Apogee GTX

[NaeKuh]

Well, lemme me straight up and front with you guys. I am not a swiftech fan boy, nor have i shown any favoritism to one block.

I am a waterblock whore. I have a Storm rev.2, TDX, Apogee, ApogeeGT, D-tek Fusion, and my new addition the ApogeeGTX.


As i said i havent finished my testing yet. I want to give my system a few days for the coolant to settle, and all the last min bubbles to disapate. Remember i did a entire mobo swap as well as relooping my entire system, with the addition of 2 extra blocks on my loop. And with these 2 blocks added, the temps were still LOWER then the d-tek fusion. I think this itself should merit something.

Anyhow somewhere last night she blue screened after about 5 hours. I dont know exactly why or where, but i need to keep my voltage at 1.425 to do an accurate comparision /w my D-tek config i used a while back.

But i can tell you guys some facts, and these are totally unbais statements.

1. bowing does improve performance, and i mean by a lot where its noticible.
2. I seriously wouldnt recomend telling a newbie to buy a GTX or a GT and bow the block, and mount it.
3. If your also running a multi block design with a single pump. < DDC-2 /w petratop. I highly advise you using a D-tek.

When i was messing with it, i turned off one of my pumps, and my temps shot up nearly 8C. The d-tek had less of a delta with 1 pump going. i think it was around a delta of 5-6C.

So on a single pump, i think its safe to say, this block would perform a TAD bit better then the d-tek provided your cooling just the CPU.


Anyhow, lemem figure out why she bluescreened last night at 5 hours. I think it was my ram timings. I was tweeking them last night b4 i went to bed.


Lastly, i wouldnt trust Nmonitor to messure any temps but my video cards, and NB/SB. I just displayed them because my evga board plays nicely with ntune. It does show accurate voltage and CPU settings. I always post a CoreTemp next to anything i post, because this seems to get the fan boys of one block, to accept my findings.

So, no, anyone that doesnt use coretemp, or TAT to monitor temps, to me = retarded.

Common, my coretemp says 37C while nview says 53C that itself should tell you a lot.


Also i think i failed to mention that both my gfx cards are overvolted to 1.5V i havent gotten around to push them to 700mhz @ SLI yet. Once i do that, were also in a new ballgame since my loop isnt independant.


But if you guys are really finding the ultimate waterblock, Its made by swiftech, and its called the MCW6500T :P aka there TEC block.