Philly's G80 Waterblock Comparison Review Work Log ***56K WARNING***

[Rastalovich]

It`s just getting sweeter and sweeter.

 

[Philly_boy]

wow - I was happy to just have mine "not leak"

interesting the lapping of the IHS, what is the expected gain in degrees?

i had thought as TIM's have now matured lapping was a thing of the past

as i am looking to use a cpu block on my aging 7800gtx, I am interested to see the difference the large monolith style coolers make.

I will prolly get 2-3 degrees C by lapping the FX-60. I decided not to lap the Apogee 1U's on some advice from a fellow 'clocker @ XS.org.

I am also interested to see how the full coverage blocks do against the "tried-and-true" method of a block on the GPU and ramsinks on the hot parts. The 8800GTX gets hot to begin with - 90C under load with stock cooling, so I will be interested how well all the blocks do at taming this hot beast. The little vrm chips will burn your finger when the card is loaded with no cooling on them. Just to give you an idea of how this card gets.

 

[Philly_boy]

Prepping the Swiftech MVR-220 rad with Yate Loon D12SL fans (these are the purple framed YL's with blue LED's. . .only Petra's has them).

Remounting the lapped-very-nicely FX-60:

Remounting the Storm:

I moved all the aluminum Evercool fans on to the PA 120.3, and threw a few very quiet Sunbeam's on the top blowholes and rear mobo side exhaust. I will have four of the D12SL's on the secondary rad (be it the Swifty MCR220 or the new BI GTX 240 when it arrives in a few days) in a push/pull configuration. I tightened up all the fan wiring and installed a Sunbeam Rheobus to tame the fan noise. It is **FAR** better than the POS "Noise Isolator" I had before! And the blue LED's (to denote the fans are @ 7v or below) fit in with the black, silver and blue theme of the case!

I will shut the system down now and start prepping my lone 8800GTX (til the other one gets back from rma. . . ) with the Swifty MC14 ramsinks and a MCW60.

Tonight I'll begin gathering data!:

 

[FarFarAway]

Oooh waiting for this..looks sweet

 

[Doddsy]

Yeah this looks very cool, I like the purple YLs!

 

[GrimReaper]

wow super cool :worship:

 

[FarFarAway]

For the sake page length, please don't quote loads of pics

 

[GrimReaper]

For the sake page length, please don't quote loads of pics

ooppss sorry, yup your right thx for telling me

 

[Philly_boy]

OK we got the 8800GTX prepped and in the waterloop; Check it out:

Say goodbye to the stock cooler:

Now we have to remove the 13 screws to remove the cooler:

Off it comes. I have done this once already replacing the crappy thermal tape with T411.

Next up it cleaning the IHS and other hot bits to prep them for the MCW-60/ram sinks.

All nice-n-clean.

I ran into a problem in that the ram sinks I had planned to cover the VRM's with did not sit flat when trying to

cover two sets of VRM's. So, I broke out the handy dandy Dremmel and made one into three!

I cut little pieces of T411 to attach them and now they look mighty trick!

I heated the thermal tape with the high setting of the gf's hair dryer for 30 seconds and pressed them firmly

onto the mem modules. Not one is loose. Not one!!

AS5 on the IHS. Don't flame me over my application method til you see the temps I get! This is the

approximate area the MCW-60 will contact the IHS.

MCW-60 attached

Another view to show tubing clearance.

Lookin nice-n-purdy in the loop.

Here's a preliminary result. From 70C idle with stock cooler and stock thermal tape to 51c idle with T411

to 37c idle on water. Guess what I'll be doing later tonight?

 

[Ham]

The answer to that had better dam well be 'Overclocking'

 

[grazzhopper]

Tried to send you a PM but it would not work.

The Swiftech GPU block? as my case has a 120mm fan adjacent to the PCIex area, their is not enough room on the left side area for tubes(less than 10mm between 7800gtx and fan). Can the block be positioned so tube in/out face the front of the case (floppy area), or are 90 degree bends an option ?mmmm

My of BH-5 style ram is very hot even at 2.8v, and i have not jet started the overclock? the perspex fan mount over your board for Mosfet and ram cooling is that homemade?

tia

and of cause the lack of updates to your thread ??????

 

[PV5150]

The Swiftech GPU block? as my case has a 120mm fan adjacent to the PCIex area, their is not enough room on the left side area for tubes(less than 10mm between 7800gtx and fan). Can the block be positioned so tube in/out face the front of the case (floppy area), or are 90 degree bends an option ?mmmm

The Swiftech GPU block can be turned around so it's facing towards the front of your case, that's what I did. Personally I would stay away from 90 deg bends, as they are a flow killer, just change the orientation of your GPU block and you'll be fine.

the perspex fan mount over your board for Mosfet and ram cooling is that homemade?

tia

Yes it is, and it was designed and manufactured by our very own FragTek. Only for DFI Expert systems though iirc. I have one on my DFI Expert X2 +3800 build

 

[darkorb]

sry to steal ur thread, but i have been oc'in my gpu, and it isnt consitent, whenever i do stress test, everytime i do it again, it drops by 1-2 fps. WTF

 

[FarFarAway]

Nice one mate. I do my thermal paste like that and it always works. Generally I cover the whole thing tho

 

[Philly_boy]

Tried to send you a PM but it would not work.

and of cause the lack of updates to your thread ??????

Many have successfully sent me pm's. I suggest you try again.

I was away all weekend at an overclocking event in San Jose, CA. We successfully clocked all 4 cores of a Kentsfield (Core 2 Quad) to 4.9ghz.

I'll be posting further progress of the G80 review tomorrow. I have the Danger Den NV-88's in hand and now there's something to compare with the Swifty MCW-60 with ram sinks.

Patience must you have padawan learner!!

 

[Ham]

That why you and fugger needed to fit a cascade in the back of a mustang?

 

[WC Annihilus]

Many have successfully sent me pm's. I suggest you try again.

I was away all weekend at an overclocking event in San Jose, CA. We successfully clocked all 4 cores of a Kentsfield (Core 2 Quad) to 4.9ghz.

I'll be posting further progress of the G80 review tomorrow. I have the Danger Den NV-88's in hand and now there's something to compare with the Swifty MCW-60 with ram sinks.

Patience must you have padawan learner!!

Very nice man BTW, the reason why he couldn't pm is because he didn't have enough posts. The threshold I believe is 30 posts

 

[grazzhopper]

post 28,

I will have to make one for my lanparty, great idea, dont suppose Fragtec has posted any pics of them,?

Fan size???

what difference they make, to ram temps?

 

[FragTek]

Many have successfully sent me pm's. I suggest you try again.

I was away all weekend at an overclocking event in San Jose, CA. We successfully clocked all 4 cores of a Kentsfield (Core 2 Quad) to 4.9ghz.

I'll be posting further progress of the G80 review tomorrow. I have the Danger Den NV-88's in hand and now there's something to compare with the Swifty MCW-60 with ram sinks.

Patience must you have padawan learner!!

How in the hell are you still working on this when ur in LV helping Reggie? Rofl, u do too many things at once

 

[Philly_boy]

That why you and fugger needed to fit a cascade in the back of a mustang?

Yes. . .that was where we were going....a 550 mile dash (at 110+!!) thru the desert to San Jose.