jedihobbit
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 Posted: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:24:06 Post Subject: |
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Early March ‘til Early Summer
Story behind the GPU.....
In the beginning the original GPU was an Evga 8800GT SC, but I wanted to max the folding abilities so tracked down a G92 variant of the GTS. The big concern was if the water block would match and went on a wing and a prayer!
We start out by looking at the GTS I acquired……front, back side (lots of screws!!), and cover sticker removed. Nothing like “custom” coolers! Then you have it with the cooler removed……….
   
And guess what? There isn’t that much of a difference! Here you have the back side with the GT on the bottom and then from the front side…….can you see the “obvious” difference? A minor concern I have/had with this particular card is the fact the area under the screws seemed corroded.
  
For me the major physical dif, from what I see, is in the VR area with more and larger chips for the GTS…..
 
In looking at the backside of the GTS cooler it appears a lot of thought went into the casting as unlike a lot of gpu coolers both the memory and VR chips have “individual” contact surfaces as opposed to relying on just a large flat area with “hope it makes contact”.
 
And of course half the question is answered as here we have the GTS cooler mounted on the GT. In running GPU folding it appears the GT is actually a few degrees cooler than when it had its own cooler mounted.
So on to the water cooling block!! I ordered the version with the clear plex cover as I wanted to see the coolant in the block. Sadly how much one can see the gpu block will have a major impact on wither DC v3 is in the SOG 01 or 03! Love the look of the brass and there will be no trouble to see who made it and what it is for…….then attached.
    
In doing a dummy assembly using my dead NF-M2 mobo and the gpu I will not be able to exit out the back of the block as I originally wanted to. It’ll have to go around the end of the card like it did with the Twinplex water block
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As of 02/01/11
DreamCatcher AM3 >> (Down Again) >> SG01 Evo, MSI 785GM-E65, PII X4 955(AQ H2O Cooled), XFX GTX285(EK H2O Cooled), Seagate 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB, 2 x G.S. F3-12800CL7D-2GBPI, MODU82+ EMD525AWT, XP Home SP2
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Oz1a v2.0 >> XFX MDA72P7509 750a, PI X2 8870BE, 2 x XFX GTS250, WD 250GB, F2-8500CL5D-2GBPK, Tt TR2 600W, XP Pro SP3 |
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