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I'm going to do some testing with the fan for the other card turned down to 50%, i probably won't post anymore screenies, but I'll post the temp results.
I used them all up trying to perfect the positioning.
After adding all other ramsinks, the loctite444, and adjusting the zipties slightly:
Temps at idle:
Temps at "load", BFBC2 @ 1920x1200 @ 16xAF 16xSSAA(i think read below), Vsync was turned on by accident (and I meant to write 60-63deg max...
Excuse my poor pics and poor hosting choice!
The system all together (minus that ramsink that decided to fall off due to my poor usage of thermal adhesive):
A close up inside the case, blurry:
The card overhead, showing my ghetto zipties:
A side view, notice how clean I am with those...
I'll probably throw some on to reinforce the zipties, I have Loctite 444 which states "for printed circuit board assembly", and has a thermal conductivity of only 0.11 so i'll minimize the use of it...
EDIT3: Added pics, scroll down!
This is a work in progress, but I wanted to give you guys the lowdown on my very much WIP of modding a Corsair H60 watercooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181015) to work on my 6870 MSI Twin Frozer II...
Piracy won't matter nearly as much years to come as every major release will be "on the cloud" or "always connected". Basically every company will be "big brother" and they will be watching. Hackers/Piraters will have to get much better than a simple CD Key Gen or a Crack... They'll have to...
You should look on the XNA forums about setting up a Dual Boot, or having a rooted/non-stock OS on a fast SD Card.
Rooted, OC'd stock is probably the best for no-hassle usage.
I'd like to see The Witcher 2 added as a benchmark (though there are issues with both nvidia and ati cards atm). Its an extremely beautiful game on a unique engine and I think would provide some great insight into the more modern features/performance of GPU's.