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Koolance VC & MEM cooler, thoughts?

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Thinkin of getting thisKoolance 6800 gt cooler My only concern is that the Exos can't effectively handle the increased temps of the added VCooler and thus all temps will rise. Or the increase in GPU temps will raise the mem temps.
The Exos does a good job at keeping the cpu cool albeit not much better then my old jet engine Delta and SLK 800 but it is quite :eek:
Am I all wet?
 
I have this block cooling a Quadro FX 3400 workstation card, which is essentially a 6800 GT, certainely in terms of heat production. I split my cool water line from the exos and run half to the CPU, the other half to the GPU and then the NB. The hot lines then Y together and head back to the radiator.
The CPU is a Prescott running at 4.2 GHz with a 1.5 vcore. Under very heavy load on both, (HL2 at 2560 x 1600) CPU temps will sometimes break 55. With these settings I don't see any CPU throttling at all until ~62C. GPU never gets above 45, according to its internals, but I suspect it's actually cooler than that.

This is with ambient air temperatures around 65F, which is a bit on the low side. When ambient gets up to 80F, I drop the CPU back to 4.0 GHz.
 
The only turn-off is aluminum memory block.... and 1/4"ID quick-connects. Otherwise, a pretty good competitor to NV68 cooler - $40 cheaper! woot :cool:
 
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