*New* Swifty MCW-Ramcool VGA memory water-block

[xforce]

http://www.swiftnets.com/assets/images/products/MCWRAMCOOL/mcwramcool.jpg


The MCW-Ramcool is a standalone VGA memory water-block for nVidia® GeForce™ graphic adapters . "The design concept was to physically separate the memory cooling from the GPU cooling solution in order to get the best possible thermal joint and therefore superior overclocking performance; universal compatibility was also a must, so we had to invent a new type of fitting to allow for this and thus were born the patent pending "F" fittings, which I am sure will also have numerous applications in other fields; this was a creative challenge, but we are all quite proud of the result!" said Gabriel Rouchon, Swiftech's Chairman.


Details (http://www.swiftnets.com/products/mcwramcool.asp)

[Holst]

It would be interesting to see internal pictures.

I wonder how "universal" they really are.

I bet that wont fit some cards.

[Vapor]

http://www.swiftnets.com/assets/images/products/MCWRAMCOOL/ramcool-f-fittings-2-400x19.jpg

Looks like its straight from the kids movie "Robots"....and, yeah, internal pics would definitely be nice, I don't see how water flows over all the RAM :confused:

And they're showing it on a 6800U....they couldn't get a newer card? :lol:

[Pied]

lol, looks like a robot holding guns. seems kind of useless though, some nice ramsinks gets the job done

[Nanometer]

lol, it looks so stupid. It makes no sense, poor person who ever buys this.

[Petra]

:eh:

W....T...F...? Can you say fugly?

[Bail_w]

Memory Waterblocks are just a waste of $$$$

[HaxR3]

if u have the money to watse then fine

i mean if you had the room for a pa120.1 rad & someone gave you:

this block, a dcc, pa120.1 & tubes & sysram waterblocks would you say no?

[Squid_Spit]

I'd imagine the internals being just plain flat, i mean its only cooling 5-10w of heat.

[Renasc]

Zalman have something similar on a demo card on their website, although I've not seen anything official about it.

[septim]

too flat to think about it...

small tubing too...

[Pete]

Too small of tubing!!!

[creidiki]

What exactly is the point of this, considering even ramsinks + airflow is overkill for the heatdump of GDDR3 chips, let alone GDDR4?

The only thing apart from the core you actually *need* to cool on these cards are the VRMs, thats the only real reason to buy a fullcover - getting rid of the fan pointed at the VRMs.

Aesthetics aside, I fail to see the point of this... and I would laugh at anyone who put that in his main loop.

[Patriote]

What exactly is the point of this, considering even ramsinks + airflow is overkill for the heatdump of GDDR3 chips, let alone GDDR4?

The only thing apart from the core you actually *need* to cool on these cards are the VRMs, thats the only real reason to buy a fullcover - getting rid of the fan pointed at the VRMs.

Aesthetics aside, I fail to see the point of this... and I would laugh at anyone who put that in his main loop.

I Agree 100%

[mdzcpa]

Its set up as a simple parallel loop. Flow rate won't be that important for the ram, so the small diam tubing isn't a big deal. I bet it actually works fairly decently.

That said, I must agree, ram cooling is pretty useless anyways.

[charlie]

it allows swiftech to add another SKU to their line. That's the purpose here :D

[thunderstruck!]

W....T...F...?
QFT

[JoeBar]

Man this is horrible. It like a revival of robocop. :eek:
If u want to cool the vga ram there's only one solution, EK's fullcover... ;)

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

hahah, people here who run with double heatercores to cool an x2 and a 6800, and people running with res's are calling this foolish? wow.

[syne_24]

damn that's just hideous, look away!

[safan80]

Man this is horrible. It like a revival of robocop. :eek:
If u want to cool the vga ram there's only one solution, EK's fullcover... ;)


but the full coverage blocks don't get the ram on the other side of the card this could, so you wouldn't have to use stupid heatsinks.

[AMDfreak]

The 1800 and 19X0 cards have the RAM only on 1 side. I think the same is true of the 7X00 nVidia cards.

[Viktor]

The 1800 and 19X0 cards have the RAM only on 1 side. I think the same is true of the 7X00 nVidia cards.
Correct, the 6x00 cards has the memory chips on one side too, same thing with 9800 cards.

[creidiki]

Some 6x00 have them on both sides, and some X800/850s... but apart from that its all one side.

[Herc130]

Kinda like this for its out the box approach.

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/6632/dscn6148tih9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Hopefully they start using this approach for other applications.

[NickS]

That looks friggin awesome tho :D

[creidiki]

hopefully they dont...

[Sparky]

Kinda like this for its out the box approach.

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/6632/dscn6148tih9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Hopefully they start using this approach for other applications.
lol that actually looks kinda cool. Can't imagine what it would do to your flow though.....

[_G_]

Kinda like this for its out the box approach.

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/6632/dscn6148tih9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Hopefully they start using this approach for other applications.


looks like a leak waiting to happen, does it come with a small bucket to place under the videocard lol

[xforce]

looks like a leak waiting to happen, does it come with a small bucket to place under the videocard lol

that's a bad-ass joke..

:lol:

[Aramdin]

Sounds like FlowKillah Deluxe :D

[rithina]

I Agree 100%

2nd that :D

[MaxxxRacer]

60 dollars each... You would have to be mentally retarded to purchase that.

BUT if I had alot of money to spare and they had a X1900 based version I would purchase two of these, some 1/4" tygon, a DDC-1 and a Swiftech MCR120 and an extra yate-loon. That way I could have the ram on a totaly seperate loop for the ram and avoid those dumb looking adapters.

[Aramdin]

Wonder if these are any better than the Zalman solution, forgot its name though :(