8500 finally water cooled.

illbreakit

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I finally got my AAA that I ordered a month ago. It seems that up here in western Canada, noone overclocks but me. Well, noone knows what Artic Silver is, let alone Artic Alumina Adhesive.

Anyways, I can finally get 305/310 on my retail 8500. Now on to the volt mod

 

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Darn, I tried putting a frezer pack in my res to cool a little more. Got temps 3 deg lower, but I still couldn't go 305/310. Guess I need the volt mod sooner than I thought LOL

 

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nice job ibt looks good , and i know what you mean about gettin o/c stuff in Canada must have drove 30 miles round the city one day till i found Arctic Silver =)

 

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I looks good neat job. if u have an aircon try ducting it to the reservoir to get lower temps.

 

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illbreakit said:

I finally got my AAA that I ordered a month ago. It seems that up here in western Canada, noone overclocks but me. Well, noone knows what Artic Silver is, let alone Artic Alumina Adhesive.

Anyways, I can finally get 305/310 on my retail 8500. Now on to the volt mod

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Can't beat h20 cooling, btw what GPU block did you use on the 8500?

 

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I built my own. It has a 3/16" thick copper bottom the size of the gpu, and a 3/4" thick Allum. top. 1 1/4" hole in the Allum. Fresh water goes into the center of the hole, straight down on gpu top, then exit's out the side.

 

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here's a pick. bad corel draw skills

 

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Erm?

Odd.. my retail 8500 can do 306/315 without any mods and air.

 

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yea... i would think you could get a little higher with watercooling.

My OEM Radeon can get 285/290 and its got the 4ns ram and stuff. It's normally 250/250, so I'm happy.

That's just with a custom air mod.... old heatsink... and a 23cfm sunon fan.

 

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Re: Erm?

Hurk said:

Odd.. my retail 8500 can do 306/315 without any mods and air.

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same here. i can do 310/315 with stock cooling and no mods, im having a hard time trying to figure out why some people are having so much trouble getting over 300/300....i guess some people are just luckier with hardware than others

 

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you might try flashing to a few different bioses..

i did this and it helped considerably..increase of 20-30mhz in memory timing

 

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cynergy said:

you might try flashing to a few different bioses..

i did this and it helped considerably..increase of 20-30mhz in memory timing

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Where did you get your bios? The only one I found was to convert a OEM to retail speeds, didn't help me at all.
MIne's got the 3.6ns ram if that makes any diference. I have heard that the 3.3ns is the oneto get but when you buy at Future Shop, you can't look at the cards first. Boxes are all shrink wrapped. I even returned my first one(I know, I know, but I wasn't broken) I just was hoping that I would get a better one. No dice.

BTW, is your speeds on 3Dmark2001se, or desktop? I can go up alot higher on just desktop, but it shuts down comp halfway through benchmark.

 

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skinart said:

nice job ibt looks good , and i know what you mean about gettin o/c stuff in Canada must have drove 30 miles round the city one day till i found Arctic Silver =)

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Well at least you managed to find it, here in Pretoria i go from 'dealer' to 'dealer' asking for Arctic Silver and i get question if i got the name right or they tell me tht there is no difference between the stuff...'No dont worry this stuff is all the same'...Ha what ever.

Wommalong

 

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8500's

Seems the 128mb models with bga ram OC pretty well. Mine does 315 without aritfacts and can handle 3dmark. Unfortunately I don't think I mounted the old pentium HSF on the gpu very well. It's about twice as tall as ATI's gpu cooler with much more surface area, but I can't get my core much above 290 without 3dmark "losing focus".

I use tweakmonster ramsinks (non-bga size) on the memory. I had volt-modded my previous OEM card with resistors and flashed it to the retail bios, but it slowly started to die, and in removing the resistors, I tore off a solder pad. d'oh! Luckily I was able to unscrupulously cover my handiwork and return the card for credit claiming a tragic cpu HSF accident had occurred. I did purchase quite a bit of hardware from the vendor in order to dull my guilt. And I'm pretty happy now with the 128mb model. Both of my 8500's had/have 3.6ns ram.

 

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For those of who oc their cards far off without proper cooling, STOP IT!! I oced my retail 128mb 8500le from 250/250 to 306/312 with stock cooling device, meaning the lame ati hsf it came and nothing on top of the rams, for two months, then the ram finally crapped out on me. I am in the process of RAMing the card back to ati for a new replacement...