Apogee GTX

[NaeKuh]

okey, i have some aweful news for you guys.

As i was running Orthos last night, my board finally decided to kick the bucket.


So i cant get an accurate screenie, because my board wont boot up into windows anymore.

Im fairly sure its the board finally crapping out. Anyhow, i'll see if i can somehow rebuild the OS, or boot her into safe mode, and try to do a thermal load on both cores with a screenie.

But as for now, with the settings above, the last coretemp i took was roughly 41C with a regular apogee loaded, and it was around 39C with the d-tek if i last remember it.



Blah... heres crossing my fingers, and cursing this dayam AR revision. Thank god i have an A1 waiting for on my desk. But stupid ups says 4/4 for my tubes and block to arrive

Anyhow, lemme see if i can work some magic on the board and try to bring it back to life long enough for a quick thermal load.


okey after trying to debug my board for the past i dun know, 1hour and half? im out of time and need to goto work. :P

I managed to get it booted again, by doing a cmos reset, and i took it back to its funky board settings. 3.4ghz see specs above.

The reason why i think its my board is because b4 i flashed her, she was doing orthos @ 3.6ghz perfectly, for over 11 hours. I flashed my board on haste.


LAST UPDATE: Until im back from work :P
Anyhow, she wont do orthos more then 20min. Something on my board causes her to just lock up. As i have said, i have a A1 waiting to get swaped. Just no GTX block to mount. Since i am going to bow it, i cant afford mounting the spare in right now, and wait on the GTX. Bow mounting i heard can be a serious PITA.

a Bit of irony, and im sure Gabe will have a cow. Im going to use a thermaltake BT backplate to help mount my GTX. ahahaha.. who would of thought i would use a thermaltake product on my waterloop :P i guess the sky did fall.

Anyhow the 15 min orthos i was able to load pulled off a 40C max temp on both cores, at 65F ambient intake temp /w a regular apogee. Messured on my battery thermo in the front intake. I have another side intake and i should take a messurement of that since its dictates my second radiator.

Voltage on core is about 1.3625V currently. I wish i could do a 30 min orthos, but you guys will have to be happy with 15 min, until someone with a full work bench can finish the apogeeGTX review.



TO: IanY

Is there a mounting orentation required on the GTX for better performance? i cant see how having water travel down vs sideways would bring any beneifit in performance. I know you have th match the diamond pins when reassembling the block, but do you need to stick with a particular mounting orientation on the GTX?