4870 Waterblock Options

[ColonelCain]

Currently the XFX 4870 is reference design.

[Lu(ky]

Currently the XFX 4870 is reference design.

cool thanks

[Skippman]

Ok, so I'll have to use just a GPU only cooler like the Swiftech MCW60 since my board is non-refrence. Anyone here running just a MCW60 w/ RAM sinks? How about two of them in series? Just trying to gauge what I can expect from using them.

[Zehnsucht]

^ It's triple rad, not tripple

Anyway, I'm going to mount my MCW-60 on my 4870, but keeping the stock cooler plate +fan to cool the RAMs and VRMs.

[tsukuyomi]

Ok, so I'll have to use just a GPU only cooler like the Swiftech MCW60 since my board is non-refrence. Anyone here running just a MCW60 w/ RAM sinks? How about two of them in series? Just trying to gauge what I can expect from using them.

Hmm... i don't know about the Koolance or XSPX(sp) blocks but the Ek 4870 block can be easily modified to fit in the non-reference 4870.

I have the Asus Dark Knight 4870 1GB non reference board i installed the EK 4870 Block from Sidewinders all i did was dremel out the part where the mosfet cooler gets attached as shown here by PCFlip i left the stock mosfet cooler on, that is just cooled by the air circulation of the case(although my case does have a (fan)120L near the videocard area running around 900-1000 rpm i think.

One problem i had when i first installed the block is that since it has no stand offs i bow/bended the card a little and it didn't work(properly but i caught it right away and removed the card, went to home depot and bought a few bags of 5/32 nylon washers glued 2 together with 1 dot(as in small amount) of crazy glue and used them as my stand offs put a set on every hole and tada! problem solve(also i kept a better track of the mount but stand off helped quite a bit.


i went from having GPU Diode(DispIO)58C, GPU Diode(MemIO)70C, GPU Diode(Shader)60C @ 22 Ambient( please note that this is with GPU fan set manually to 100%) to GPU Diode(DispIO)36C, GPU Diode(MemIO)47C, GPU Diode(Shader)35C under load my temps never go above 42-50-41 vs 94-106-98 when it was with the asus stock cooler+100% fan .

One thing that i find weird is how everest never tells me the temp of my Power Mosfet , could it be that asus removed the temp sensor fromt here or is one of the sensors posted above the power mosfet?

btw i am using the latest everest 5.0000.1664.

[InfinityNX]

thanks! should I be worried about the MCW60-4870 not cooling anything? I really like the block, but if it isn't cooling something, then i'd rather go with a full coverage block. I dont want to have to put a fan blowing over it or something.

bump!

[eKirts]

Hey gang...

so i have these two Diamond HD4870 1GB cards that i want to watercool with full cover blocks, but i dont know if any of the options out there will work, and need some input.... also would be wondering if Ek would be willing to manufacture an addon like they did with the Club and Golden samples cards...

here some pics... as you can see the large caps go all the way to the top of the board... but everything else seems to be similar...




thanks in advance...

[scamps]

Perhaps the EK-FC with Vers. 3 alublock (Sapphire-version) could fit, but ...
http://ekwaterblocks.com/shop/popup_...ID=330&invis=1

Does anybody know a HD4870 with black PCB in vers. 2 ???
The XFXs seem to be vers. 1 ...

[eKirts]

Perhaps the EK-FC with Vers. 3 alublock (Sapphire-version) could fit, but ...
http://ekwaterblocks.com/shop/popup_...ID=330&invis=1

maybe... i was looking at that earlier but i personally don't think it will work =\

[glide 1]

Hi all, ide like to know which version of the 4870 this card is. Still undecided whether to get a full cover block or the swiftec 4870 block.
http://www.palit.biz/main/vgapro.php?id=969

Edit: ok i just found out that it is the Non Reference GS ver. So can someone recommend me a full cover block for this? Will the Swiftech be good enough or would i need a few additional mosfet sinks?

thanks in advance.

[ArcticOC]

Not shure if you guys know, But..

..a really easy way to make shure you get a 1.edition reference design card is to order a 4870 with displayport. NON reference cards have 2 x DVI.

[dubber]

Hey gang...

so i have these two Diamond HD4870 1GB cards that i want to watercool with full cover blocks, but i dont know if any of the options out there will work, and need some input.... also would be wondering if Ek would be willing to manufacture an addon like they did with the Club and Golden samples cards...

here some pics... as you can see the large caps go all the way to the top of the board... but everything else seems to be similar...




thanks in advance...

Hello,

I have just contacted ek's support for my powercolor 4870 cards which seem to be the same design. EK refers to it as Refference design V2 and what they suggested me is that I combine this with this kit.

Hope that was helpful!

[truehighroller]

So my question is this. What ever happened to having to cool this or these chips refrenced in this post? Do these need to be cooled because I see pictures on here where people are not cooling them?

This is the post I am refering to where the chips are mentioned.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...9&postcount=65



Thanks ahead of time.




Edit:


No one answered me but, I was going to try better cooling on the main controller chip any way. I went ahead and faced a nice powerfull not to loud I think,, 40mm fan in between my case and the area of this main controller chip and all last night I had no issues at all with this over heating black screen then reboot issue I was having. I would then have to answer my own question by saying yes these chips mentioned need better cooling as well.

[vampalan]

So my question is this. What ever happened to having to cool this or these chips refrenced in this post? Do these need to be cooled because I see pictures on here where people are not cooling them?

This is the post I am refering to where the chips are mentioned.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...9&postcount=65

Edit:

No one answered me ..edit..

I dont think anyone had any problems, I never did anyways and I use the 4870 for folding sometimes too.. most of the time now.

[Vinas]

Hopefully he didn't wait 8 months for this reply