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Added Liquid Cooling to Video card

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H0witzer

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I have a XFX 7800GTX 256Mb. I was concerned about my temps, which were reaching 80-83C when gaming. I was running RivaTuner to keep track of ingame temps. The cooler was stock.

I have a liquid cooling system installed so I thought I would try adding a VGA liquid cooler to it.

I would have thought that adding another chip that runs hot to the liquid cooling system would have brought the temps up... but actually it had the reverse effect. Obviously my liquid cooling system with an active radiator and the tower have more than enough cooling capacity.

My VGA card ran hot. When not under load it would run around... 50ish, and under load it was running at 80-83C. All the heat was being dumped into the box and bringing the tempuratures up. So by adding the VGA card to the liquid cooling system that is now being transfered to the outside reducing overall temps.

Now my in Game GPU Temp is 36-37C

For those of you wondering... I am running a dual core P4 so that's why my CPU temps are as high as they are.... I got a hot one.

I have included a bunch of photos showing the system, screen shots of it under load and not under load... ohhh yeah... and the plasma TV as a monitor...

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2765/frontofpc2uy.jpg
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/217/backofpc1bi.jpg
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6797/vgacoolernoinstalled4vn.jpg
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5672/noload7nm.jpg
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7307/systemunderload1bx.jpg
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6850/42inchplasma9fa.jpg
 
LOL...got them. Just didn't include them when I took that picture. Surprising how much those little puppies heat up too! That's why I have a fan directly over the Video card blowing air in.
 
What's the full name of your cooling system? Been debating about going water but haven't taken the plunge yet. Were you able to O/C your video card farther after the improved cooling?
 
Originally posted by: the Chase
What's the full name of your cooling system? Been debating about going water but haven't taken the plunge yet. Were you able to O/C your video card farther after the improved cooling?
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My run stable at 524/1300 so I would say I can definately up the GPU speed with watercooling. Although the reason for getting watercooling was to reduce noice while still having a powerfull PC.
 
Originally posted by: the Chase
What's the full name of your cooling system? Been debating about going water but haven't taken the plunge yet. Were you able to O/C your video card farther after the improved cooling?
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Mine is a combination. I bought the Thermaltake Rocket first, which is a passive tower. It worked okay but my CPU runs so hot it just wasn't able to handle it well enough. But it does run totally silent. I added a radiator to the mix and that took care of it. I am sure if someone is running a cooler processor like AMD you could get by with the rocket alone if noise is an issue.

 
Yeah I just did that for the photo for my buds to make them jealous. 🙂

I thought I was going to puke after about 5 minutes of UT2004.
 
Increased my ability to overlock it as well. On stock air I was able to run 495/1300 liquid cooled it is 521/1340.

The big difference was the internal temps have dropped on the card and the case etc.
 
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