Have you heard anything about the Aqua tuning blocks? I was looking to get one of those Bit unsure of the EK...
Have you heard anything about the Aqua tuning blocks? I was looking to get one of those Bit unsure of the EK...
Just stambled uppon this
PowerColor with block from EK
Nice!!
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It's really not all that badly priced either. Like $115 extra which is pretty close to the right price if you were to do it yourself. I wonder if it's a reference design pcb? I would think it would be to fit the EK block. I would want that verified before purchasing to make sure the volt-mod apps will work on it.
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that picture does look like a really bad photoshop
No more temperature piccies? I'm about to go 5970 + EK Waterblocks and was concerned about the VRM issue. Is this solved at last?
Thanks.
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Even Crysis doesn't heat the VRMs up nearly as much as Furmark does. So the real world temperatures end up being adequate.
Here's the EK block at 1.3v with 8 degree celcius water temperature. My VRMs have about a 70c rise over the water temperature near them. At stock speeds the VRM temperatures are more than halved.
Thank you Romir, this was exactly what i was after. In game temperature is all i care about and it seems pretty nice.
It also depends on the WC system but i got that covered
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I have the 5970 + EK nickel block. I ran furmark 1.8 dual gpu, 1650x1050 with 8 x msaa. I only get temps of 35C on VRMs. But my card is running 900/1200 @ 1,149v only. Stock cpu for now. Some smal issues i'm trying to figure out of.
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Great temps indeed. The nickel-plated EK waterblock is the one i ordered, it should be here before the card, heh. What small issues are you referring to, in-game issues or...?
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Well the block\block i have have the dipp inn them. My vrm's have the same hight, so i put two pads on one an two on the other. Same thickness on one side and a thinner one on the other one. Works like a charm..
No my problems are window related i think.. Not sure.. But it stops at 950/1260/1,149v when the cpu q9650 is @ 4,5ghz. Think thats the max for my asus card. More volt = restart. 960 on core clock = restart..
Hope the block works just as well on my saphire card..
This is the block and mounted on the card,
CPU: Q9650 MOBO: Asus P5E64 WS EVOLUTION PSU: OCZ MOD X STREAM 900W
GPU: HIS HD 4870x2 Coolance Water cooling RAM: 4x1gb OCZ DDR3 Platinum 1600 7-6-6-20
CPU COOLER: Swiftech GTZ waterblock HD: WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA 3,5"
OPTICAL: Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7203S CASE: Nexus NZXT
Ah ok
Wow, that backplate is fantastic.
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what about xspc razor for 5970? it's quite price competitive but i have not found any info on performance. anyone have it? seen it's internals?
anyone know where to buy one of those powercolor 5970 lcs ????
Could someone recommend me a FC block for the 5970 4gb card? Its this 1 in particular: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/gra.../11/sapphire/1
Also a good Xfire link solution for the 2 cards. These will go on an Asus R3E.
Thanks in advance
Well as you can see those are max temps. And the room temp was 20-21C maybe. Not higher. And how long the test ran i don't remember. 30min-1hour i think.. Temps dont get high with stability test and xtreme burn on, if you run 8x MSAA. Try running without it. Then my temps went to 100+ after 5 mins and where rising still.
CPU: Q9650 MOBO: Asus P5E64 WS EVOLUTION PSU: OCZ MOD X STREAM 900W
GPU: HIS HD 4870x2 Coolance Water cooling RAM: 4x1gb OCZ DDR3 Platinum 1600 7-6-6-20
CPU COOLER: Swiftech GTZ waterblock HD: WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA 3,5"
OPTICAL: Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7203S CASE: Nexus NZXT
Have you checked you're vrm chipps if they are the same hight? And if the waterblock has a hight difference where the vrm chipps are??
When i mounted the block with level vrms and difference in block, i put on the thermal pad that is inn the instructions and then added an extra thin one where the hight difference was on the block.
I mounted first with just one pad and there was imprint on only the one side. So i added a thin one on the other side and put it back on.
I'm planing on putting on new thermal paste soon, then i'll check both my blocks and pads.
CPU: Q9650 MOBO: Asus P5E64 WS EVOLUTION PSU: OCZ MOD X STREAM 900W
GPU: HIS HD 4870x2 Coolance Water cooling RAM: 4x1gb OCZ DDR3 Platinum 1600 7-6-6-20
CPU COOLER: Swiftech GTZ waterblock HD: WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA 3,5"
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