water cooled 8800gt

[rangerone766]

going to order a maze5 block for my card. but i still need small sinks for the mem and vr's. my question is, are there enough sinks to cover everything that needs covered in these 2 kits?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835108071

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835108094

or do i need anything else?

also my radiator is a MCR220 dual 120mm fan. will that be overloading my rad with a q6600, my x38 nb, and the gpu running on the loop?

currently running a q6600@3.8 with 1.44 volts, idling at 27c load at 55c

[sneekypeet]

Ok 2 things to tell you.

#1 did you get your maze 4 yet? if not I do have 2 im selling shortly as soon as I get them off my 7600GT's tonight.

#2 if you have a radioshack close to you I have found they sell a set of RAM sinks that are copper, and work well. I believe they are made by Thermaltake. (cant find pic online) IIRC they are like 7.99.

But I did run across a set of Zalman sinks for 9.99 as well...http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2297182&cp=2032061.2063031.2063071&allCount=109&fbn=Type%2FHeatsink&f=PAD%2FProduct+Type%2FHeatsink&fbc=1&parentPage=family

[rangerone766]

i mistyped its the maze5 that fits the 8800gt. i also found ramsinks much cheaper than neweggs price. i've used the zalman sinks before and the stick very well but they seem to only look pretty, not dissapate much heat.

the swiftech's are worth the few extra buxs as they have allowed more oc on the mem of my old x800 compared to the zalmans.

i'll look into the maze4 if it fits i'd be interested.

[intel igent]

too much heatload for the 220

swiftech makes a ramsink kit specifically for that card (basically those two kits you linked but complete together with extra 2 or 4 extra mc14) IIRC

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=22448&vpn=MC8800-SET&manufacture=Swiftech

there ya go ;)

[sneekypeet]

NP let me know.

[rangerone766]

i was worried about the heatload. maybe i'll just get the hr03-gt. anyone know if its instock anywhere yet? in the us btw

[a_ump]

um this is nice and all but i thought this was about a water cooled GT and it doesn't appear to be and if it is u should c how far u can oc it that's wat i want to c

[rangerone766]

on the stock hs, i can bench at 740/1836/1015 prolly go a bit higher but no point

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4553/389yw4.jpg
By rangerone7669 (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/rangerone7669) at 2007-11-21

i'll run 06 real quick

[trt740]

the 8800 gt is much cooler running than the rest of the 8800 series card because the die is shrunk and it uses less power. The only reason it runs hot on air is the crappy cooler on it. It won't take much to cool it. With an accelero s1 mine never went over 40c and idled at 32c

[trt740]

i was worried about the heatload. maybe i'll just get the hr03-gt. anyone know if its instock anywhere yet? in the us btw

Here is a bunch these coolers all work the accerleo si is the best.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=43995

[rangerone766]

heres my 06 run
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4288/06fastno4.jpg
By rangerone7669 (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/rangerone7669) at 2007-11-25

keep in mind i could bench higher, but i can also game all day long at these speeds. i did mod the bios for a bit more vcore.

[trt740]

heres my 06 run
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4288/06fastno4.jpg
By rangerone7669 (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/rangerone7669) at 2007-11-25

keep in mind i could bench higher, but i can also game all day long at these speeds. i did mod the bios for a bit more vcore.


here is mine with a accerlero s1 and turbo pack fans

http://img.techpowerup.org/071125/8800gt.jpg

[rangerone766]

lol my quad takes stupid high vcore to get 4.0 or better also. even on water, core temp showes 70c on 2 cores but the other 2 only load up to 59c.

what temp is too hot on these quads?

[trt740]

even at 3.7gh broke 16000 with my video card at theses setting with air cooler. I didn't keep the card sold made 65.00 or so after fees bought it for 249.00 sold it for 320 used. I'm going back to ati because I have a crossfire/ ATI video card chipset motherboard.

[trt740]

great cards those 8800 gt's

[Chewy]

well have to have a bech competion lol I just got the 8800gts 112sp :P more ram for my higher res :P and I'm testing my q6600 on air atm :P.. 2 more days and my new gts should arrive :D got it over the 8800gt because I play @ 1680x1050.

Also trt and Rangerone.. can you tell how good yoru quads going to overclock by its VID in core temp? thought I heard that b4? my VID is 1.1625v.. In my asus p5k bios it says my cpu volt is 1.201v... I havent bother trying to overclock just testing the rig on air/stock to make sure everything works.

[trt740]

well have to have a bech competion lol I just got the 8800gts 112sp :P more ram for my higher res :P and I'm testing my q6600 on air atm :P.. 2 more days and my new gts should arrive :D got it over the 8800gt because I play @ 1680x1050.

Also trt and Rangerone.. can you tell how good yoru quads going to overclock by its VID in core temp? thought I heard that b4? my VID is 1.1625v.. In my asus p5k bios it says my cpu volt is 1.201v... I havent bother trying to overclock just testing the rig on air/stock to make sure everything works.

sorry guys you will never beat this score with a single gt from giorgos th.

http://img.techpowerup.org/071125/062nd6.jpg

[Chewy]

what were his overclocks at? yeah I most likely wont ever catch a 8800gt @ low res.. wouldnt mind seeing what the differance is @ higher res 1680x1050.

[trt740]

what were his overclocks at? yeah I most likely wont ever catch a 8800gt @ low res.. wouldnt mind seeing what the differance is @ higher res 1680x1050.

send him a PM he will tell you

[rangerone766]

my vid is 1.275 i alsays get unlucky. lol

[strick94u]

what were his overclocks at? yeah I most likely wont ever catch a 8800gt @ low res.. wouldnt mind seeing what the differance is @ higher res 1680x1050.

Don't matter theres more to life than benchmarking you can't convince me thats stable. :twitch:

[Chewy]

^^ thanks. I normally get unlucky, hopfully this time I got real Lucky :P upgraded to a quad for free shipping on an order.. I wonder how the gts will do clock for clock against the gt..? both having 112sp's.. been looking arond it seems the gt can easily hit 700mhz whick the gts prob cant.. I never overclocked my old 8800gts.. didnt see a need to till Crysis.. I will be overclocking this one LOL. Maybe this weekend my new build will be finished.

Edit: umm well ready for loop testing LOL, hopfully its done by the end of the weekend :P.

[trt740]

Don't matter theres more to life than benchmarking you can't convince me thats stable. :twitch:

why don't you ask him . I don't think the point of benching is stability it is to see how high you can run the program, you bring this up every time someone post a bench it's getting old. The world record benches are not stable but i don't believe thats the point.

[Chewy]

^^ true true. Im not much of a bencher as you can tell, as long as I can set the game setting up very high with decent frames thats all that matters.

A max bench can give you an idea as to what your max stable clocks would be.. stable clocks are where its at for everyday app use. :P LOL

[freeboy]

I am useing, soon at least, the maze 5, and was going to forgoe the heatsinks in favor of directed air... I find passive no substitute for forced air blown direcly on teh area to be cooled, am I off?

[Chewy]

I am useing, soon at least, the maze 5, and was going to forgoe the heatsinks in favor of directed air... I find passive no substitute for forced air blown direcly on teh area to be cooled, am I off?

you should use the sinks and have air blowing on them.. not sure if you meant you were going to not use sinks on your ram and just use direct air? you should use the sinks on your ram and vregs though.. Im going to have a fan in my pci slot area to cool them some more.

[freeboy]

testing soon

[sneekypeet]

http://www.dangerden.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9764

Did a bit of homework on the subject of using a Maze 4....Look at the last post but the DD admin. He satates the maze4 and 5 have the same mounts. Just up to you on what block you would like better.

Also read that post carefully as they do mention something about the Vregs.

[trt740]

[QUOTE=strick94u;546421]Benchmarking is fun but stability in a system during work and game play is more important than benchmark numbers. Please link us to all those times I have talked about stability after someone benchmarked their system

Okay now that I posted the 3 times I found you saying in posts that benchmarking is not useful unless it is stable after someone benched, and there are several more (which took all of three minutes to find) lets get back on topic, you have made that point several times, and as I and others have told you benchmarking is generally used to see how far we can push our computer components and is not generally used for stability or dry ice wouldn't be used in world records. Now if you delete the above post the thread will be cleaned and back on topic the only reason I posted them was because you asked for some of them.

[Porris]

Greeting from the cold Finland. As the weather, I'd like to have my card as cool as our climate. :)

TRT: Are you using some kind of fan with that Accelero S1, or is it just the Accelero? Did you change anything else than the cooler?

I might be getting my Asus GF8800 GT soon here in Finland (finally, yay!) and was wondering if it will be silent as in 0 db with that Acc S1.

In my town there's at least one vendor (wow! :D) to sell the accelero, but I want to make sure it is the same that you guys are using..

Here's a pic: http://www.coolputer.fi/tuotekuvat/1944.jpg

and here's short spec:
Compatibility:
ATI: X1950, X1900, X1800 series
nVIDIA: GeForce 7950, 7900, 7800, 6800 series (not 7X00 GS AGP)
* Noiseless Cooling
* 4 Heat Pipes
* Special Heat Spreader for Voltage Regulator Cooling
* Memory Cooling
* High Reliability
* Low Weight
* 6 Years Warranty

Link to whole product: http://www.coolputer.fi/tiedot.asp?t=1944

Ty already

EDIT: I plan to run the ASUS GF8800GT as default, not overclocked.

[{JNT}Raptor]

Here's a pic: http://www.coolputer.fi/tuotekuvat/1944.jpg



Thats the Accelero all right....also the HR-03 Revision A will also fit like a glove and cool the same way(Both Using Fans of course)....just another option to cool the card Is all......plus....you eventually should at least toss another 50Mhz on the core.....trust me.....It'll do It without sweating.....most of us 8800gt owners can get to 740Mhz on the core with Zero Issues......just a thought.

Good luck with yours. :rockout:

[Porris]

If I want to make it as silent as possible with air cooling my best pick would be the AccS1 or HR-03A? Or...? :)

Any idea how powerful fan it will need then?

Papst 3412N/2GLL:
Flow: 19,4CFM
Noise: 12dB
RPM: 1150

Adda AD0912DF:
Flow: 24CFM
Noise: 15,5dB
RPM: 1300

There's two thats quite silent. At least that HR-03A can get 92mm fan attached to it. How about the AccS1?

[{JNT}Raptor]

If I want to make it as silent as possible with air cooling my best pick would be the AccS1 or HR-03A? Or...? :)

Any idea how powerful fan it will need then?

Papst 3412N/2GLL:
Flow: 19,4CFM
Noise: 12dB
RPM: 1150

Adda AD0912DF:
Flow: 24CFM
Noise: 15,5dB
RPM: 1300

There's two thats quite silent. At least that HR-03A can get 92mm fan attached to it. How about the AccS1?

Your not going to lose out either way.....either of the 2 will give you roughly the same temps........trt ran with the Accelero and never got load temps past 44c.....same here....and we both had/have decent overclocks on the card.....at my speeds I never get over 44-46c...just an FYI...ATI tool doesn't stress this card enough...If you want to see true temps.....use a full screen HDR rendering benchmark....ATI Tool max temp for me was 44c....Running the HDR benchmark at 16x Multisampling full screen 1680x1050 got me to 46c.

Enjoy the card. :)

[trt740]

[QUOTE=Porris;547922]Greeting from the cold Finland. As the weather, I'd like to have my card as cool as our climate. :)

TRT: Are you using some kind of fan with that Accelero S1, or is it just the Accelero? Did you change anything else than the cooler?

I might be getting my Asus GF8800 GT soon here in Finland (finally, yay!) and was wondering if it will be silent as in 0 db with that Acc S1.

In my town there's at least one vendor (wow! :D) to sell the accelero, but I want to make sure it is the same that you guys are using and not some wannabe Acc S1..

Here's a pic: http://www.coolputer.fi/tuotekuvat/1944.jpg Accelero S1 120 mm on a 8800 gt

and here's short spec:
Compatibility:

I tested both the turbo pack and a 120 mm Ac12 fan both cooled well but with the 120 mm fan allowed my memory overclocked higher due to a higher cf rating.


http://img.techpowerup.org/071127/Photo_110807_001592.jpg this was the first time I mounted the 120 mm fan later I straightened the pull ties and cleaned it up a bit but here is the photo to give you an Idea. The Accelero S1 cools the best I've seen along with Thermalright hro3 revision A and now I just bought a 8800 gt with a deal on a Thermatake Dual Orb. From what I see the dual orb cools about 10 degrees worse than the accelero but does get some style points for looks plus is SLI compatable. So we will soon know first hand how well a dual orb cools a 8800 gt. Also another option is this cooler a Thermalright v1

http://img.techpowerup.org/071127/inno3d_8800gt_512mb_22.jpg Thermalright V2 on a 8800 gt link to were you can buy it in USA http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/thv2covgacof.html

it fits and from the reviews and I read does very well , not aswell as a Acceleros1 and turbo pack but it's alot smaller and SLI compatable (according to Thermalright it's not but as you can see in the photo it's on a gt and won a performance comparison with several other coolers on a gt). Whats killing me is when Thermalright who makes both the V2 and H03 revsion A says they won't cool well enough and that you need a HR-03 GT because it has 6 heapipes. When the 8800 gt runs much cooler than a 7900 gtx, 8800 gtx, 8800 gts and x1900 series GPU's and the V2 and Hr03 rev A can cool all of them without any problems, because of the 8800 gt's smaller die size and less power required to operate these cooler can infact cool this gpu very well WTF ?
Seems to me Thermalright is being down right dishonest and trying to sell a Vga cooler thats straight overkill.

[HeavyH20]

BTW, here is a shot of an 8800 GT watercooled by the Swiftech MCW60.

The MCW60 in stock configuration is fully compatible with nVidia® 8800GT. 10 MC14 heatsinks, and 1 MC21 are used here to cool the memory, and voltage regulators.

http://www.swiftech.com/assets/images/products/MCW60/nvidiaGeforce8800GTx375.gif

[trt740]

BTW, here is a shot of an 8800 GT watercooled by the Swiftech MCW60.



http://www.swiftech.com/assets/images/products/MCW60/nvidiaGeforce8800GTx375.gif

very cool

[rangerone766]

i ended up getting a hr03-gt, it should be here in a few days. i didnt feel like tearing my water kit apart just yet. i'll report temps when i get it.

but if you think its overkill with 6 heatpipes, it may be just as good as water.

[strick94u]

i ended up getting a hr03-gt, it should be here in a few days. i didnt feel like tearing my water kit apart just yet. i'll report temps when i get it.

but if you think its overkill with 6 heatpipes, it may be just as good as water.

Great choice I ordered the same for my new Gt hoping to get the best of both worlds also.
Overkill is good ;)

[trt740]

i ended up getting a hr03-gt, it should be here in a few days. i didnt feel like tearing my water kit apart just yet. i'll report temps when i get it.

but if you think its overkill with 6 heatpipes, it may be just as good as water.

no thats not it at all what I ment was 32c idle 44c load is unreal to begin with anything lower will make little difference and your paying about 12.00 more for very little if any performance increase over the Hr-03 revision A and about 30.00+ more than the Accelero s1 for little or no performance gain.

[strick94u]

A little bit more for better construction is worth it I think.

[trt740]

i ended up getting a hr03-gt, it should be here in a few days. i didnt feel like tearing my water kit apart just yet. i'll report temps when i get it.

but if you think its overkill with 6 heatpipes, it may be just as good as water.

don't get me wrong everything Thermalright makes is quality

[HeavyH20]

[QUOTE=trt740;546154]sorry guys you will never beat this score with a single gt from giorgos th.

An 800 plus core clock is awesome on the GT. Best I have been able to manage on the stock cooler is 755 and 16,088 in 3Dmark06. 17K is incredible for a single mid range card.

[freeboy]

ok, update on the Maze 5 took some nice pics. boy does that crappy Thick material they use at the factory sux or what? looks like moist cotton! mobo failed, so I did a full on water test.. what a mess, lots of noob errors.. but when the new mobo comes in I will fill a properly seeled system.. bleeb and take some more pix..

per the ? above re active cooling vs heatsinks. active cooling by blowing cool air is ALWAYS more effective than pasive onely.. of course both is best...