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DFI Daishi said:watercooling things because we can.
that's not what it's about for all of us.Bona Fide said:That's what it's all about.
New MOSFET waterblocks!!
But even if they do, ViperJohn has his own heatsink he uses for it.Erasmus354 said:ok I have restrained myself long enough...the only people that should be using this are people that send their 7800GTX off to Viper John to get it volt modded.
Agreed 100%..................DFI Daishi said:that's not what it's about for all of us.
some of us want the best performance we can get, and don't much care if it's watercooled or not, so long as it works optimally.
my own current setup is a bit odd in that light, since i built my cooling on a full time job kind of budget, however current hardware is based on the requirements of a student budget. all the same, i still believe in the goal of cooling what needs to be cooled, to the degree that it will not be a bottleneck, to overclocking or overall performance. anything beyond that is pointless.
Erasmus354 said:ok I have restrained myself long enough...the only people that should be using this are people that send their 7800GTX off to Viper John to get it volt modded.
no, i do not own a 7800 GTX, and i do not know FOR A FACT that the Vregs don't need water cooling.Top Nurse said:Would all the people that posted here about how worthless this product is please answer the following question:
Do you currently own a 7800 GTX video card and know for a fact that it doesn't need watercooling?
Ctrl_Alt_Delete said:Vregs under that little black heatsink were getting into the upper 70C range.
FLECOM said:no it dosent mean anyhting, the average LM78xx/LM317 linear regulator IC is rated for -40 deg c to +125 degrees C
im sure your regulators were quite content running at 70c
Top Nurse said:Do the 7800 GTX's use the average chip? Also the issue is of getting nice clean power to the unit that make your ultra-fast games happen. So while the chip doesn't fry till it hits 125 degrees Centigrade what happens to the voltage regulation characteristics in the output power? BTW, you sure about that 125C rating? Water boils at 100C.
i do...what a waste....Top Nurse said:Would all the people that posted here about how worthless this product is please answer the following question:
Do you currently own a 7800 GTX video card and know for a fact that it doesn't need watercooling?
thelostrican said:i do...what a waste....
i also just got a new 1800xt, an darn its huge....i hope danger den, makes a full block for it...something tells me this time around the memory will get really hot
pawstar said:Excellent! First the memory cooler, now this. Its a wonderful product for those of us who want to build a really silent system and don't want too many fans
i didnt watercooled, but i used one of this:Top Nurse said:Meaning you watercooled it and it didn't make any difference in your OC's or were you able to run it at what you did without letting the magic smoke out?
not even bling, for god sake it doesnt even match with their gpu cooling, horrible, no bling in that block, an you start to add all those blocks and all of a sudden you have a spider web in your case, yiack....Erasmus354 said:Not really, it is a wonderful product for the people who want the bling factor or the because I can factor in their system. The mosfets are easily passively cooled with the stock heatsink on them. Its not a bad product, just a largely unnecessary product...then again we dont NEED to watercool at all
Top Nurse said:Would all the people that posted here about how worthless this product is please answer the following question:
Do you currently own a 7800 GTX video card and know for a fact that it doesn't need watercooling?
InternationalHat said:I own a 7800 GTX cooled with a dangerden maze4 gpu block and OCZ bga ramsinks. This mosfet cooler has to be either the first or second dumbest thing I've ever seen on these forums and I read the car section.
InternationalHat said:I own a 7800 GTX cooled with a dangerden maze4 gpu block and OCZ bga ramsinks. This mosfet cooler has to be either the first or second dumbest thing I've ever seen on these forums and I read the car section.
rather than addressing comments like this at people who are confining their commentary to the product presently being discussed, perhaps you could try countering some of the points that we are making.Top Nurse said:find it hillarious that all the people who are downing this product are all bigger tube advocates that couldn't possibly use this product anyway.
Perhaps it is time for a Koolance thread?
Top Nurse said:So if you eliminated the fan that was cooling the VR on your video card how did you cool it? I find it hillarious that all the people who are downing this product are all bigger tube advocates that couldn't possibly use this product anyway.
Perhaps it is time for a Koolance thread?
FLECOM said:actually volt modding should make them run cooler! if you increase the voltage going to the video chip the amount of voltage the regulator has to drop is less, making it convert less into heat... this would be nulled if the video chipset started drawing more current but electronic devices will usually draw less current when you raise the voltage... but ymmv
Top Nurse said:So if you eliminated the fan that was cooling the VR on your video card how did you cool it? ...
InternationalHat said:Since when was there a fan cooling my voltage regulator? There's a big black heat sink on it. I see absolutely no need to do anything else with it considering passive heatsinks are silent.
This is silly and frivolous unless you're voltmodding. And if you're voltmodding, why would you want to run a low flow/restrictive setup for your GPU? It's self-defeatist to put many items on the loop or to not cool the gpu to the most of the loop's potential if voltmodding. I can't help but laugh at some of these products koolance and AC are making lately. A good many of them are watercooling for the sake of watercooling. What's next? Are we going to cool my cdrom drive so the cds don't get warm? Maybe we can watercool my fans and then use those same fans to cool their own radiator and then cool other things with that!
If someone can actually post some data that this does anything over a good passive sink MEASURABLE IN A DOUBLE-BLIND TEST, I will eat my hat... and I guess I'll just become International.
FLECOM said:actually volt modding should make them run cooler! if you increase the voltage going to the video chip the amount of voltage the regulator has to drop is less, making it convert less into heat... this would be nulled if the video chipset started drawing more current but electronic devices will usually draw less current when you raise the voltage... but ymmv
DFI Daishi said:can you (or anyone else)provide some evidence that:
1) Vreg will not opperate optimally at temperatures up around 70C, even if it is spec'd for up to 125C.
2) a good heatsink, with normal case airflow, will not keep the Vreg sufficiently cool to opperate optimally.
3) having an effective air cooling solution to cool the video memory, Vreg, and chipset (all at once, or seperately) offers inferior performance in terms of either noise or cooling.
a few people, myself included, have made points indicating that the above points are all false. please show how one or more of them are true, if you want to demonstrate that this is a worthwhile product.
No they don't work equally well............ And no one started a high flow/low flow game, they just said it wasn't need in this case.............. And I'm sorry that you don't want to come out and play anymore..................Top Nurse said:They both seem to work equally well, correct? I find it extremely amusing that all the talk about this thread centers around High vs Low flow. Sorry, but I don't play that game anymore.