The 8800GTX....

[foolfromhell]

I read a week ago that the 8800GTX had water-cooling and fan from the manufacturer.
I cant find one with water-cooling.
I am setting up a computer with an 8800GTX, and I expected water cooling, but the EVGA one doesnt have it.
Can someone explain it to me?

 

[Raider1284]

Ther is a BFG model that has watercooling. As far as a I know BFG is the only one with watercooling on it. EVGA has a nice different heatsink but no watercooling.

 

[foolfromhell]

How much difference is there between the BFG Water cooling and EVGA's new technology in heatsinks?

 

[Ayah]

All they do is mount a waterblock to the GPU. Nothing that special.
Proper water will of course win over air.

 

[ZzZGuy]

The BFG one has the option of coming with a water block attached with a price difference of $153 US (by itself, the waterblock is $140 US, based on ncix.com), i don't know of any setup on a 8800 GTX with a complete mini water cooling system. I belive there is water cooling system that can drop the temp to -10c / 32f and is silent, but i don't even want to imagine the cost of it.

The x1950 XTX does however, but i would imagine it's not much more (if at all) effective then air cooling due to the radiator not being any larger and still air cooled.

Unless your planing on some serious overclocking, stick with the stock. I've seen one good reviews (for a stock cooler) of the stock cooler for the EVGA and the rest look like the same one, nothing negative yet.

 

[foolfromhell]

Thanks all. Ordering parts tommorow!

 

[enz660hp]

you mean like in this photo? Yeah, I guess they changed their mind? Or it was probably more nvidia misinformation