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

[skinnee]

Some of you may know that we (Skinnee Labs) are running a GTX480 Round-Up with a planned start for the first week in May. Now I say planned start due to stock availability of both the GTX480 as well as blocks.

This thread will be sort of a catch-all, discussion and feedback type of thing, we'll take a look at each of the blocks as they arrive, installation and a variety of other things I am sure. We'll add links to specific posts in this opening post for ease of finding information as this thread grows.

In short, we're trying something a bit different from our norm, and we'll see how this goes as to whether to incorporate something like this in the future.

GTX480 Full Cover Block Roundup

Post Index:

Pretesting Info
Card Arrived, looping and initial pretesting

Guides
GTX480 Stock HSF removal
Bitspower Black Freezer Installation - Part 1
Bitspower Black Freezer Installation - Part 2
Koolance VID-NX480 Installation Video
Danger Den Installation Video
EK Block Installation Video
Aqua Computer aquagrafx480 Installation Video
EVGA Hydro Copper Install Video
XSPC Block Install Video
Watercool HeatKiller GPUX3 Install Video

Block Photos (in order received)
Koolance Block pics
Danger Den Block pics
EK Block Pics
Bitspower Block Pics
AquaComputer Block Pics
EVGA/Swiftech Block Pics
XSPC Block Pics
Watercool Block Pics

Full Review
GTX480 Full Cover Block Roundup

Final Data/Charts
Restriction/Pressure Drop






Temps
Stock Profile




Overclocked Profile (875/1750/2130 @ 1138mV)




Relative Performance Score
50% Overclocked GPU Temp, 25% Overclocked VRM Temp, 25% Loop Flow Rate