Skinnee Labs - GTX480 Block Round-Up (working thread)

[skinnee]

EK, DD, BitsPower(PowerColor), and Swiftech(EVGA HydroCopper) left AFAIK.

what about Watercool HK..

+1, any news from Watercool HK?

We contacted the companies listed below (alphabetical order) all together in one large communication to keep everyone on the same page.

Aqua Computer, Bitspower, Danger Den, EK, Koolance, Swiftech/EVGA, XSPC, and Watercool

We received confirmation from all but Watercool, no email response what so ever. Another communication will go out the first week in May to the same recipients who were sent the first email confirming the test schedule. We had to give some additional time for all companies to ramp up production and stock for the blocks, additionally there needs to be stock of the GTX480's as well just in case something goes wrong with testing and if you've looked for GTX480's in the past couple days, there are none to be had.

But, I'm going to keep this thread updated as much as possible with photos and everything else and will probably even share the pretesting and test procedure validation with my trusty 9600GT... just to wet the appetite

I assume that you are running the rads with chilled water from a CenTraVac.

No more CenTraVac's for me, just "typical" triple radiator cooling... I have no ties to Trane (other than it being one of our business sectors) any more since I was moved to Ingersoll Rand in the acquisition. I am in a Trane office today though, officing out of here on my way to Detroit.