4870 Waterblock Options

[gabe]

ok i fired up the card today. Not so good. With ram sinks and mosfet sinks the card crashes 30 seconds into any 3d. The gpu itself was idling at 38 degrees with the Aquaxtreme MP-1 waterblock and 43 degrees at full load.

I reinstalled the factory heatsink over the ram and vrm's, it helped. Card was able to run stably, but with only passive cooling the metal plate was getting VERY hot really fast.

Conclusion, I will not be running any non full cover waterblocks on this card, they are just too hot.

Will be ordering some EK blocks when they arrive state side.

How about something like this?

If you want, email me your address (gabe@swiftech.com) , I'll send you some samples to try out and report result on this forum.