Q: where would an american get one of these blocks? ???
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Q: where would an american get one of these blocks? ???
Order direct. His shipping is so cheap a pair of his barbs costs less with shipping than getting a pair from gangerden...
Everything went fine, got a new 7900GT. :banana:
Did the 1.4Vgpu mod right away, the core is stable up to 709MHz with just 1.4V!!
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1148130117
The waterblock works superb, 30C idle, 36C load, oc went from 685MHz with the stock cooler to 709MHz with the EK FC79. :)
The mem needs a bit of burn in, it's not 100% stable at 1800MHz but benchable.
nice!
planning on more V?
Off course. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by eXa
Nice results zeus! :)
Piece of art... :)
Don't kill the card (again) though ;)
Let's hope so mate. ;)
Here's a final pic of the block up and running:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMG_1943.jpg
That is a beautiful block Zeus. I might have to check out EK, they seem to have some really nice stuff. The base of the block looks outstanding.
EKs are like waterblock pr0n :D
They surely are! :lol:
ive got a 7900gt i bought from Hong Kong, so i dont want any faliures. i think the fact it doesnt use spring loaded fixings is the problem. so although its only £49 compared to £85, here in the UK, i might just get a new lid for my old Danger Den Maze 4 GPU.
Ill take my EK over any DD full cover pos any day tbh...
trouble is i cant aford any dead card situations and if it wasnt for the fact the standard fan is so noisy id leave it alone. i think some card faliures are due to the memory being pressed too hard, as there bga solder pads underneath the chips.
If your 7900GT is from Leadtek like your sig suggests, RMA services are via Leadtek, so no worries there.
I don't know what you mean by failures due to the RAM being pressed too hard, it's BGA chips which means Ball Grid Array.
So basically there 's no pins but balls instead, how do you think pushing the the balls onto the PCB would lead to a failure?
I don't get that really.
Yeah, the only way to break is to push so hard you crush something, and that can only really happen with the mosfets.. and that has the same chance of happening with the DD blocks.
The problem that Zeus had was that card didn't take the pressure of voltmod.Quote:
Originally Posted by cypher007
Crediki problem was about putting too much pressure on one power reg. If you have 7900 GTX card there is much less chance that you will damage the Power regs.
:fact:
Does this block impact pressure/flow much? What kind of pump are you using?
I havent seen any impact on CPU temps since i switched from my maze 4. pump is in sig.
im running a 7900GT so does that mean i might crush the mosfet? i thought the mosfet was only on the GTX cards. the reason im worried is that some companies (ASUS) get all funny about people buying stuff in one country and then RMA'ing it from another country.
You have a 7900GT which means the VGA block is without the mosfetcooling, just like in the pictures.
I don't understand your concern about RMA policy, a videocard made by Asus for example has the same warrenty in the UK as in Hong Kong no?
apparently it doesnt. before i bought my motherboard in Hong Kong i asked Asus and they said id have to send it back to the retailer in Hong Kong :stick: . so i bought the DFI CFX3200, it seemed a better overclocker anyway, plus when i emailed them they said on this occasion they would honour the warranty from the UK.
cant get this ek-fc79 to work correctly, no matter how many times i mount it to my 7900gt i get artifacts. oh and at one point when i thought the card was screwed i contacted leadtek europe who said:
Thank you for your inquiry
The VGA board you owned was for using in Hong Kong and China only.
The warranty for we released VGA items is not global, so if the user got VGA card defeated to run by hardware faulty, he should request RMA service for it through the original distributor oversea.
The contact info is as follow:
support@kingfung.com.hk
sales@kingfung.com.hk
Tel: 852-2686 8616
so dont buy leadtek if you plan on moving country :slapass: . anyway do you guys think i could run this block with just the core coated in artic silver 5? as every time i use the artic silver ceramique on the ram chips i get artifacts. so was just gonna leave the ram chips clean against the clean waterblock. or could i use artic silver 5 on the ram chips also? though i heard this screws them up.
Manufacturer's warranty tends to rarely extend to UK if that manufacturer is in China / Taiwan / Japan etc or NorthAmerica. Always has to go to the shop you bought it from... and they're not obliged to provide you with any warranty outside of the country of purchase.
If you want warranty, buy from a UK outlet... only way it works when it comes to hardware...
cypher I had the same problems a few months ago with my 7800 GTX and the FC block...check there is good contact with all the rams cause I have an issue with ram. One ram chip was a little bit too low and it has no contact with the block.
Regards,
Primoz