Chilled Swiftech Stealth + Single 8800 Ultra

[Senater_Cache]

nice review fugger. btw, what tubing? looks a bit ahazy like tygon 2075.

[Cupcake]

I will guess primochill cause it looks similar but does it matter ?

[wittekakker]

will it fit on the new g92 9800 coming out in nov,if so i might grab 1 of those blocks for my loop.i been eyeing em up hardcore.but it must be confirmed fit for the g92.can u find out anything on that fugger?...anyone?

good review\pics btw

Lol, it's quite a little bit too early to know if it will fit, there hasn't been made a single card at this moment. Though, the MCW-60 will perform on par with Swiftech's STEALTH block, and it could be possible that it is compatible with G90, and if the socket changes Swiftech can always bring out a socket adapter. This is speculation, no pure facts!

[Charles Wirth]

SLI numbers coming up with compare vs Koolance.

[killert]

SLI numbers coming up with compare vs Koolance.

What Koolance block?

[Charles Wirth]

Model VID-282, thats for another thread.

[NightRaven]

excellent temps u have there and wow i wished my country had been dryer.. 85% to 95% humidity isnt all that good for low temps

did u try vmodding it yet?

[OPPAINTER]

I guess the tape is ok. I've a general preference for the thermal transfer of real pastes vs tapes, but I suppose the memory doesn't put tons of heat.

To me it's a statement on the manufacturing tolerances that they couldn't get the appropriate contact without tape. But counter to that thinking is that no one really seems able to do that.

Swiftech got the REV1 about perfect for the memory, no need for tape.

The reason for the tape on Rev2 is because the copper base is now bowed. Being bowed raises the hieght of the rest of the block off of the mem chips, so now we have tape.
That simple

OPP

[noobzed]

is there any screw near the ram ?

[Charles Wirth]

Several depending on how near you mean. looked at images?

[maxine]

Let´s see the SLI numbers!.
Fugger, do you plan voltmod this cards?.

[noobzed]

impossible to replace bubble pad by a better thermal paste like as5 ?

[Mekrel]

On revision two yes it is impossible to replace the thermal pad with any type of TIM.

Revision two utilises a thicker o-ring between top and block base to give it a bow and more pressure on the surface of the G80 IHS.

The downside is, this lifts the block off the memory chips slightly - hence the need for a thermal pad.

[s54///m3]

I have an 8800 ultra (612/1080). Got the Stealth Rev. 2 and have been running (720/1161, 1781 shader) speeds stable since installed, BF2 crysis beta, MOHA, etc. Idle 38 C, load 42-47 C. My goal was run better than the Leadtek Leviathon and surpassed it. I can get the core up to 760 but crashes upon load. Could this be because of the shader going up to much? Can the newest rivatuner set shader clock, I hate vista?

[wittekakker]

No it can't, but doing a bios mod aint that hard to do.

[Mekrel]

The newest Rivatuner can set shader clock, it's in the power user registry options.

You set a ratio between core and shader clock. Just lower the ratio and the shader clock won't scale as high with the core clock.

[JargonGR]

My SLIed 8800GTX can do 675 Core Clock (on Riva tuner) and 1029 memory without volt mods. I have also set the Shader at 1600Mhz and runs 100% stable. All is water cooled ofc. So shouldn't the ultra do a bit higher on the core and shader?

I am using Apogees 1U for the chip and Swiftech ramsinks on anything else.

[TheGoat Eater]

I love chilled air for graphics cooling - the way my computer is setup my AC unit (for apartment) is pretty much ducted strait to the Testing PC - so whenever I bench I just crank the AC and as I have been benching passive cards I have a 120mm Yate Loon blowing over them so it drops the temps that much more!

FUGGER I remember seeing you had a AC unit for one of those ungodly PCMARK benches and got the idea to invest in a portable AC unit but I need more graphics cards so that is on hold and I guess the way it is placed I could call my CPU cooling chilled water cooling as I can get fairly high clocks when I turn on the AC

sorry about getting away/ rambling --- as always FUGGER great write up and bench plus again THANKS FOR THE SITE