- Joined
- Jan 7, 2003
- Location
- Los Angeles
After installing my 7800 GTX and watching the temperature on both the CPU and the Card go sky high, I decided enough is enough - I'm going H20.
Best decision ever made, well instead of spending numerous hours on this board researching about water cooling, I just went to Fry's and picked up the most expensive product they have.
In my case, it is the Zalman Reserator 1
I bought the VGA water block because that was the main reason why I went to H20, but the screws didn't fit my card.. so I had to put the damn thing together again
Anyways, the temps at full load is 41C - and 29-30 at Idle.
BIG improvement from 48C Idle, and 58-60C full load.
I guess next step for me is bumping the FSB up a little higher - now that heat isn't a problem
Btw, I fixed the bad benchmark scores in Aquamark3; turns out "Windows automatic update" was bogging my system down. Turn that puppy off, and I'm almost at 90k on Aquamark3
Anyone know what Waterblock to buy for my VGA card?
Best decision ever made, well instead of spending numerous hours on this board researching about water cooling, I just went to Fry's and picked up the most expensive product they have.
In my case, it is the Zalman Reserator 1
I bought the VGA water block because that was the main reason why I went to H20, but the screws didn't fit my card.. so I had to put the damn thing together again
Anyways, the temps at full load is 41C - and 29-30 at Idle.
BIG improvement from 48C Idle, and 58-60C full load.
I guess next step for me is bumping the FSB up a little higher - now that heat isn't a problem
Btw, I fixed the bad benchmark scores in Aquamark3; turns out "Windows automatic update" was bogging my system down. Turn that puppy off, and I'm almost at 90k on Aquamark3
Anyone know what Waterblock to buy for my VGA card?