GTX460 Blocks

[Waterlogged]

Are you telling you never actually opened block and have it cleaned?
And then reassemble it?

Not sure how you came to that conclusion from my statement? I take my blocks apart all the time, I'm saying I've never had a problem getting any of them back together, all it takes is some careful planning.

[bito]

The Gainward GTX460 GS/GLH cards (And most likely the Palit's) have a more standard approx. 53mm x 53mm hole pattern
So the MCW80 GPU cooler should go straight on.

[Guapa5000]

Aqua Computer aquagrafx GTX 460

[Biffa]

Yeah heh funny that
http://forum.aquacomputer.de/weitere...-gtx460-block/

[guilleguillaume]

Aqua Computer aquagrafx GTX 460

uooou!

Beautiful as always. I like the Ek Block and the Aqua Computer Block but for my taste the Koolance it's too much "tunning"

[Church]

I wonder if Swiftech will release some unisink for 460s.

[aoch88]

I'll go with Aqua blocks any day, they are beautiful

[sabe]

I'm hearing that the first EK blocks will be ready in a week or so...

[sabe]

Look what I found:

[Biffa]

Got one coming tommorow

[lowfat]

I finally got my Koolance blocks. The instructions claim to use gray thermal pads yet the only colours included are pink and brown.
EDIT: Maybe they are actually grey. Still not sure why there is pink included though.
Otherwise they look like fantastic blocks.

[NaeKuh]

the gray is the thin one regardless.
They used to come in white! :P

The pink is usually the thick one.

The gray has 2 sides you peal, the pink only has 1.

On the pink i noticed its best to use the white side on the mosfet, and the pink hard side on the block directly. (should you ever have to use the pink one).
The gray is a standard tim pad, and i use it in everything outside of waterblocks as well.

The pink is there when you have a gap.
Not all gpu's will be 100% perfect.
You might have something a tad bit lower then what its normally at.
In this case you will use the pink one.

B4 you hard mount the block, make sure you lay the pads out, and then apply slight pressure where the pads are.
See if you get a imprint.
If not then you need to upgrade your pad to the pink one.

But if u dont touch the pink one, dont freak out, koolance just gives you "excess" incase you need it.

[lowfat]

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Thanks for the explanation.

One more thing if anyone was hoping these are single slot blocks (like me) you may be a tad disappointed. The screws holding the block together stick out a tad making it slightly larger than single slot. If you plan on having a card next to it you will need to insulate the back of the adjacent card (which is what I'll be using the pink thermal pads for).

Sexy things...

[jumper2high]

I'm looking to "submerge" my GTX460 as well with EK's Nickel block, but I was hoping I'd see a few vids or detailed worklogs on mounting the thing first. It is, after all, a fairly new product - lessons are yet to be learned.

[Biffa]

Just put an EK on my 460, easy as is usual with EK blocks, i.e. fiddly standoffs

Otherwise went on smooth.

[jumper2high]

Biffa, did you do any mounting videos or anything like that?

[sabe]

Just put an EK on my 460, easy as is usual with EK blocks, i.e. fiddly standoffs

Otherwise went on smooth.

Mine came with screws that have 6mm long thread and 4mm standoffs. After putting on the washer and taking into account the card thickness, I didn't have any threads left to screw it onto the block, any idea what's going on?

[lowfat]

Mine came with screws that have 6mm long thread and 4mm standoffs. After putting on the washer and taking into account the card thickness, I didn't have any threads left to screw it onto the block, any idea what's going on?

Look at the instructions. Standoffs go on the same side as the block.

[sabe]

Look at the instructions. Standoffs go on the same side as the block.

Of course they should and that has no bearing on the threads left either.

Screw->Washer->Card->Standoff->no threads left. Aren't m3x8 screws supposed to have 8mm of threading? My screws in both packages have only 6mm of threading.

[Waterlogged]

Of course they should and that has no bearing on the threads left either.

Screw->Washer->Card->Standoff->no threads left. Aren't m3x8 screws supposed to have 8mm of threading? My screws in both packages have only 6mm of threading.

There is a +/- tolerance on everything made, what that # is, is dependent upon how mission critical the part is. Also seeing it's a screw (and likely made on a screw machine) it likely took 5-8 seconds to make, now times that by an average work shift of 8 hrs and it quickly adds up to not being able to check each and every last screw that is made so some short/long ones will get through the QA/QC process. In your case though, that seems to bit a good bit short and sounds like it may be a packaging error on EK's part.

[Guapa5000]

Bitspower Black Freezer VG-NGTX460

[Church]

Looks interesting. I hope they won't be priced and won't perform like their 480 blocks relative to others. If they will, highest price for worst cooling .. even more so if it's for cheap gpu, where block price matters so much more .. will simply be disasterous.

[sabe]

There is a +/- tolerance on everything made, what that # is, is dependent upon how mission critical the part is. Also seeing it's a screw (and likely made on a screw machine) it likely took 5-8 seconds to make, now times that by an average work shift of 8 hrs and it quickly adds up to not being able to check each and every last screw that is made so some short/long ones will get through the QA/QC process. In your case though, that seems to bit a good bit short and sounds like it may be a packaging error on EK's part.

4 of the blocks had the same error, I'm surprised I'm the only one on XS with this problem. Anyway I bought some m3x8 screws (real ones!) and its all good.

[Waterlogged]

4 of the blocks had the same error, I'm surprised I'm the only one on XS with this problem. Anyway I bought some m3x8 screws (real ones!) and its all good.

A quick check revealed that m3x6 screws come in boxes of 100. Now 8 screws per block, that box would take care of 12.5 blocks (less if they toss in a spare or two). . .you have 4 of them, which leaves 9.5 blocks. So there are 10 blocks (assuming EK didn't realize there was a problem) floating around out there, the odds of the ppl that buy them being members here as well are pretty high.

Anyway, good to hear it's all good now.

[Biffa]

No problem with screws on mine