First G80 (8800GTX/GTS) liquidcooler

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Originally Posted by thunderstruck!

Ramsinks and airflow are already overkill. I'm been running my card for over a year without any sinks on it. The chips are cool when gaming. Just point a 120mm fan at it and that's enough.

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Enough for running at stock? I vmod my stuff ;)

My 7800GTX512s ram gets hot enough to scald you if you touch the ram sinks.

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Originally Posted by thunderstruck!

Ramsinks and airflow are already overkill. I'm been running my card for over a year without any sinks on it. The chips are cool when gaming. Just point a 120mm fan at it and that's enough.

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and your card is? kinda moots your point if you have a 6200 with DDR, lol:p:

seriously though, airflow is NOT enough for an overclocked card. my 7900GS with ocz bga sinks and 3x80mm fans blowing over it only keeps them moderately cool. and i havent even vddq modded it yet.

same way with my x800pro.

There are a few manufacturers selling 8800's with a danger den waterblock - ocuk have the bfg ones in stock - albeit at a hefty price. The waterblocks look to be copper at least, so may be a better choice.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/8800_Series.html

edit: also avaliable in the states:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:1839|&Sort=1

That looks better. Acetal top with copper bottom. Hopefully DD and Eddy will get their blocks released soon.

Not good- Either use all copper, or don't make one. All watercooling setups use copper C110 nowadays. Nice idea, poor design/implementation.

I personally feel DD will release an excellent full block, as they have in the past for graphics cards- Take a hint, use copper :)

SOME CRAZY GERMANS from AwardFabrik.de have shown the world's the first waterblock for the yet-to-be-launched 8800 series.

The prototype comes from the company named SilenX, and it looks menacing. Preliminary testing has relealed that the temperature of the GPU drops sharply by 30 degrees Celsius, from 81-85C down to a 50C range. Overclocking scores also show significant improvement.


Before the waterblock was installed, the GPU was running in high 90s at a 625MHz clock. With the watercooler you can enjoy a 25degC lower temperature and a stable clock of 660MHz for the GPU, which is almost 100 MHz faster than a default clock.

Of course, getting a GPU to run at 660MHz yields in Shader clock of over 1.GHz (a 90nm part with almost 700 million transistors has parts that run at 1.5GHz) and not using AMD or Intel transistor technologies only gives a tribute to engineers at TSMC and Nvidia, who created a small semico miracle.


The reason the cooler works so well is its backside. While the front looks pretty much like many of the waterblocks out there, turning the back reveals the German precision in designing this monster. All of the elements on the PCB are cooled: the G80 GPU, Samsung GDDR3 memory, nV I/O chip and the power regulation.

This enables the G80 PCB to become a warm-to-touch instead of scorching-hot board, especially on the backside. The values we mentioned earlier are for the GPU alone, while the Windows thermal monitoring did not show a sharp decline in the temperature of power regulation, which in the end greatly reduce the stress on the PCB and will probably lead to a longer life of the board.

The cooler will be available soon, and can be ordered using our complementary L'INQ. We're welcoming a test unit, so that we can either confirm or negate the scores in independent testing.

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Originally Posted by Metroid

SOME CRAZY GERMANS from AwardFabrik.de have shown the world's the first waterblock for the yet-to-be-launched 8800 series.

The prototype comes from the company named SilenX, and it looks menacing. Preliminary testing has relealed that the temperature of the GPU drops sharply by 30 degrees Celsius, from 81-85C down to a 50C range. Overclocking scores also show significant improvement.


Before the waterblock was installed, the GPU was running in high 90s at a 625MHz clock. With the watercooler you can enjoy a 25degC lower temperature and a stable clock of 660MHz for the GPU, which is almost 100 MHz faster than a default clock.

Of course, getting a GPU to run at 660MHz yields in Shader clock of over 1.GHz (a 90nm part with almost 700 million transistors has parts that run at 1.5GHz) and not using AMD or Intel transistor technologies only gives a tribute to engineers at TSMC and Nvidia, who created a small semico miracle.


The reason the cooler works so well is its backside. While the front looks pretty much like many of the waterblocks out there, turning the back reveals the German precision in designing this monster. All of the elements on the PCB are cooled: the G80 GPU, Samsung GDDR3 memory, nV I/O chip and the power regulation.

This enables the G80 PCB to become a warm-to-touch instead of scorching-hot board, especially on the backside. The values we mentioned earlier are for the GPU alone, while the Windows thermal monitoring did not show a sharp decline in the temperature of power regulation, which in the end greatly reduce the stress on the PCB and will probably lead to a longer life of the board.

The cooler will be available soon, and can be ordered using our complementary L'INQ. We're welcoming a test unit, so that we can either confirm or negate the scores in independent testing.

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...Inquirer, so take it with a grain of salt...I don't doubt the product release, only the temperature drop claims.

I'll wait for some test results from a trusted site, say here or OCN :)

New Rev has arrived:

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/2...argevj6ng6.jpg

isnt this the stock bfg one?

no it's not Kohan
http://www.dangerden.com/news.php
http://www.dangerden.com/images/8800...front_600w.gif

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Danger Den working in conjunction with BFG Technologies developed this extreme watercooling solution shown at the NVIDIA launch party / GeForce LAN3.

BFG Technologies and Danger Den developed this 8800GTX waterblock that features:

* 1/2", 3/8", and 1/4" Tubing Support with the G 1/4 BSPP Thread
* Single Slot Cooling solution (Only BFG Tech has the Single Slot Adaptor)
* Copper and Delrin design for extended life
* Multiple fitting locations for easy tube routing (Prepped for SLI)
* Of course SLI Compatible
* When purchased through BFG Technologies receive their industry leading True Lifetime Warranty


Availability - Soon

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holy shikes, the BFG one is Danger Den's?

I want to see some comparisons between the BFG (DD) one and the slimeX-whatever

and i want to see the guts of the bfg one.

and I want all this done yesterday, before breakfast ...with eggs!

bfg = copper
silenx = aluminum

BOTH = Bunch of melted pop cans

So who else made em?

I found this Danger Den full coverage block over at NCIX. It is the same one that is on the BFG wc'ed 8800 GTX. They have it for about $140 US. Not in stock yet, but due within 10 days - 2 weeks. Link: here

$140?!! It better come with a pump, tubing. radiator, some kick-ass fans!! :eek:


Unless you got a card for free, the only logical solution is to buy the BFG one

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Originally Posted by KoHaN69

$140?!! It better come with a pump, tubing. radiator, some kick-ass fans!! :eek:


Unless you got a card for free, the only logical solution is to buy the BFG one

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Do you understand how much copper is takes to make these full cover blocks? You find the thickest point on the block, the widest and the longest points. You need a solid block with atleast those dimensions to make one block. Thats a a costly piece of copper. You've seen the news where people are stealing copper pipping from AC units to sell to scrap metal places. Copper is expensive, so that means full copper blocks are expensive. And dont forget about the machining time. Copper takes alot longer to machine than aluminum.

I understand the cost of copper and manufacturing, but nevertheless, it's a high price for a waterblock.

And since the BFG watercooled 8800 is $850+ , a regular 8800 + $140 isnt too bad.