I'm waiting on my 6800gt to get here next week and I'm also steadily ramping up to a water cooled system. One of the problems I'm seeing is that the only water block for the 6800gt is the Danger Den one and it's just too damned expensive. $30 maybe.. but not $50-100 bleh. So I thought I'd try and do my own.
Of course the final design never is as clean as it is on paper unless you're a terrible artist or on professional equipment (har har). Since I don't have my 6800gt in my hand yet I just went off measurments and photos I found online. Looking at this block, how effective do you think it would be overall?
As you can see I'm not running water compeletely over one of the ram chips, I'm not sure if that would have an adverse effect on any overclock I do. I tried to keep the flow as smooth as possible.
For the GPU flow I gave it 4 channels. Not sure if that would be sufficient either. I can always add a couple more in. The water will come down the left and catch on each channel and be directed back up. Do I want more flow or more turbulence?
Anyway.. any ideas or comments? Thanks
Of course the final design never is as clean as it is on paper unless you're a terrible artist or on professional equipment (har har). Since I don't have my 6800gt in my hand yet I just went off measurments and photos I found online. Looking at this block, how effective do you think it would be overall?
As you can see I'm not running water compeletely over one of the ram chips, I'm not sure if that would have an adverse effect on any overclock I do. I tried to keep the flow as smooth as possible.
For the GPU flow I gave it 4 channels. Not sure if that would be sufficient either. I can always add a couple more in. The water will come down the left and catch on each channel and be directed back up. Do I want more flow or more turbulence?
Anyway.. any ideas or comments? Thanks