watercooling for 6800 gt

[moonboy403]

which kit works the best with the gt?
suggestions of brand and website?
if someone can post their result of before and after?

 

[Ackmed]

I have the Innovatek block, it cools the GPU+Ram. Got it at www.highspeedpc.com for $125 or so. Before was 87c load, and 58c ambient. Now its 71c load, and 35c ambient. My temps should drop a little more once I get ride of this foam problem. :sigh:

edit, I havent tried to get my max overclock yet, which I guess is what you want. My core used to do 420Mhz on the stock cooler, Ill try to get the max tomorrow.

 

[pirred908]

I think the best block is the MAZE 4.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
I have the Innovatek block, it cools the GPU+Ram. Got it at www.highspeedpc.com for $125 or so. Before was 87c load, and 58c ambient. Now its 71c load, and 35c ambient. My temps should drop a little more once I get ride of this foam problem. :sigh:

edit, I havent tried to get my max overclock yet, which I guess is what you want. My core used to do 420Mhz on the stock cooler, Ill try to get the max tomorrow.

im at 427/1.18 and i am 52C idle and 60C load. EVGA stock cooler...

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: Ackmed
I have the Innovatek block, it cools the GPU+Ram. Got it at www.highspeedpc.com for $125 or so. Before was 87c load, and 58c ambient. Now its 71c load, and 35c ambient. My temps should drop a little more once I get ride of this foam problem. :sigh:

edit, I havent tried to get my max overclock yet, which I guess is what you want. My core used to do 420Mhz on the stock cooler, Ill try to get the max tomorrow.

im at 427/1.18 and i am 52C idle and 60C load. EVGA stock cooler...

How are you measureing your load temps? because that is the best I have ever heard on a stock cooler on load.

Are you using rivera tuner? to monitor the temps while playing? or are you playing a game then exiting and looking it up quickly in the settings. Because then your temps will be WAY off as they cool down very quickly. For me Far Cry does the best job of getting a max temp. MUCH better than rhtbl or whatever it is.

 

[nick1985]

i am just using the regular overclocking tool that comes the the EVGA card. its in the settings advanced tab. i measure as soon as im done with doom3 and 3dmark03

 

[Ackmed]

You are not at 60c under full load. You cant just run a game and exit it and look at the temps. You have to look at them in real time, like when running rthdribl.

 

[Tchami]

How do you guys think a Zalman ZM-GWB1 (http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/p...sp?idx=90&code=013) will perform as a cooler for a 6800GT card? And would it be able to overclock it to Ultra speeds? The only reviews I've seen of the GWB1 has been on Radeon cards and I'm thinking of buying it along with a 6800GT card.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
You are not at 60c under full load. You cant just run a game and exit it and look at the temps. You have to look at them in real time, like when running rthdribl.

71C load. thanks for the program.

 

[JBT]

Even with rthdribl I don't get as high of temps as when I run Far Cry and then look in the rivera tuner temp monitor which records the last 5 minutes of temps but even so its better than frantically exiting an game and opening the drivers settings hehe.

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: Tchami
How do you guys think a Zalman ZM-GWB1 (http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/p...sp?idx=90&code=013) will perform as a cooler for a 6800GT card? And would it be able to overclock it to Ultra speeds? The only reviews I've seen of the GWB1 has been on Radeon cards and I'm thinking of buying it along with a 6800GT card.

A whole water cooling set up would obviously be better than the GT's cooler.