WARDOZER9
02-10-2011, 06:12 AM
Does anyone know if the Gigabyte Galaxy II (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835128015) is up to the task of cooling an E3300 @ 3.2ghz on stock volts, a stock clocked 8800GTS 512mb and possibly an Nvidia 7050/610 chipset?
I do already own the kit, it was a hand me down but it still works, just needs cleaned and new tubing.
I'm getting about 57 - 59* C under load on the E3300, about 76*C under load on the 8800 and I have nfc what the chipset temps are but the heatsink gets toasty. Was hoping that even stressing the radiator like this that I could still have lower temps across the board.
=== EDIT ===
The reviews I found showed people cooling OverClocked Pentium D's and 939 Toledo's down to 40 - 45*C under load for 110 - 130w CPU's and I'm only dealing with a 65w CPU and a possibly a 135w TDP G92 GPU ( based off of what wiki says about G92 TDP ).
The way I look at it is consolidating fans in the system more than cooling performance so quite honestly, if I can drop the CPU fan and the heatsink on the video card for fanless waterblocks and maintain the same temperatures or slightly lower then it would be a win-win for this specific situation where I'm out to cut noise more than temps. Also it would be nice to get a waterblock on the 8800GTS and get my other Pci slot back so I can use it for an X-Fi.
My case configuration would still consist of 2x Scythe 49cfm S-Flex SFF21E's 1 up front, 1 in the rear. I have an 80mm S-Flex SFF80C 30cfm fan on the way which will mount to the side panel blowing the air directly at the rear edge of the CPU socket and the vregs so there will still be some air getting to that region. I also have the 120mm fan on my severly overkill Antec TP3 650w PSU pulling air out of the case as well.
I do already own the kit, it was a hand me down but it still works, just needs cleaned and new tubing.
I'm getting about 57 - 59* C under load on the E3300, about 76*C under load on the 8800 and I have nfc what the chipset temps are but the heatsink gets toasty. Was hoping that even stressing the radiator like this that I could still have lower temps across the board.
=== EDIT ===
The reviews I found showed people cooling OverClocked Pentium D's and 939 Toledo's down to 40 - 45*C under load for 110 - 130w CPU's and I'm only dealing with a 65w CPU and a possibly a 135w TDP G92 GPU ( based off of what wiki says about G92 TDP ).
The way I look at it is consolidating fans in the system more than cooling performance so quite honestly, if I can drop the CPU fan and the heatsink on the video card for fanless waterblocks and maintain the same temperatures or slightly lower then it would be a win-win for this specific situation where I'm out to cut noise more than temps. Also it would be nice to get a waterblock on the 8800GTS and get my other Pci slot back so I can use it for an X-Fi.
My case configuration would still consist of 2x Scythe 49cfm S-Flex SFF21E's 1 up front, 1 in the rear. I have an 80mm S-Flex SFF80C 30cfm fan on the way which will mount to the side panel blowing the air directly at the rear edge of the CPU socket and the vregs so there will still be some air getting to that region. I also have the 120mm fan on my severly overkill Antec TP3 650w PSU pulling air out of the case as well.