8800 GTX water cooling

DO NOT get a thermaltake big water...I have it and it was such a waste of money. You can get better performance out of a cream of the crop air cooler. The only guideline for water cooling is you actually have to invest a pretty penny into it...If you get one of the lowly kits or not put enough cash into it you won't get results that are worth making the leap.

If I could take back the 150-200 I put into this water cooling rig for air cooling...Or take that cash and add onto it to get a custom swiftech solution...I would do so....

STAY AWAY FROM THERMALTAKE!...can't stress that enough..

If you really want to get water cooling ask around for whats good and get some feedback depending on your needs...

Yea...This was my first water cooling rig. Only reason I got the thermaltake bigwater was because someone had the same exact setup as mine when it came to psu, mobo, cpu, and case. He also got some damn great results...But for me it turn out to be major crap...A lesson learned for me. A lot of people told me to go custom and buy parts here and there..Stupid of me not to listen...For my next rig though going to do exactly that..Going to post here When I'm purchasing and get info on the best setup. Everytime I build a pc I literally get cutting edge in all categories cept for HD's....But this time I think I'mma go for the cream of the crop in hard drives as well. But yea...Big mistake for me getting the big water...=(...

For my next rig going to get 2 seperate water cooling rigs maybe...one for the cpu and one for the gpu/chipset...^.^....going to overclock the shiat out of it...I got my current 3.2 prescott (I know..I need an upgrade bad) to 4 ghz on the bigwater...But with HIGH temperatures that weren't worth water cooling...Now my bigwater has deteriorated over time and just keeps getting worse and worse. Plus it has a leak somewhere so it evaporates constantly and I have to refill. my load temp is literally around 63-67 c....Idle is 55....and that's back down to STOCK Settings...I disabled my overclock cause this water cooling rig just blows chunks. I would spend some cash to just toss this out for a good air cooling solution since atm it can do better...But this thing is atleast lasting for a bit even though I have to replace the liquid...I'm just waiting till I buy a complete new rig...About time since this sucker is a year or two older then I'd normally use.

BFG sells an 8800GTX with the Danger Den waterblock preinstalled. (It has a BFG logo etched instead of a Danger Den logo.)

http://bfgtech.com/8800GTX_768_PCIe_wc.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814143079

PC Gamer magazine called it "stiffy-inducing" (Feb. '07). I wouldn't go that far, but it is pretty damn nice. I even took a picture of it to work....

It took me some self-debate to justify the cost, though. Ultimately I decided: A "normal" 8800GTX is $600. The waterblock is $150. For an extra $50 I know it's installed correctly, I get a lifetime warranty, and I get a single-slot card. And a BFG t-shirt, too, well now that just cinches the deal.

Yeah, at least the heat is vented out the back now instead of into the case

mi 0.02 :
instead of the full DD block for the 8800 (too expensive) I've been thinking on saving a lot of money and trying to fit a maze4 plus ram heath sinks over ram and vreg.

Somewhere i see a guy doing it, it was way cheaper and worked good
but not sure all the work he had to do to fit the maze4

Also I heard swiftech has a plan to release a kit of gpu block + hs for 8800's...

anyway, the 8800 is still too new and don't want to damage it by mistake lol... also no OC is necessary yet so at least I will recommend wait a couple o months until the new blocks are for sale or OC becomes necessary