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Water Cooling X1800XT

TurnX

TurnX

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So im setting up a water cooling system and including my X1800XT in it. I got the Swiftech MCW55 VGA Water block for the card and it fits on their fine, funny though the supplied ATI mounting hardware would not work with the x1800xt but the supplied nvidia hardware mounted it just fine, but anyway....
I picked up some ram sinks for the ram chips and they all work fine. My question is there is another chip, between the DVI conector and the GPU itself, that was attached the the stock cooler with the same thermal pads the ram chips were. Now I only got a pack of 8 ram sinks so I dont have anything left to put on it. Would it be okay to leave it and not put any kind of heat sink on it, or should I buy something for it? I do have a small heat sink I found on an old video card that would sorta work for it, but id rather not take apart the old card unless I have to. Thanks for any help.
 
u gonna oc? then maybe u should

but if ur just gonna leave it at stock or a little oc, it shoudlnt be a problem but thats just my opinion


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Must be an external DVI chip for the Crossfire functionality. I wouldn't think that it would get too hot and overclocking shouldn't affect it at all. I would try the ram sink first and see how it works, if it's not enough you might have to get more creative.
 
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