DangerDen Kits?

[PrimiSYS]

This was my first experiance with water cooling a PC. After alot of research, I was hoping to get ahold of a "kit" that would mostly eliminate the headaches of piecing together a homebrew water cooling rig.


I recently purchased a dangerden Maze4 kit, along with a set of maze4 "SLI" blocks in the kit package as well. The SLI kit included OCZ ramsinks to replace the stock sink to allow room for hoses to have clearance, and I assume enhanced cooling. Seems as though the kit didn' t fit very well on my XFX 6800GT cards (I think is a refrence style board?), as there was no clearance for the tubing at all. I ended up taking the two top ramsinks off completely after a failed attempt at bending the fins back...

I put in a call to dangerden last saturday (day of install) after running into this problem, and also finding that most of the directions on their site did not match the parts they sent me. Left message didn't get any response so far.

Is my card "different" is far as layout of memory than most, or just a refrence board? Are there lower profile ramsinks that you would reccomend I use to cool the 2 chips at the top of the card? do you really need ramsinks on the memory? I haven't had any lockups so far, but just curious. Has anyone here purchased wither of these kits and had simmilar experiances? Overall I am very happy with the performance of the kit so far, and am looking forward to more watercooling projects in the future....

Thanks in advance for the advice and feedback!

 

[Vertigo Acid]

Yeah I own some of those OCZ height ramsinks and also some smaller generic aluminum BGA sinks and there's no way you're getting the bigger copper ones on those top two RAM chips on a 6800GT. All of them are designed like that

seems weird that DD would sell those even if they don't fit

 

[PrimiSYS]

Yeah I thought it was kind of strange because if you look at their "instructions" and watch the videos, nothing looks the same. Some parts in the mounting kits are different, some parts are missing, etc. One of the main reasons I called their support line was because in the video instructions for mounting the A64 maze4 block showed spacers that went between the the spring to achieve the correct amount of pressure on the waterblock... Spacers were nonexistent... No call back so figured I would just use what they sent me. Seemed to work, but when attempting your first watercooling system, it's nice when the instructions are relevant!


I own a technology shop in oregon, and was hoping to find a supplier that would address the issues that customers had with their products. I would like to be able to build custom water cooled systems and feel confident that the supplier would stand behind their products. I am not slamming dangerden, but after four unreturned phone calls, you have to wonder...