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GeForce 6800 Watercooling?

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dderidex

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Question on this - how well does watercooling work on the 6800s?

I'm using a Swiftech waterblock now - but only on a 5900xt. Looking at the MASSIVE HSFs being shipped on the 6800s, I gotta wonder how effective this GPU block would be compared to all that cooling! Especially the ram and such - going to need a LOT of aftermarket cooling for this card, no?

Anyone here try a card 'stock' and after watercooling? Do you see the same kind of temp drops typical of watercooling older cards?
 
dderidex said:
Question on this - how well does watercooling work on the 6800s?

I'm using a Swiftech waterblock now - but only on a 5900xt. Looking at the MASSIVE HSFs being shipped on the 6800s, I gotta wonder how effective this GPU block would be compared to all that cooling! Especially the ram and such - going to need a LOT of aftermarket cooling for this card, no?

Anyone here try a card 'stock' and after watercooling? Do you see the same kind of temp drops typical of watercooling older cards?
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You could simply put ramsinks on the memory and it would be fine. GDDR3 runs cool(er). You need a new waterblock for the 6800 series cards though. People have had success with watercooling the card.

Scott

Edit: Nvm about needing a new block.
 
No new block needed, Swiftech is selling a mcw50/6800 adapter for about $12 ;)
 
i use the mcw50 with the 6800 conversion kit. i run the ram at 1150 without even putting any ram sinks on it.

of course once that new danger den bad ass cooler comes out im going to use it but i doubt ill get much better performance then im getting now @ 440/1150 cuz at this point the gt seems to run out of voltage
 
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