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

[blazarcher]

Come to think of it, the two blocks (Aquacomputer and Heatkiller) are very similar. I mean just look at what they use for letting water in and out.

The AC,

And the Heatkiller,

WOW, really hard to tell the two apart! - Notice the shape of the contact area. Same shaped GPU area, same opening for the capacitor, and even the SAME DESIGN (look at the MEM contact points)


Here's the Aquacomputer, I think xD

And the HeatKiller,

See the resemblance? Yeah very similar indeed, take a look at where the water enters and exits, wow same shape too I'd say.

Both look the same when you look at the VRM's too. Although here we see some difference. First the Heatkiller has different way of cooling the VRM's with several different paths for water to go through. So as water enters the VRM area, it splits, and when it's moving to the GPU, it also splits.


As for the Aquacomputer block, a bit more "plain". Though the water seems to "stay longer" in the VRM area.



Take note of the grooves effectively forcing water to travel through several paths just like the Heatkiller to cool the VRM's more effectively. But see how the two differ. And here's another look:



My money's on the AC, it definitely looks better and should perform about the same.





**Switched to the Regular AC block, can't find it anywhere + It's a more fair comparison**