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6800 SLI Watercool block

Elias said:
and heavy, from the looks of it. But really cool
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Yeh as you can see its got an arm that screws onto the end of one of the slots for support... neat.
 
Actually I think the cooling solution is crap, two Alphacool Nexxos on seperate loops are much better IMHO.

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Why do you think the Innovatek block doesnt cool well? The Innovatek block does a pretty good job of cooling. I have one, and it cools pretty well. They simply stacked two on top of each other. A single block is about $130, wonder how much the double block will be.

Using two seperate blocks could be a bother for tubing routing.
 
fallguy said:
Why do you think the Innovatek block doesnt cool well? The Innovatek block does a pretty good job of cooling. I have one, and it cools pretty well. They simply stacked two on top of each other. A single block is about $130, wonder how much the double block will be.

Using two seperate blocks could be a bother for tubing routing.
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Why are water blocks so much more expensive than a regular heatsink? It seems like there is less to them than a full heatsink.
 
Well, there is a lot more hardware to the GPU+RAM blocks. If you compare just a GPU block, to a CPU block, the CPU blocks are usually more expensive.
 
The Innovatek block is good, but I think it´s not the best waterblock for the NV40, one reason for this is the material (all alloy and only a small copper core, right?) and a full copper block should perform better, but I have no idea how much better. I do think you need a very good kit to actually notice the difference between both.

I personally would never run an SLI system in a single loop, the way that the 2nd card card gets the hot water, but I´m picky when it comes to things like this. I´d rather spend some more money so that both cards get equal cooling.

I think waterblocks are more expensive because the demand is lower for them, and I´d say producing them is a tad bit more expensive as well.
 
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