Just a little 7900GT cooling.

KillingField · May 18th, 2006

I'm not to much into air cooling these days, fan noise bothers me alot, so after I got my new 7900GT I ran a few benchmarks on air cooling to get a baseline on temps and then tore things apart and installed my favorite water cooling solution. On air cooling the fan was very loud and the max load I was hitting was 65c, to hot in my book, now with the water cooling solution my max load temp hasn't gone over 32c, that's a huge inprovment in my book.

**gvblake22** · May 19th, 2006

Beautiful work man. Those RAMsinks look awesome, what do you think of them? And how do you like that shiny new 7900GT?

KillingField · May 19th, 2006

The ram sinks work, they get nice and warm to the touch...........;)
As for the card, I'm still messing with it, it works pretty well and the OC'ing isn't bad, but I'm more used to ATIi products. So this is a bit of a learning curve. I'm getting almost double the bench scores that I was getting with my old X800XL, so that makes me happy and I can now play just about everything with everything turned up on high.

**gvblake22** · May 19th, 2006

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Originally Posted by KillingField

The ram sinks work, they get nice and warm to the touch...........;)
As for the card, I'm still messing with it, it works pretty well and the OC'ing isn't bad, but I'm more used to ATIi products. So this is a bit of a learning curve. I'm getting almost double the bench scores that I was getting with my old X800XL, so that makes me happy and I can now play just about everything with everything turned up on high.

Awesome, sounds like a winner to me! :thup:

**simple_inhibition** · May 19th, 2006

Looks great man! i remember when i went from an X800XL to a 7800GT. i was impressed :D

have you tried the volt mod for it yet? it only requires a conductive paint pen and ill find the link i put up here some time ago that shows you how to do it. the G71 chip is rated to run at 1.4v on the core but the 7900GT only runs it at 1.2v thats where the conductive paint pen comes in handy. with that simple mod people have been getting over 600mhz for the core. some have even approached 700mhz :!:

KillingField · May 19th, 2006

I may go and mod the bios on the card, but I won't mod the card it's self. I already have the bios editor and a few different bios to check out.
I'm not really into hard modding any hardware, I'm just funny that way............;)

Jokerswild · May 19th, 2006

Very nice job that looks great.

RangerXLT8 · May 23rd, 2006

Nice work man! The Swiftech BGA sinks have soo much surface area to keep those memory chips nice n' cool.

Tyreal · May 23rd, 2006

Tell me about it! Swiftech even patented there design because they are so ingenious. The "screw" fins have a MASSIVE amount of surface area its amazing.

KillingField · May 23rd, 2006

I installed a few more heatsinks on the card the other day in a few spots that were running a bit on the hot side. If it gets hot, it gets a sink, in my own system anyway................

Video ram voltage regs.

And a few on the front side just because they got hot to the touch............. :shock:

May 18th, 2006	#1
KillingField Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 94	Just a little 7900GT cooling. I'm not to much into air cooling these days, fan noise bothers me alot, so after I got my new 7900GT I ran a few benchmarks on air cooling to get a baseline on temps and then tore things apart and installed my favorite water cooling solution. On air cooling the fan was very loud and the max load I was hitting was 65c, to hot in my book, now with the water cooling solution my max load temp hasn't gone over 32c, that's a huge inprovment in my book.

May 19th, 2006	#3
KillingField Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 94	The ram sinks work, they get nice and warm to the touch...........;) As for the card, I'm still messing with it, it works pretty well and the OC'ing isn't bad, but I'm more used to ATIi products. So this is a bit of a learning curve. I'm getting almost double the bench scores that I was getting with my old X800XL, so that makes me happy and I can now play just about everything with everything turned up on high. Mountain Mods U2 UFO Chassis / XFX 680 SLi Lt / Intel E6750 / Corsair Dominator PC6400C4D 2 x 1 gig / BFG 8800GT / WD SATAII SE16 250 gig / Lite-On SATA DVD RW / OCZ Game XStream 700w. Cooling: CPU Loop: Thermochill PA120.3 Radiator / Swiftech MCP655 Pump / Swiftech APOGEE GTX / "T" Line GPU Loop: Swiftech MCR120 / Swiftech MCP350 Pump / Swiftech MCW60 / Swiftech Micro Rez.

May 19th, 2006	#5
simple_inhibition socket 939 junkie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In front of my pc in Ft Bragg XD Posts: 1,440 Blog Entries: 1	Looks great man! i remember when i went from an X800XL to a 7800GT. i was impressed :D have you tried the volt mod for it yet? it only requires a conductive paint pen and ill find the link i put up here some time ago that shows you how to do it. the G71 chip is rated to run at 1.4v on the core but the 7900GT only runs it at 1.2v thats where the conductive paint pen comes in handy. with that simple mod people have been getting over 600mhz for the core. some have even approached 700mhz :!: Q6600 @ 3.6ghz (400x9 @ 1.408v) Gigabyte X38-DQ6 2x2GB G-Skill DDR2 1000 @ DDR2 1066 5-5-5-15 2T 2.1v Visiontek HD4870 Seagate 7200.11 500GB 32MB Cache HDD Razer Barracuda AC1 Silverstone DA750 Samsung Dual Layer DVD Burner Lian Li G70WB Thermochill PA120.3\|Swiftech Storm Rev.2\|Swiftech MCP 655

May 19th, 2006	#6
KillingField Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 94	I may go and mod the bios on the card, but I won't mod the card it's self. I already have the bios editor and a few different bios to check out. I'm not really into hard modding any hardware, I'm just funny that way............;) Mountain Mods U2 UFO Chassis / XFX 680 SLi Lt / Intel E6750 / Corsair Dominator PC6400C4D 2 x 1 gig / BFG 8800GT / WD SATAII SE16 250 gig / Lite-On SATA DVD RW / OCZ Game XStream 700w. Cooling: CPU Loop: Thermochill PA120.3 Radiator / Swiftech MCP655 Pump / Swiftech APOGEE GTX / "T" Line GPU Loop: Swiftech MCR120 / Swiftech MCP350 Pump / Swiftech MCW60 / Swiftech Micro Rez.

May 23rd, 2006	#8
RangerXLT8 Worker Ant Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 942	Nice work man! The Swiftech BGA sinks have soo much surface area to keep those memory chips nice n' cool. Quad Core Xeon 3210@3.22ghz GA-EP35C-DS3R 460FSB x 7 -- 60mm Delta fan on NB 2x1gb OCZ3-1333@1380MHZ Sapphire 4870 512mb GDDR5 2x Raptor 150 ADFD RAID 0--WD320YS RE 16mb Storage Samsung Super WriteMaster 20x DVDRW X-Fi eXtremeGamer w\Logitech Z-2300 Silverstone OP650 54A 12v Rail @50C DamgerDen Torture Rack--MC-TDX--Black Ice GTX240--MCP355 Rev 2--Swiftech MicroRes-- Tygon 3603 3/8"ID Logitech G5 - Logitech LX-710 wireless KB Vista Ultimate 64

May 19th, 2006	#2
gvblake22 Modder-ator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tempe Desert Posts: 6,351 Blog Entries: 1	Beautiful work man. Those RAMsinks look awesome, what do you think of them? And how do you like that shiny new 7900GT?

May 19th, 2006	#7
Jokerswild ButtHead Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,047	Very nice job that looks great.

May 23rd, 2006	#9
Tyreal Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 2,557	Tell me about it! Swiftech even patented there design because they are so ingenious. The "screw" fins have a MASSIVE amount of surface area its amazing. I Like Watercooling. D-Tek Fuzion, MCP655, MCR220

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