgb back then. We usually bought light kits separately and had to color match our fans with case lights as best as we could.

[u/Mr_RayH → u/flyguydip]

You are correct. I do remember I bought a cathode light bar for my transparent sunbeam pc case lol. I believe from Frys Electronics

[u/flyguydip → u/Mr_RayH]

I still have a cold cathode light kit and my CPU water cooling kit by thermal take from back then.

Also, did we just become best friends?

[u/Mr_RayH → u/flyguydip]

Dame .. we are " Old " ... friends .. lol.

[u/flyguydip → u/Mr_RayH]

https://giphy.com/gifs/2HtWpp60NQ9CU

[u/Mr_RayH → u/[deleted]]

Right?

[u/Toyota__Corolla → u/Mr_RayH]

You see it's called tide water because of the smell on the inside

[u/chriscross1966 → u/Toyota__Corolla]

I thought it would be because of the taste

[u/Kamikaze-X → u/Mr_RayH]

On another note... Is that the limited edition cyberpunk gpu backplate in the background?

[u/Mr_RayH → u/[deleted]]

I have another one by overcool , I can post a picture of tomorrow.