The Ultimate in Water-Cooling for your GeForce3/GeForce3 Ti500 reference products is what the manufacturer claimed, but unfortunately we may never know just how good this little gem may have been. To be completely honest, I think it is about time to address the tons of e-mails that I get asking about what kind of perks reviewers get from working so close with the industry's leading manufacturers. Well, one example of a perk is this little gem pictured below. Originally, this product was introduced by me to one of our associates at a certain company. After convincing them that this product would be a great product for the hardcore gamer/overclocker in all of us, they agreed to give development a shot. I approached a 3rd party manufacturer with the intention of pushing this product out within a two to three month time frame. Now if any of you out there are familiar with the technology industry, you are well aware that this is a tall order. Most prototype development can take up to a full calendar year before it is shipped to retail. Needless to say, I worked closely with the 3rd party to get the design perfect. This process involved several testing stages and redesigns. Despite the pressure and a couple of major setbacks, we delivered the product to the company in time for day two of COMDEX 2001. We had pulled it off! The first GPU/RAM Block to be mass manufactured and distributed by a known retail company to the retail market, or so we had thought.