Recent content by cap232

Well, this is a different setup for sure! Quick update now phase change fitted. All BIOS settings same as on my previously posted water cooled setup other than those changes below. Water loop is currently doing 1 GPU only, will test SLI later. Only changes are: vCore 1.7V (at 1.8V the...

Quick update now phase change fitted. All BIOS settings same as on my previously posted water cooled setup other than those changes below. Water loop is currently doing 1 GPU only, will test SLI later. Only changes are: vCore 1.7V (at 1.8V the motherboard seems to go a bit freaky and...

It took me a bit of time to find a phase change capable of keeping up with the 200W of heat output from a QX6700 running on the limit. Ive heard of people frying their phase change kit with the quad core CPUs. I went for Prometia Quad Killer, as far as i know not many others can cope. It...

Dealing with RMA's can be one of the most frustrating things to do with your life ;p best of luck...

Final benchmarks after tweaking water cooling and volt mods on the 8800 GTX werent bad. Finished up needing to hike up the GPU volts to 1.6v, idle temps 53C, load temps 78C. Core clock speed 653MHz, memory 1100MHz, shader 1674 MHz. 3DMark06 stable, no artifacts, score 15259. In SLI mode i...

No assumption needed, empiracly that appears to be the case, at least to 50% of starting resistance at any rate. No doubt it isnt perfectly linear as regulating power linearly is nigh on impossible given a variable load. I notice that at 370 ohms i get 1.6v to the GPU (a tad high but ok with...

After reading up what i could about volt modding the 8800 and being discouraged by some people concerned about my cards health! i couldnt resist the temptation to tweak... The GPU volt mod guidance provided by an number of online sources suggests soldering a 500ohm VR across the resistor...

Yeh the RAMDAC seems to get very hot, the RAM on the other hand only gets slightly over luke warm.

Good luck with the new mobo... Extreme Prometia have got the DD 8800 water block, http://www.extremeprometeia.com/acatalog/DangerDen.html I was browsing there when deciding what to do next. The Thermochill PA120.2 + Silenx fans has got the temps down even more, even though ive added the...

Done! Thx. omg those sticky thermal pads suck!

I just bought this great GPU block but suddenly realised now my RAM/vregs on the 8800gtx have no cooling once its fitted. Is the general consensus that they dont need the cooling or do people use something else in addition to the Fuzion??

yeh, would be nice if they bios'd the 8800gtx volt regs then there would be no need to physically modify the board.

Anyone have a view on whether the effort of soldering and changing resistors is worth it for the extra voltage overclocks on the 8800GTX?

... SilenX 90CFM fans in now, idle temps now another 8-9degC, with the new 3.8GHz settings its idling at 30degC and fully Orthos loaded 55degC. So down on temps even more when fully loaded. Water temps did average around 31degC now down to 27degC. Quiet fans too considering the airflow, pity...

The DDC1 or 2 i would think would be better in a 3/8 system since the smaller bore tubing means the system would benefit from the pumps higher head pressure without loss of efficiency. Generally the Apogee GTX is good in high flow rate systems and the Fuzion better in lower flow rate, so maybe...