i wanna know about the change in gpu ambient temps. i mean there is a considerable amount of heat to be pooling at the ends of the cards wit the vregs, mosfets, and ram sinks all there, with usually the lower card obviously hotter.
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i wanna know about the change in gpu ambient temps. i mean there is a considerable amount of heat to be pooling at the ends of the cards wit the vregs, mosfets, and ram sinks all there, with usually the lower card obviously hotter.
the card does run a little hotter @ core temps, mostly because of the added heat from ram & mosfet going into the block & loop. also its harder to get a good mount because its straight screws on pcb, you should really count the screw turns and take the block on-off multiple time to get the best mount but im far too lazy for that.
i havent really looked at gpu ambient temps because that figure is useless, it doesent represent GDDR3 or mosfet temps (which are lower than stock soolinh with fan pointed at, btw).
overall im quite satisfied.
do you (or anyone else for that matter) have an sli setup with this or any other good full coverage block? if so can you like sitck your hand in between the cards and see how the heat levels of the air there is? ha its silly but the concept of gettin rid of some of that ambient heat and dumping it into the water is very attractive to me.
hey maybe if i post here he'll answer... eddy, whats the status on the delrin tops? :P
Aren't those barbs 90 degrees to the flow? Looks like a classic elbow problem?
you mean they way barbs are 90 degrees to the flow in ANY gpu block? :)
They dont poke into the channel, and the channel has a cross-section like a 1/2ID tube, i doubt it makes much of a difference. And you couldnt close the case if they were poking straight out.
The barbs on my Maze4 gpu lie on the same plane as the flow of water and don't add an unnecessary bend.
... no, the water has to take a 90 dgree turn in a maze 4 as well.
Understood, which is why I said unnecessary bends. :D Better only 1 90 degree turn instead of 3?Quote:
Originally Posted by creidiki
*shrug*
its a full-cover block, how else are you going to do it?
@ creidiki. Have u gained anything in mem oc with this block?
Havent even tried mate, imo current X1*00 OCing tools arent ready yet. Too messy and buggy. I went back to overdrive, and that'll be it until I finish my exams at least. When it comes to the end of the day and i cba to study anymore I just wanna play games, not mess about with my rig's stability... my new opty is still @ stock =/
Thnx. :)
BTW u can try rivatuner. U can mod it to work with a X1900.
Link pls? (of mod, i know where to get rivatuner).
DH OC tool is nice but no autoprofiile @ boot option, and ATITool... well, W1zzard is burnt out and hasnt touched the code in at least a month, even to add A8R32-MVP support to SysTool, which forces me to use speedfan =/
Here u are m8! :)
Looks interesting, but it also looks like R16 might just be the best 7900 and X18/1900 OCing tool around, so I'll hold my horses till the 22nd :)
I'm using 1.5RC18 for my 7900GTX without probs. Just needs a simple mod.
Right, but X1900 OCing is little more complicated, as there is driver-level voltage and frequency shifting that I havent seen fully implemented in any piece of software apart from the R16 changelog.
I know m8. In the past month i've gone from a X1900XT -> XTX -> 7900GTX. ;)
Maybe i'll switch back to x1900xtx if i get bored... :p:
UPDATE:
Got the plugs in yesterday. :banana:
Mounting the card wasn't too hard actually, draining, refilling and bleeding the waterloop wasn't fun on the other hand.
Somehow i managed without damage. :)
Pics:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_1924.jpg
perfect contact. :up:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_1923.jpg
block mounted
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_1920.jpg
backside
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_1917.jpg
1.4Vmod hardwired
Temps were the thing that really shocked me, it took 40 degrees of of my load temps!!! :banana:
Went from 76C load down to 37C, idle is 31C.
CPU temps remained the same, so no real flowrestrictions here.
Overclock was a bit dissapointing, only about 10MHz on the core and 20 on the mem.
Still, the idea of having very good temps now puts me at ease.
I will take some pictures of the complete system later, it's still a bit messy now.
Overall, i'm happy. :)
hell yes! lovely pics! and i love how it fits on the 79gt which is the card i wanna get whenever i stop using my 68gt's!
fits nicely and looks lovely. hopefully no bending of the card too much? its it a lot heavier now? what abou the ambient temps around the card area? when the sys is on and runnin is it cool in there by the card?
No bending at all, the card is completely straight.
The space around the card feels cool due to my airflow, so don't know about that.
Ambient is 22C and yes, the card is a hell of a lot heavier, +550gram to be precise. :D
Unfortunatly, the card is starting to act up on me in 3D.
Lock-ups,black screens, flickering screen, BSOD's, you name it.
I'm positive i didn't kill it, been threating this thing like a baby, nothing strange happend and there's no physical damage.
Removed the Vmod and the waterblock but no love.
Gonna return it tommorow. :(
Sorry to hear about your probs. :(
Hope it will be replaced soon.
Heh, slovenian product, what else have u expected? Pure engineering :P
off topic, but,
why does your 7900GT have Korean written on the MIC sticker, when its
made in China? LoL...
Anyways, nice block, nice temps :D