9800GX2 Water Blocks...

[gmcg]

gmcg
i understand what you're saying and i agree that finish and flatness combined give best results

why don't you polish the face of the block yourself on a piece of glass or something
it won't be that hard just use 300-600-800 grit paper and you're done

Yes, Sir! Actually I did it already using a brass polish. It took a bit more time, but the polished surface is still perfectly flat as it was before - I can barely see the rest of machine traces on the surface and they are equal everywhere. I would say I changed from +/-100 micron surface quality to like +/-10 micron, may be a bit more, but not much.

Also I went today to a local ace hardware store , bought some nylon spacers, made and installed the required ones, so for now I am quite sure that the water block will not move while PCBs are bowed just a little bit. I have found a way to support it's weight also, therefore I've decided to change my mind and don't want to sell it anymore, first of all because I am really tired to wait and wait and want to finish my rig, second because the water block is quite good in results, as we can see on the pictures above, and third because it is non-restrictive (I can say that), the last point is pretty important for me using D5 instead of DDC2.

I didn't get a PM from Australia anyway

P.S. Some pictures will be posted a bit later.