6800 Ultra Water Block

[shawnlizzle =]]

i read some stuff about the DangerDen NV-68 Water Block, and i decided yeah, its not worth my money to get that. so what other top notched water block for the 6800 Ultra do you guys think there are. (i'm getting a BFG 6800 Ultra OC)

 

[DeathClock]

I saw a good looking one on the net today, the HEATKILLER GPU-X:
<A HREF="http://www.presence-pc.com/images/watercool_wb_x800_resizedTo460.jpg" target="_new">http://www.presence-pc.com/images/watercool_wb_x800_resizedTo460.jpg</A>

And well I have been looking at the Nexus GPU waterblock, but I haven't seen any tests yet on weither its good or not.
<A HREF="http://www.nexustek.nl/h2o6000.htm" target="_new">http://www.nexustek.nl/h2o6000.htm</A>

And the Silverprop Fusion HL GPU Block is there aswell, heard its pretty good:
<A HREF="http://www.silverprop.com/estore/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=47" target="_new">http://www.silverprop.com/estore/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=47</A>



<A HREF="http://www.forsaken-game.com/" target="_new">Half-Life2:Forsaken</A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by DeathClock on 02/11/05 08:23 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[florek]

The problem with those is that they don't cool the memory.

Here's one that looks as good as the DangerDen, and a bit cheaper:

http://www.koolance.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=174

 

[folken]

There is always the <A HREF="http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-blc-139.html" target="_new">Innovatek Cool-Matic NV40</A>. The price is probably comparable to the DangerDen NV-68 though.

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[shawnlizzle =]]

awsome, but do they perform as well as the dd?

 

[folken]

It is probably at least equal if not better. All of my innovatek stuff has been extremely high quality, I'm sure that thing is no exception.

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[shawnlizzle =]]

frozencpu says that the company does not recommend not using the Inovatec protect pro fluid... why is that?

 

[folken]

I was sort of confused by that too. There usually arn't any returns on water cooling stuff anyway so why would it matter?
I say don't listen to that. I doubt you will ever have to worry about RMAing a waterblock, lol.
I don't think that pro fluid stuff is any better than water wetter.

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[shawnlizzle =]]

hahah water wetter brings back some memories, i searched "wetter water" on google and umm lets just say adult oriented things were there instead of good 'o water cooling

 

[folken]

lol

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[shawnlizzle =]]

oh, i just saw on frozen cpu taht the danger den lowered the gpu temp by 30 degrees celcius... most of the forums say 10-17... what did they do?

 

[folken]

That could be any number of things. Most likely a marketing ploy but they might actually have cooled it more. Maybe the guy in the forums didn't have it seated all the way. Maybe they used some sort of special thermal paste at frozencpu. Maybe they are in colder weather. Who knows?
The waterblock is going to more than likely cool the card more than air cooling will. Anything lower than the stock coolers temps will be good

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[shawnlizzle =]]

dude, the black ice pro 2 thats recommended with the block is such a pain in the arse, seriously, where the hell are you gonna mount two gigantic 2x120mm radiator with two big arse fans

 

[folken]

Thats true, lol.
I barely sqeezed a little heater core into my big case. It isn't even 2x120mm sized, just one 172mm fan fits on it

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[shawnlizzle =]]

mounting ur radiator externally is hella funny, it's like having a heater in ur house.... lol save on those electricity bills in the winter

 

[shawnlizzle =]]

btw, how would you mount ur radiator and fan externally, and where do you usually mount it?

 

[folken]

I put one on the side of my house...

Mount it where ever you have room for it.

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[shawnlizzle =]]

but if you have more tubing, doesn't it decrease the cooling performance? or thats what i heard. and wusy, thats a pretty good idea to mount it on top, but how did you secure ur MDF board to the case

 

[folken]

I don't know, having more tubing might make cooling performance better. The water would have even more surfaces to expell heat
My "side of house" radiator has about 30ft of tubing from the case to radiator and it works great

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[shawnlizzle =]]

well, that is true to an extent, but rubber or plastics arn't the giants at conductivity... rather ur pump will have a harder time keeping up with all the extra [-peep-] that it has to pump through

 

[Ned_Flanders]

it's not [-peep-], it's water :lol:

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