GTX 480 w Danger Dan article.

That looks very sweet. Where do you mount the radiator and pumps for that setup though though? I've got a HAF 932 and there's not much room left after putting in two extra 120mm fans, and an oversized antec 1200W psu.
 
^^ That is for sure

While the cooling performance is awsome, price\performance wise uhmmm not too impressive.

But tell me you would not like a couple of GTX 480s with those shinny blocks in your rig?
 
How do those massive full coverage blocks compare to GPU only blocks with either a full coverage heatstink over the ram/mosfets or gluing a bunch of small heatsinks on each individual chip?
 
I am going to try and find a link and post it, but I have seen a few people just using a Swiftech MCW80 w/ the G80 backplate and leaving both the fan and teh initial heatsink plate for the Ram and Mosfets with good results as opposed to trying to put on all the mini heatsinks. I am going to be doing this myself later this week, I ended up with not one but two of the wonderful cards with the f'd up screws that shred on the tops. Even trying to use a screw extractor all they did was shred more :mad: I was originally planning on using the bitspower wb but I have had to return them. Fortunately the folks at FrozenCPU are being pretty cool about it.

Once I am set up I'll try and post some benches and temps.

Cheers

Croaker
 
Nice. And completely pointless, something which their own benchmark tests prove.

These cards are for gaming, and the 480, at stock settings, is blasting through every benchmark like butter. In Bad Company 2 you're not going to notice any difference between a card that's running at 50 frames per second and one that's running at 65.

It's a pointless endeavor (unless your cock is too small and you're trying to prove something to the world). Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.

"Look at these Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 benchmark numbers - instead of getting 92 frames per second at 2560x1600 we're able to achieve 116 - that was surely worth ripping the card apart and spending over $150 on. Damn we're good."
 
Huh, have you got epeen envy or something?
There's one huge factor you're missing out on besides the lower temps that waterblocks provide - they make the video cards a LOT QUIETER.

That's the main reason I'd consider it.
The extra overclocking headroom is just gravy.
 
WabeWalker said:
*a whole bunch of whining*
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So go back to the Dell forums and quit wasting our time. You can hand in your [H] card and take a complimentary pacifier on the way out.

Great review, and really shows what the Fermi architecture is capable of should they ever get it under control. There's no doubt some great engineering went into the chip, it was just so poorly executed in its final production. I'm particularly impressed with the consistently high scaling of the overclock across applications. However, the card in it's current state just isn't impressive with all its other shortfalls.
 
so cost of a 480(550) plus 160 for the block... plus tax... and it stilll doesnt come close to a 5970 that draws 200 less watts?

its a nice card but damn... to many trade offs. that water block is hella shiny though.
 
WabeWalker said:
*dumb rant snip*
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I guess you missed the part about it going from 36 to 45 FPS on bad company 2? Or are you one of the people who doesn't believe 30" monitors exist? It's fucking water cooling the most powerful single GPU card out there. This isn't for your 22" or 24" screens. :rolleyes:
 
vengence said:
I guess you missed the part about it going from 36 to 45 FPS on bad company 2? Or are you one of the people who doesn't believe 30" monitors exist? It's fucking water cooling the most powerful single GPU card out there. This isn't for your 22" or 24" screens. :rolleyes:
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Not just that, but I imagine an SLI setup for 3d surround would be pretty sweet with the danger dens.
 
as some people pointed out above, the whole reason to watercool goes way beyond just getting a few more FPS...

it's mostly pure silence...and it keeps a TON of heat out of your case...you can almost eliminate ALL fans from your case/video cards/cpu/etc. except for the low CFM fans on your rads...

I dont blame people for not understanding W/C until they do it though..I was on the other side of the coin for a long time and now I would never never never go back to air cooling, no matter the costs.
 
Intel_Hydralisk said:
Not just that, but I imagine an SLI setup for 3d surround would be pretty sweet with the danger dens.
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For an SLI setup for multimonitor or just for 30" (because really, CoD:MW2 or BF:BC2 aren't the most taking games out there) you could make a real argument for 2x WC OC'ed cards instead of 3X non-WC non-OC'ed cards once you start looking at third card scaling, temperature (note, only temperature I see as an issue, the heat and power draw would be similar), and sound issues involved in a 3X SLI setup.
 
also keep in mind it had a dedicated 2 rad setup for 1 video card... Nothing else in the loop.

waterblock + pump + rad + extras is gonna be 300+ dollars... just for the video card cooling system.

and I have never seen a water cooling setup where only the video card is water cooled, most people also watercool the cpu and the northbridge.
 
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