Having added a Zalman water block to the 8800GTX in my 3.2GHz overclocked Intel QX6700 quad-core machine, the water temperature was pushing 60 degrees C and the Reserator was next to useless.
I quickly designed and made a fan cooled base for it, and it now works brilliantly with the Reserator barely getting warm even with O/C on CPU and 8800GTX.
Feel free to copy, and let anyone else know of this simple cheap solution to make the thing work properly :-
(last picture shows simple heavy cardboard flaps on each side to direct all the airflow over the fins)
Unit dimensions are 400mm long x 200mm wide x 80mm high.
plan is at:-
Full size pics in my gallery at
http://www.pbase.com/cdyckes/misc&page=all
Enjoy!
I quickly designed and made a fan cooled base for it, and it now works brilliantly with the Reserator barely getting warm even with O/C on CPU and 8800GTX.
Feel free to copy, and let anyone else know of this simple cheap solution to make the thing work properly :-
(last picture shows simple heavy cardboard flaps on each side to direct all the airflow over the fins)
Unit dimensions are 400mm long x 200mm wide x 80mm high.
plan is at:-
Full size pics in my gallery at
http://www.pbase.com/cdyckes/misc&page=all
Enjoy!