GTX280 Tri-Sli + D-Tek Fuzion GFX2 + Unisinks results
I always was a fulcover block fan because of the simple use in sli-setups, with the sli connector barbs i'ts the most neat solution to watercool the vga's.
On the other hand i know that watercooling the ram and mossfetts doesn't bring any more performance over good passive/aircooling.
Besides that it brings a lot of useless heat into the system.
And least but not last, only a block on the core gives better coretemps than fullcover blocks.
So this time I decided to go the hard way and bought 3 sets of D-Tek Unisinks and Fuzion GFX2 blocks.
Installing was a breeze, and i like the whole mounting idea, using the stock memory heat spreader, wich actualy function great as a backplate :)
The biggest problem there is that with tri-sli you cant bent those tubes without buckle them (inside a case off course)
So i cut 6 pieces of 90` elbows on 1 cm and with some tubing made them 180`
Quite thrilling while leak-testing, and very happy they didn't leak :D
I made some (clickable) photo's
Unisinks installed:
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/nouser/img081153978311.jpg
Fuzion GFX2 installed:
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/nouser/img08133fae8226.jpg
Setup running:
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/nouser/img08164acccb1c.jpg
The water is chilled @ 16`C (Hailea 1500 waterchiller and 50 litre reservoir)
No voltmods on the vga's
Results: core/shader/mem
Stock: 602/1296/1100
OC-ed stock air cooler 720/1458/1250
OC-ed unisink + GFX2 783/1566/1296
Temps stock air cooler stressed with 702/1458/1250 max 86`c
Temps unisink+GFX2 stressed 783/1566/1296 max 31`c
Definatly worth it !!