Swiftech Releases Komodo HD5800 F/C Waterblock For ATI

[dejanh]

Did you clean the tape off really well off of the waterblock, along with the clear gooey leftover?

Yep all of the pad, all of the tape, all of it period. I've done it twice over, mounting problems are out of the question now. There is physically no way the block is gonna get any tighter to the graphics board.

I really want to get Gabe's comment on this but most of all I want to see what happens with the incoming Asus EAH5850. I am currently running MSI R5850. I know that there has been issues in the past with HD5970 cards where certain components on the cards sat higher/lower than usual. These did not happen to be MSI cards but still, I am not excluding anything at this point. I cannot believe that Gabe would have missed this in design so I want to get his comment...then again, who knows. I will have to measure the thickness of both blocks now too, the one that is mounted and the one that is in the box still.

I wonder if anyone else with the Komodo and paste instead of the tape would be willing to do some Furmark 1.8.0 action at 1920x1200 with 8x AA. Just to point out too that running Kombustor instead of Furmark is not the same thing. The electrical current (amp) load on the VRMs is much higher with Furmark 1.8.0 and above settings than that of Kombustor. At least that's what I have observed.

Edit: I powered down the system and measured the thickness of the mounted block with the standoff vs. the thickness of the block with the standoff that is still in the box. There is a total of 0.35mm-0.4mm difference in thickness between the two blocks. This could be the reason for such awful VRM temps. The mounted block is ~15.55mm thick measured with a digital caliper from the top side of the block to the top of the standoff, and the one that is still in the box measures ~15.2mm from the top side of the block to the top of the standoff. Considering that we are dealing with very fine measurements here this could make all the difference between the VRMs cooling or not. Also note that I re-did the measurements several times and they always come out to within 0.05mm so the difference of >0.3mm is definitely there.