Hopefully someone with some knowledge still reads this thread. Anyway, I bowed my Apogee GT using the supplied o-ring, I am running into two problems currently and need some suggestions.
1 - I have remounted the water block twice and still I get 3 cores at one temp and 1 five degrees higher. I tried adjusting the screws to see if I could change the spread and that didn't work, so any thoughts?
2 - I noticed when I was remounting it the Artic Silver was for the most part spread down the middle from top to bottom with very little on the outside, it would almost seem as though my chip was bowed downward, but since I lapped it and verified it was truly flat I know this isn't the case. From the looks of it I would assume that the waterblock is bowed oppisite to what it should be. Is this possible? I didn't lap it before bowing it so it just has the same finish it came with which is hard to verify that it was bowed afterwards. The mount that came with the waterblock is not the type that has springs, instead it has screws that screw into the backplate. Should I swap this out with screws that mount from behind the MB and use springs with nuts to hold it down? If so, how? Or should I just get a different waterblock like the EK?
Here is a link to the mounting instructions so you can see what I am talking about when I say it doesn't use springs:
http://swiftech.com/products/install...75bckplate.pdf
Thanks,
Utnorris
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