6800 Reviewers: Important question!

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dderidex

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What kind of heatsink can we put on these cards?

It *looks* like the holes in the PCB follow nVidia's standard placement pattern - 4 immediately around the core and 2 offset by angles.

Could someone with one of these cards verify this?

I'm curious if the standard after-market cooling solutions (especially waterblocks, which are a pain in the ass to change) are following the same pattern nVidia has been using, or whether they are using ATI's setup now, or whether they have returned to the GF4 hole placement.

Comments from anyone 'in the know' are welcome!
 
I would like to hear an answer to this one as well. If I could swap out the GPU core fan and replace it with my waterblock, the possibility of getting a high OC would be awesome.
 
I wish it would overclock like that

They may it a poor overclocker (which is most likely)
Tis built to scale so it means they wont be labelling PU's by demand of a certain prodcut (like in the CPU market). Thats why you dont see many overclockable cards (never seen more than 15%)

Water cooling maybe able to get 100mhz overclock though...or phase cooling :rolleyes:
 
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