Skinnee Labs - GTX480 Block Round-Up (working thread)

[skinnee]

Very glad to hear it all worked out and you're happy with your card+block!

[Systemlord]

I just finished my water cooling system in my sig, my GTX 480 with the EK block idles at 28-36C (night/day) at room temp 73F. I am amazed at the very strong water turbulence in the top of my res, I had to fill it a few milimeters from the top so that the turbulence wouldn't create bubbles that would otherwise travel through my water cooling loop. Time to start overclocking!

@Skinnee:

Hi Skinnee, I know you have an estimator for flow rates that does not cover the GTX480 radiator so what is your best guess at my flow rates given the extreme turbulence in my res? I need to get a good quality flow rate meter!

-Systemlord

[skinnee]

Er

I'd have a better chance at splitting the atom than knowing your flow rate from your text description of turbulence in your reservoir.

[bundymania]

Hello Guys,

I´ve got a Testsample from the new Innovatek GTX480 Waterblock, so you can have a look at some internals from this expensive block:











http://www.aquatuning.de/product_inf...c-GTX-480.html

[Systemlord]

Hello Guys,

I´ve got a Testsample from the new Innovatek GTX480 Waterblock, so you can have a look at some internals from this expensive block:

Interesting design, can't wait to see its actual performance!

[ghent915]

That looks like the old Storm series blocks. They were awesome IIRC for monolithic cores (which today's GPU's are, but CPU's are not).
Very curious to see what happens.

[Alexandr0s]

Wow, what an awesome yet very weird design. I'd really like to see how it performs .

[skinnee]

1 word...

Aluminum.

[Church]

Those compression fittings on this block look wierdly not leveled, as in they were some 15deg angled fittings.
Pitty about aluminium though, i doubt to see customers buying top hardware, which gtx480 are, and buying waterblocks where manufacturer has skimped on block material for less weight/cheaper manufacturing. Otherwise block inner structure looks interesting.

[ForceFed_B16A]

Aluminum.

Fail... Maybe the final product will be all copper, or nickel plated?

[Systemlord]

1 word...

Aluminum.

Aluminum, thats no good! There are many additives that people use to get their water cooling system free from water born growth, most of these additives like PT Nuke will eat aluminum for breakfast!

[Waterlogged]

Where oh where do I begin...or maybe it's better if I don't?

[skinnee]

...or maybe it's better if I don't?

That's why I posted what I did, no reason to bust out the soap boxes. "Move along, nothing to see here." comes to mind.

[zeroibis]

That's why I posted what I did, no reason to bust out the soap boxes. "Move along, nothing to see here." comes to mind.

When I saw your first post I was just like, oh well I guess this discussion is over while at the same time going too bad maybe the production model is not AL.

[bundymania]

Fail... Maybe the final product will be all copper, or nickel plated?

That would be nice but...no... this IS the final 200 Euro Waterblock, what you see above Only the core is nickel plated copper.
There is a discussion since many years about the inno blocks - it´s because of the prices and why they still using Alu


There is afaik 1 test available, where this block is included.

It´s not in english, but i´m sure you can check out the results charts -> Last Place in GPU Temp :

http://www.overclockingstation.de/in...tid=487&page=9


@churchy: The pic with those EK fittings is a demonstration to show you guys, that 16/10mm (5/8") fittings are to big for this block without using adapters

[Church]

bundymania: If it's common to all innovatek waterblocks, it looks like someone@innovatek that makes decisions about material choice is not doing his job at studying market / target customers properly. LC is such a niche, where most users are tech savy enough with doing their homework about reading on LC & possible issues topic. So i'm guessing that alu instead of copper automatically results in just 1/5 (who knows, maybe even less) of sold block volume that could have been, as aluminium blocks is like big red stop sign for many LC-ers out there. Era of zalman aluminium waterblocks has passed long time ago.

[UrbanSmooth]

Zalman, LOL!

[mlee49]

Hey Skinnee, would two blocks work in SLI ok? Specifically a Heatkiller and Aquagrafx?

I have the 470 Aquagrafx block already and theres on FS for $85 NIB but dont want to commit if they dont fit.

[Shoggy]

We have special adapters for these blocks so that should be no problem at all

From simple SLI...


...up to 7 cards with the large adapter:

[kinghong1970]

Jeebus Shoggy, that looks sick!