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Hi all,
So I finally got round to modding an old Innovatek Geforce 2 waterblock onto my shiny new Titan XP. Took the better part of a day slowly dremelling away, but got there in end...
Enjoy...
Filthy old Innovatek VGA waterblock! Modded ages ages with crazy blue plastic barbs that I hard glued in permanently. Missing 1 scew, naturally.
Started with cutting some deepish grooves into the otherwise smooth waterblock. Also added a rubber strip in to force water flow through the grooves.
Shiny!
Cute!
Proper Ghetto. My drill bit wouldn't cut through the metal for some reason so had to bash nails at it till I punched hole for 2 of the right hand holes here. I mean I could have driven half an hour down the road and back and got some new drill bits, but this felt like the better approach at the time.
Nearly ready. I actually put the rest of the shroud back on after this photo, since it fitted, albeit minus the window pane.
...and all setup and running.
I took the back plates off for better cooling. Was well impressed to see the special small screws it has just for the backplate, so removal doesn't interfere with the rest of the retention bracket at all. Very neat.
Das Radiator.
And after all that it barely got me much more overclocking!
Whilst I didn't really push it much on air before, I was on about ~ +100/+500 I think stable. Now I'm at +190/+600. So not the amazing improvement I'd hoped for, but not bad really. I'm running that Nvidia dawn demo right, of all things, and the core's sitting at 2038mhz, and 5602mhz (11.2 Gbps effective) on the mem. *Update*, just to add, running with these settings in Uniengine Valley it sits at 2100mhz on the core. Very nice. Core temp is ~40°c. This is stable in a bunch of games I've been playing over the last hour or so, Nets me 7,584 3DMarky Marks, for what it's worth.
Memory overclock was a noticable gain from watercooling. I was kinda expecting to be honest, having seen the same effect on past cards. I think the boost comes from the fact the memory controller is alot cooler under water, which is actualyl what fails first, not the ram chips necessarily. Maybe it just helps voltage regulation, plus the mem itself is likely cooler without a hot heatsink above. Underclocking the mem doesn't help gain on the core any more, so pushing it on my card doesn't hinder the core it seems.
I had already ordered a proper EK wateblock, but now questioning that given the relatively small boost I've got. Not sure if a full cover block would make much more difference. But I aim to tally that upgrade with a vGPU and vMEM mod so pretty sure that'll make a difference...
Cheers!
So I finally got round to modding an old Innovatek Geforce 2 waterblock onto my shiny new Titan XP. Took the better part of a day slowly dremelling away, but got there in end...
Enjoy...
Filthy old Innovatek VGA waterblock! Modded ages ages with crazy blue plastic barbs that I hard glued in permanently. Missing 1 scew, naturally.
Started with cutting some deepish grooves into the otherwise smooth waterblock. Also added a rubber strip in to force water flow through the grooves.
Shiny!
Cute!
Proper Ghetto. My drill bit wouldn't cut through the metal for some reason so had to bash nails at it till I punched hole for 2 of the right hand holes here. I mean I could have driven half an hour down the road and back and got some new drill bits, but this felt like the better approach at the time.
Nearly ready. I actually put the rest of the shroud back on after this photo, since it fitted, albeit minus the window pane.
...and all setup and running.
I took the back plates off for better cooling. Was well impressed to see the special small screws it has just for the backplate, so removal doesn't interfere with the rest of the retention bracket at all. Very neat.
Das Radiator.
And after all that it barely got me much more overclocking!
Whilst I didn't really push it much on air before, I was on about ~ +100/+500 I think stable. Now I'm at +190/+600. So not the amazing improvement I'd hoped for, but not bad really. I'm running that Nvidia dawn demo right, of all things, and the core's sitting at 2038mhz, and 5602mhz (11.2 Gbps effective) on the mem. *Update*, just to add, running with these settings in Uniengine Valley it sits at 2100mhz on the core. Very nice. Core temp is ~40°c. This is stable in a bunch of games I've been playing over the last hour or so, Nets me 7,584 3DMarky Marks, for what it's worth.
Memory overclock was a noticable gain from watercooling. I was kinda expecting to be honest, having seen the same effect on past cards. I think the boost comes from the fact the memory controller is alot cooler under water, which is actualyl what fails first, not the ram chips necessarily. Maybe it just helps voltage regulation, plus the mem itself is likely cooler without a hot heatsink above. Underclocking the mem doesn't help gain on the core any more, so pushing it on my card doesn't hinder the core it seems.
I had already ordered a proper EK wateblock, but now questioning that given the relatively small boost I've got. Not sure if a full cover block would make much more difference. But I aim to tally that upgrade with a vGPU and vMEM mod so pretty sure that'll make a difference...
Cheers!
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