Water Block for GTX 295

[NaeKuh]

Me wants nickel-plating!

Me likes bunch of shiny metal very much indeed!

if its like the old gx2 blocks, you can use your gpu fan header to plug in LED's in that acrylic to light it up too.

[mpower1001]

if its like the old gx2 blocks, you can use your gpu fan header to plug in LED's in that acrylic to light it up too.

Naekuh, Thanks for the tip, lets just hope Eddy makes a plexi version

[[XC] riptide]

Why are people, and admins no less, taking this far off topic?

What admins?

[Eddy_EK]

Hi!

There will be 4 options of the block.
Plexi
Acetal
Plexi + Nickel
Acetal + Nickel

Also, for plexi versions, there will be two 5mm holes for leds.

[mpower1001]

Eddy Thanks, I'll take plexi + nickel, how nice will this look with blue leds shinning off the nickel and plexi, I think i just !@#$% all over myself

[flesheatinvirus]

Hi!

There will be 4 options of the block.
Plexi
Acetal
Plexi + Nickel
Acetal + Nickel

Also, for plexi versions, there will be two 5mm holes for leds.

That is what I wanted to hear, the nickel finish is very nice.

[Demthios]

That will make it a hard choice now that Eddy is gonna do a plexi nickle set.

[theseeker]

This one should be considered too!
http://shop.aquacomputer.de/product_...oducts_id=2211

[BringerOdeath]

Wow, Eddy, You will have a nickel, plexi and a nickel, acetel! Well, since your blocks were awesome on my 9800gx2's I have to wait to see your nickel blocks, but its between you and koolance now!!

[LockBreaker]

Is it possible to fit the videocard's housing outside the block this time too?

[Budwise]

whatever ends up being the cheapest way to get my 295 under water is what I will get...

[DarthBeavis]

Depends on how you define attractive then I guess. For looks alone I agree, but I have seen no evidence that it also performs as good as it looks.

you have no evidence on how ANY of the block perform.


Kudos to Eddy for adding some luxurious bling! Nickle + acrylic center = sexy

[ElMoIsEviL]

since hell froze over and pigs started flying

Snipe When UPS brings mine Tuesday we'll have my card against yours on all the games we both have. 1650x1280 and 1920x1080 8XAA in any game you want

You'd want to pick something else than 8xAA... I'll explain why.

nVIDIA's GT200 and GT200b as well as the previous G80/G92 cards come equipped with what seems (at first glance) like being an Impressive set of TMUs. The kick is that when performing Anisotropic Filtering or Floating Points Texturing (such as HDR) your TMUs are halved (so 80 TMUs in the GTX 280 turns to 40).

The same can be said with the RBE (Render Back End or ROPs). The GT200 and GT200b come with far more ROPs than ATi's RV770 BUT when doing 8xAA (REAL 8xAA not the fake CSAA which only uses 4 samples and which Crysis and many games default on nVIDIA hardware therefore creating an apples and oranges scenario when comparing to ATi which does REAL 8xAA you can verify this by opening up the Crysis config file and right there you'll see that the nVIDIA 8xAA setting takes 4 samples and is called CSAA whereas ATi settings detect at 8 samples for full RGMS AA) the GT200 and GT200b lose HORRIBLY. Try it yourself. Set your nVIDIA AA in the control panel to 8x and set it to override application settings... watch the slide show.. ATi users now you try it and watch the nice fluid pixels.

I used to be a big time nVIDIA supporter until I uncovered that most of their performance comes from driver tricks rather than real hardware goodness. Too bad for ATi though, their drivers just aren't up to par.

Now add what sniipe was talking about (due to the frame buffer size being 1GB vs. 896MB) high res gaming is just better on 4870 X2 and is about to get even sweeter with the Catalyst 9.1 drivers.

[exe163]

...800 DDR3 RAM | Visiontek Radeon HD 4870X2 2GB Graphics Card | nVID...

ATI fanboy detected!

jkjk

I am still in the process of whether or not go to with ATi. I use to have a 4870 512mb and the drives are nightmares. Also looking at games right now, Crysis is the only game that matters on my 1920x1200 resolution. If ATi drivers can get as good as Nv's I am all over the RV770s.

[LockBreaker]

Is it possible to fit the videocard's housing outside the block this time too?

Anyone?

[Durkadurka]

You'd want to pick something else than 8xAA... I'll explain why.

nVIDIA's GT200 and GT200b as well as the previous G80/G92 cards come equipped with what seems (at first glance) like being an Impressive set of TMUs. The kick is that when performing Anisotropic Filtering or Floating Points Texturing (such as HDR) your TMUs are halved (so 80 TMUs in the GTX 280 turns to 40).

The same can be said with the RBE (Render Back End or ROPs). The GT200 and GT200b come with far more ROPs than ATi's RV770 BUT when doing 8xAA (REAL 8xAA not the fake CSAA which only uses 4 samples and which Crysis and many games default on nVIDIA hardware therefore creating an apples and oranges scenario when comparing to ATi which does REAL 8xAA you can verify this by opening up the Crysis config file and right there you'll see that the nVIDIA 8xAA setting takes 4 samples and is called CSAA whereas ATi settings detect at 8 samples for full RGMS AA) the GT200 and GT200b lose HORRIBLY. Try it yourself. Set your nVIDIA AA in the control panel to 8x and set it to override application settings... watch the slide show.. ATi users now you try it and watch the nice fluid pixels.

I used to be a big time nVIDIA supporter until I uncovered that most of their performance comes from driver tricks rather than real hardware goodness. Too bad for ATi though, their drivers just aren't up to par.

Now add what sniipe was talking about (due to the frame buffer size being 1GB vs. 896MB) high res gaming is just better on 4870 X2 and is about to get even sweeter with the Catalyst 9.1 drivers.

How is this even remotely relevant for a discussion about waterblocks for the 295 ?

[funk32]

EK's GTX295 blocks are going to be availble after 2nd February

http://ekwaterblocks.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=354{2}6

[Budwise]

man, I was spoiled by how cheap my MCW60 is...

[DarthBeavis]

man, I was spoiled by how cheap my MCW60 is...

6th street is calling you . . .

[Ttocs]

Danger Den waterblock.
Pics should speak for themselves.
http://dangerden.smugmug.com/gallery...62996723_3s9Gv
Pretty in a less industrial way to the others. I sort of like the little curve near the fan holes.

[BringerOdeath]

The Koolance Block still looks the best so far! I was going to order 2 today, but they are out of stock now....

[Henry8601]

How long do you think it will be before we start seeing a comparison between these blocks? Its interesting to see that people are already making their choices on the looks alone, and not the performance.

Having said that, does anybody know if/when/where the koolance blocks will be avaliable in the UK? :P

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

How long do you think it will be before we start seeing a comparison between these blocks? Its interesting to see that people are already making their choices on the looks alone, and not the performance.

Having said that, does anybody know if/when/where the koolance blocks will be avaliable in the UK? :P

there probably wont be a performance comparison, gpus are very easy to cool and all the manufacturers of FC blocks have it down to a system to create a good performing block.

[NaeKuh]

ATI fanboy detected!

.

You talking about me?

Guilty as charged:





Can i honestly ask how many of you guys intend to quad gpu? and if you do, what psu's your running.

[LockBreaker]

I intend to buy one of those cards. =)

I'm running a MIST 1000w. Pretty good powersupply. Got a lot of good credits.