Rukee
02-18-2005, 03:17 PM
That`s right, I needed an SLI adapter, and got tired of waiting for asetek to make theirs (http://forum.vapochill.com/showthread.php?t=8871) so I decided to make one myself. Ideally I would have like to have access to a metal lathe to turn a square peice of copper into a plug to fit on the Vapo head, but not having one I had to resort to looking at the hardware store for what I could find. I took the mesurements off the cooling tip and found a copper capping piece and an extention for working with water pipes made out of copper. The extention I hammered flat, with a hammer of course and then soldered the cap which fits very tight over the cooling tip onto it. Ground it down to the right size and then proceeded to the clamshell. That I took one side and ground down on a bench grinder till I got to the desired depth. Cut the exsisting foam insert to fit. I used a metel case PCI slot blank and cut and bent it up to fold around the edges of the bottom(now the end) of the clamshell to 1)hold the cooling tip in, and 2) to keep the clamshell from blowing open as one whole side as now been removed.
It works great, and the thermal transfer is better then I expected, the flattened pipe gets frosty. :)
Problem I have now is all I have is BFG 6800 cards, and they seem to have a sub-zero issue. I have wrecked 3 6800 cards now, the latest a PCI-e card. It worked for about 2 minutes, I quickly checked the temps in the display properties and it said zero. It ran just a but longer and then the screen got corrupted like it was full of condensation, all checkered board blocks. Drying the card by baking it for a couple days didn`t fix it so I`m gunna say that BFGs are temp sensitive as it looks like everytime I take one sub-zero it damages the cards in the same way. Unless someone knows something I`m missing.
http://www.justwebit.com/sites1/42124/parts.jpg
http://www.justwebit.com/sites1/42124/parts2.jpg
http://www.justwebit.com/sites1/42124/asmbled.jpg
Who`s freezing SLI cards?? what brand are you running??
It works great, and the thermal transfer is better then I expected, the flattened pipe gets frosty. :)
Problem I have now is all I have is BFG 6800 cards, and they seem to have a sub-zero issue. I have wrecked 3 6800 cards now, the latest a PCI-e card. It worked for about 2 minutes, I quickly checked the temps in the display properties and it said zero. It ran just a but longer and then the screen got corrupted like it was full of condensation, all checkered board blocks. Drying the card by baking it for a couple days didn`t fix it so I`m gunna say that BFGs are temp sensitive as it looks like everytime I take one sub-zero it damages the cards in the same way. Unless someone knows something I`m missing.
http://www.justwebit.com/sites1/42124/parts.jpg
http://www.justwebit.com/sites1/42124/parts2.jpg
http://www.justwebit.com/sites1/42124/asmbled.jpg
Who`s freezing SLI cards?? what brand are you running??