Post by neoclasiccl on Jan 26, 2007 12:12:18 GMT
The new rig I built runs crazy hot so I decided to tame it down. Temps like 80deg Celcius on the video cards weren't making me very happy. Plus it was turning my room into a sauna.
Well I decided to get rid of all the fans from the mother board and video cards. The only fans left in the case are the 80mm fans, hard drive cooler fans, and 120mm case fans.
Since I am running a 1600mhz (3.6ghz core speed) front side bus on the system the North bridge was getting up to almost 60deg C. So it was time to just cool all three chips on the board (CPU, NB, and SB) and to keep the 8800gtx's in check with the new danger den GPU water blocks.
After the install temps on the NB and video cards went down about 15 deg C at idle and the video cards went down by over 20 deg C at load. Much better now.
The greatest thing is how quiet I can run it now with the case fan speed control turned down.
Here are the pics
8800gtx's with new water blocks below
Heat sink removed
The monster G80 GPU. This thing has to be 3 or 4 times the size of a modern CPU. With 681 million transistors it should be LOL.
water block installed (very time consuming since you have to coat all 12 ram chips and various other stuff on the board with thermal)
Mother board with all three chipset water blocks. One for the CPU one for the northbridge, and one for the southbridge.
Tubing finished start to fill and test for leaks
complete
Well I decided to get rid of all the fans from the mother board and video cards. The only fans left in the case are the 80mm fans, hard drive cooler fans, and 120mm case fans.
Since I am running a 1600mhz (3.6ghz core speed) front side bus on the system the North bridge was getting up to almost 60deg C. So it was time to just cool all three chips on the board (CPU, NB, and SB) and to keep the 8800gtx's in check with the new danger den GPU water blocks.
After the install temps on the NB and video cards went down about 15 deg C at idle and the video cards went down by over 20 deg C at load. Much better now.
The greatest thing is how quiet I can run it now with the case fan speed control turned down.
Here are the pics
8800gtx's with new water blocks below
Heat sink removed
The monster G80 GPU. This thing has to be 3 or 4 times the size of a modern CPU. With 681 million transistors it should be LOL.
water block installed (very time consuming since you have to coat all 12 ram chips and various other stuff on the board with thermal)
Mother board with all three chipset water blocks. One for the CPU one for the northbridge, and one for the southbridge.
Tubing finished start to fill and test for leaks
complete
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