Innovatek mods for 7800

[maverik-sg1]

Okay guys,

Looking at the piccies I have seen the footprint for waterblocks to suit the 6800 VGA cards such as Danger Den, Koolance and Innovatek will all fit the 7800's.

The innovatek also has a cooled heasink that cools the voltage regs on the 6800's - these have to be removed (hacksaw/jigsaw and dremmel time) so the the innovatek block fits correctly.

Here's the 7800

Here's the standard innovatek block:

Heres the mod required (spot teh difference)

A bit rough but then thats why I am not a graphic designer LOL - but hopefully you get the drift of teh mods required - just removing that bulky stick-out part that covers the voltage regulators should allow this watercooling block to fit correctly onto the 7800's.

Cheers

Mav

 

[Master_G]

Is that bit just solid metal or do you need to seal the block up again?

7800 does seem to me to render most of the blocks that cool the memory as well a bit pointless as it has half of the memory on the back of the card, but if you already have one, great news that you can simply mod it to fit.

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[Grov]

Those all in one cooler, aren't very good though, not cmpared to say a Maze 4 or Fusion.

 

[maverik-sg1]

It's solid Aluminium and can easily be removed without having to re-seal.

I appreciate what you are saying about the coolers, however, by watercooling the GPU and RAM, these allow you to take the heat the RAM generates away from the case too which all leads to a better overall system overclock and a cooler more stable system overall.

F Y I - I use these on my rig that has achieved all those brilliant benchamarks - Scorchio has them too for his brilliant benchmarks - Overall I'd say they are at least good enough for the job.

Cheers

Mav

 

[unreal]

I really cant get pictures to load

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

The 512 Ultras have BGA on both sides of the card rendering all core/bga blocks like that useless. Having said that even the reference design doesnt allow for active cooling on some of the BGA so it cant be that essential. DDR3 doesnt get excessively hot. I'd imagine it would be the same with these cards. The only reason for those blocks is for overclocking.

 

[Master_G]

I dont even see the point for overclocking IMO, i have never personally gained anything by increasing the cooling to video card ram past putting some decent copper ramsinks on them, so i just see blocks that cool the ram as well as an expensive way of increasing the restriction of your loop and worsening your temps, and they usually weight a lot too (copper not aluminium)

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[maverik-sg1]

The manufacturer does (or has) offer front and rear ram cooling if required (tight squeeze in SLI though).

Anyhow I am no fanboy just making a point that I beat all but twenty people in futuremark in the whole world - 3dm2001se, 3dmark05, 3dmark2001 and I am the top score in Aquamark (the number one and two scores are cheats). Ot I was until June 22nd when 7800's were reased LOL

All of this was done on my rig with 6800GT's in SLI with innovatek coolers - scorchio's are the same but he used ultra's fitted with innvatek block and he's right up there too.

I am not trying to win a discussion here - I think the results speak for themselves.

I am not saying either that other coolers are not as good, quite the contrary I think they are better and BGA copper sinks are easily good enough to cool the ram - but watercooling the ram allows the heat to be removed from the case (nice and quiet and without having chance to warm other components on it's way out).

For those of us that do not have enough room or sufficient modding knowledege to make room for a more desrieable 1/2" system - these 10mm beauties have proven to be able to do a job good enough to get the most from what you have.

Anyhow lets not digress - this is a thread about modding existing blocks to fit the latest and greatest that Nvidia has to offer.

 

[SAS91]

Ive noticed recently a new cooling method thats been mentioned in many magazines. It is supposed to be 6x more effective than water or somethng along them lines.

However it does not remove the heat from the area requiring an air cooler. I was thinking and came to the conclusion that it would be sensible to attach it to a water loop to remove the heat.

Sorry if this sounds a bit messed up, im tired and a bit tipsy But check your new custom PC, its the page next to the F@H stats.

 

[Master_G]

Is that the liquid metal cooling thingy? Looks very interesting that.

Those 10mm blocks do work great, and 10mm tubing is great to work with, aluminium does restrict the loop you can use with it unfortunately.

Back on topic, does anyone know yet if the voltage regulators will need much airflow if you are watercooling the rest of the card (going to probably have less airflow if you are watercooling the ram)

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[maverik-sg1]

The regulators on 7800 sit on a smaller but 2.5x wider heatsink.

The beauty of the 7800 generation is that it actually uses less heat and uses less power (due to being on 110nm die compared to 130nm on 6800's) so I doubt anything more than good airflow in the case will be required.

@ SAS91 Liquid metal is in its infancy but you are right liquid metal to draw the heat away from component couples with good watercooling does seem to be the way forward - the reason liquid metal cant be used 100% is that it's too heavy and you would need a very powerful (high pressure) pump to get it to circulate, not forgetting that it's a wee bit more expenzsive than water.

But a water/liquid metal set-up sounds like 'the next big thing'.

Cheers

Mav