Swiftech Releases Komodo HD5800 F/C Waterblock For ATI

[dejanh]

Will do dejanh, and good to hear you are getting those vrm temps under control. you had some scary numbers going there.

I'm going to have to get a different bios from Powercolor, all they let me do with the installed bios is 900/1300. More than enough for me, but I do want to push it and refine it a bit more before I settle into an economical 24/7 setup.

I haven't played with overclocking other than to set it to 4.2ghz and set the memory to DDR2000/CAS8. It's been running since I first powered it yesterday.

I'm a 3D designer/animator, so realtime graphics performance takes a second seat to Render speed for me. I'm no overclocker that's for sure. haha

having fun though!

Fur sure I have had my share of stress though as well. Testing this when you are paying out of your own pocket is no joke. Parts die and nobody finances my replacements.

Having said that, I would be really curious to see your results with FurMark 1.8 using Xtreme Burning Mode, if you can 1920x1200 resolution, ~1.3V on the card with 1000MHz core and 1250MHz-1300MHz on the memory.

[johnnymossville]

...I would be really curious to see your results with FurMark 1.8 using Xtreme Burning Mode, if you can 1920x1200 resolution, ~1.3V on the card with 1000MHz core and 1250MHz-1300MHz on the memory.

I might work my way up to that as I gain some courage. Raw performance is cool and Dirt2 totally kicks arse on this machine, but I think the nicest part of water cooling the gpu is how quiet it is compared to the stock cooler. That thing sounds like a jet taking off!

And yes, failure can be expensive if things go bad. I haven't built up a pc in a few years before this one, and I definitely had a few moments of stress when things weren't going right along the way. All kinds of thoughts run through your head when things go bad!!! LOL