more phase change products?

[standin wave]

Phil - or anyone else - have nVentiv considered phase-change cooling for Graphics processors and Northbridge chips? The GPUs use a similar amount of juice to many CPUs and the options are more limited. If they don't intend to address these issues, what d'ya reckon is second best- Water cooling, peltier cooling, a hybrib of the two, living "up-North" where its always damn cold, a fan the size of a wind turbine, liquid Nitrogen, a rival Vapochill solution ?

sw

PS when are the II GTs due to arrive? The kids have all had their Easter presents and I'm hungry !!

 

[Ferret]

People have used Mach IIs to cool GPUs with custom made fitting kits. Still that is rather expensive so the next best thing is a water cooled Pelt. As for NB phase change would be complete overkill and give you a block of ice for a motherboard as will any pelt over 80w. Normally water or a good air solution is more than adequate, if you motherboard is crapping out the soldering iron seems to give larger improvements than better cooling for the NB.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

I cant really say what nVENTIV is up to as it is under NDA - but the pelt cooling is the best option if you want really good clocks - I prefer plain old water cooling myself, the waterchill kit is a doddle to install and you can run it a 7v so that its almost silent. It also allows some surprisingly good overclocks.

I've actually just producing a new rig myself, that is using the waterchill kit with the rad mounted on the top panel of the pc65, with everything within the case. The new nf250 boards are out soon, and these can finally get up to 300fsb, so with the new FX53 and the waterchill, with the Mach II I reckon we'll be laughing.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

By the way, reference the GT's not long - I should be getting my shipping info tonight or tomorrow. Gives me a chance to get the cases cut

 

[mcmad]

I cant really say what nVENTIV is up to as it is under NDA

Hmmm.. water cooling to compliment the mach II perhaps ??

 

[standin wave]

spill da beans !!

Phil,

Even though you're operating under an NDA, is there likely to be anything of interest, say this year?

We're hardly gonna jump ship and get a Vapochill when we've ordered a Prommie are we?

sw

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Well possibly something in the fourth quarter, but that is anyones guess really - I know they have been testing something quite special

 

[standin wave]

Dear Santa ......

sw

 

[Bennah]

lol, theres a couple of things on my list that I NEED for my puter, not WANT but NEED!

Badly Need:

RAM

PSU

Mouse and Keyboard

Then theres the Want list, but most of the stuff im going to buy over the next few months and spend alot of time on my puter over the summer

Better cpu cooling (Mach II )

New GPU (NV40 / R420)

Improved GPU Cooling (Pelt / Water)

New Case (Lian Li V1000/V2000)

Monitor (19" CRT)

Then a few little extras to make the appearence aof the case better.

Thats not much stuff Im going to but is it

 

[nick25]

sorry to hi-jack a thread but you know pelts - are they easy to set up? im worried about condensation. I know you can get ones that are already made up but I want a 226W pelt one. Also anyone know if this new cards will haved the same size gpu as older ones - or will new blocks have to be produced specially?

Also do you think a thermochill 120.3 is overkill for just gpu pelt (thats the only thing I plant to watercool/pelt) or is a rad this large needed due to the heat coming from 226W pelt. Also are meanwell PSU the way to go for such a pelt, if so anyone know where to get em a bit cheaper?

Cheers guys.

 

[Epicurus]

when using a pelt you have to get some Dielectric Grease which will protect your components

Take a look here

http://www.over-clock.com/ivb/index.php?showtopic=997

and

http://www.over-clock.com/ivb/index.php?showtopic=1013

<SPAN style="COLOR: black">With pelts you have to make sure that your PSU is up for the job or get a separate PSU

 

[standin wave]

nick25

Nick25 said

Also do you think a thermochill 120.3 is overkill for just gpu pelt (thats the only thing I plant to watercool/pelt) or is a rad this large needed due to the heat coming from 226W pelt

If you think about it - what heat is the graphics card generating - i.e. how many Watts - the pelt will only remove what is there to remove. I suppose the easy answer is it's probably overkill, but a 120.1 is around 3/4 price of a 120.3 and when you upgrade your graphics card then you might want to extract more heat, and if you have custom painted yr case you wouldn't want to then start drilling more big holes etc etc. I guess a pelt at 226W will extract 226W heat from the surroundings and thus if you can then throw that out your system, then there is some point - there again a 120.1 will 'discard' 250W I think it said. One benefit could be you could run 3 fans (or 6) real slow and remove the heat quieter than one fan bustin itself !! One other issue, doesn't a Pelt run off the PSU ? - 226W is a large power drain.

sw