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- Dec 26, 2007
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- Upstate NY
As usual, I can't resist the urge to tinker, so I have liquid cooled the 3850. The Danger Den Maze4-1 was a perfect fit for the card....I only had to add a small notch on the acrylic back plate to clear the heatsink that I thermal epoxied to the Rialto chip.
The waterblock came with a peltier and a cold block, and I ditched both of those since I didn't want the headache of condensation prevention....and the peltier is just too inefficient.
I previously had a lapped Zalman VF-1000 on the GPU. Temperatures have improved from 59c under full load (folding at home GPU client) to 44c! Since I'm sharing the loop with the CPU, I kept an eye on those temps as well, and only a slight increase from 45c to 47c.
The Rialto chip definately runs hot, even with the small heatsink, I would recommend using something bigger to anyone out there. It still shocks me that they run those chips bare......
Loop config is RES => PUMP => CPU => GPU => RADIATOR => RES
The waterblock came with a peltier and a cold block, and I ditched both of those since I didn't want the headache of condensation prevention....and the peltier is just too inefficient.
I previously had a lapped Zalman VF-1000 on the GPU. Temperatures have improved from 59c under full load (folding at home GPU client) to 44c! Since I'm sharing the loop with the CPU, I kept an eye on those temps as well, and only a slight increase from 45c to 47c.
The Rialto chip definately runs hot, even with the small heatsink, I would recommend using something bigger to anyone out there. It still shocks me that they run those chips bare......
Loop config is RES => PUMP => CPU => GPU => RADIATOR => RES
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