Water cooling a 8800GTS...

[TrueTenacity]

I see that the 8800 cards are all dual slot cards, one being for the card the other for the cooling...

I take it that just putting a water block on the GPU would be a bad idea... what would be the best way to do it?

I have a water block for a nVidia 6x00 - 7x00 card, but it most likely won't fit on an 8800...

 

[darkstar782]

The 8800s are awkward, there is a GTX waterblock but I don't think it fits the GTS. There are no GTS waterblocks available yet afaik.

The problems are that:

1. Most older water blocks are not large enough to cool the whole heatspreader

2. The 8800s have completely different mounting holes than anything previous

3. You also need to cool the TDMS/HDCP chip and the power regulators, as well as the RAM and GPU.

 

[outlw6669]

Unless you are woried about the noise, I understand that the 8800 coolers are more than sufficent. There is even some room for hefty o/c'in.

"At default the 8800 GTS comes in at 500MHz on the core and 1600MHz DDR on the memory. The core increased to a truly outstanding 643MHz (143MHz increase or about 22%) and the memory got a significant boost up to 1824MHz DDR (224MHz DDR increase or about 12%)."

Anyways bfg already has a GTX with a water block ,http://www.bfgtech.com/8800GTX_768_PCIe_wc.html, and I think the coolers for the 2 cards are the same. Sooooo the rest of the watter blocks can't be two far behind.

 

[outlw6669]

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