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

[One_Hertz]

I understand that Furmark would be consider overkill since games never push that hard, it's good for testing extreme thermal limits. When asked about your clock speeds I was wondering if your at stock clocks or if you have overclocked your pair of 480's, the EK blocks are not only looking to equal the Danger Den blocks but are also $120 dollars cheaper is purchasing two blocks. Do you have the see through acrylic or other top solid aluminum tops?

The thing is, there is no thermal sensor on the voltage regulators. This means that I (along with almost every person with a WCed 480gtx) am blissfully unaware how hot my vregs run. With this in mind, I do not believe it is the best idea to be stressing the card beyond the normal amounts. If I knew for sure that my vregs were fine, then I would test it with anything.

And what Vapor said. You can't exactly compare different setups just like that as I have a lot more rad power in my loop and my water rises only a few degrees above ambient.

I have a single 480GTX not a pair. My block has an acrylic top.

Found the only items they spec:
So for our test setup we created a dedicated liquid cooling loop for the GeForce GTX 480. We used a Black Ice dual 120mm radiator with two low RPM fans. We fire up the PC and check the idle temperatures and after a while we start to stress the GPU massively.

I have two triple rads with six 1500rpm fans on them for my CPU + GPU with a single Switech 655 variable pump making everything flow.