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post #121 of 205
10/2/08 at 7:30pm
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My water blocks have arrived

should be installed shortly with updated pictures
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post #122 of 205
10/4/08 at 11:12pm
Nice dave
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post #123 of 205
10/6/08 at 4:13pm
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Ok so here are the Pictures of the two Koolance GPU water blocks installation.

New Parts arrived and now ready to go.





Close up of the Kooance GPU Water Block





Close up of the Koolance Water Pump Assembly





Front View of the Koolance Water Block





Rear View of the Koolance Water Block






The Supplied Documents and Thermal Pads for installation, - Docs were OK read them carefully.

Things of note they supplied much more of the thinner grey Thermal pad then what was needed, and some extra of the thicker pink thermal pad.

They also supplied extra mounting screws used for the Dummie Holes.




Here a view of the back of the Water Block once the Thermal Pads were installed.

Most of the thermal pads used were the thicker Pink Pad.






Here is a view of the back of the HD 4870x2 with the back plate removed




Here is a view of the back plate nte the Cooling Thermal Pads used here - this gets used again with the Water Block install.




Here is a view of the Stock Cooling assembly for the HD 4870x2, It was very thick and heavy, I believe in this case the GPU wtare blocks weigh less than the stock Cooling.




Here is a Front view of the HD 4870x2 card with the Cooling Assy removed








Here is a view of the HD 4870x2 with the Kooance Water Block installed




Top view of the assembled Cooling assembly - Note how much thinner it looks now. This has given me alot more room inside the case






Front View of the GPU water Block Installed




Here is a view with Both 4870x2 Cards assembled with the Vid Connect pipe for Crossfire installations







So after assembling everything here a look at the case now








Here is a back view of the Koolance Water Pump in the case.




I took this opportunity to add a third 1 TB Sata Hard Drive




The Kooance Water pump went up in smoke when I powered it up to prime the system, RMA has been submitted

So I had to modify the plumbing to use the thermatake pump which I had dedicated for the CPU Water Block.

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post #124 of 205
10/6/08 at 4:54pm
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Temps now sitting around 37 and 39 degrees.

Compared to well over 80 degrees ambiant and much higher when under load.
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post #125 of 205
10/6/08 at 10:39pm
pretty spiffy dave, nice work on the pictures. I never seem to remember to take pictures of the process. Temps seem fine...how are they under load?

Asking because, my card idles at 42 degrees right now and thats at 810/1020mhz.

Those koolance blocks are alot better than the ones I had with my ExosAl.
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post #126 of 205
10/6/08 at 10:48pm
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Temps stay pretty much the same under load

The only thuing I noticed is that the lastest ATI Cataylist indicates GPU Load at 360 % which of course is not right.

GPUZ says everythuing is fine.
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post #127 of 205
10/6/08 at 10:48pm
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What I really enjoy is the quiet
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post #128 of 205
10/6/08 at 11:01pm
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Temps stay pretty much the same under load

The only thuing I noticed is that the lastest ATI Cataylist indicates GPU Load at 360 % which of course is not right.

GPUZ says everythuing is fine.
I quit using CCC after a week of using it. I hate it. I use Expert tool and AMD gpu clock tool. CCC would never let me keep my overclocks and GPUZ would show it running at 507/500 the whole..Which I knew it was wrong, but still I'd like to see my true clocks....and quiet is nice. My watercooling is nothing quiet though. =/
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post #129 of 205
10/7/08 at 4:36am
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What I really enjoy is the quiet
Like the updated log Dave, thats some great work you did, the setup of the blocks is really interesting to see

Thanks!
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post #130 of 205
10/21/08 at 4:43pm
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Well for the last update I am know considering a Core Extreme CPU.

either the QX9650 or the QX6850 which for the price is less than 1% slower than the Q9650 from what I read.
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post #131 of 205
10/22/08 at 5:54am
It's also 65nm vs the QX9650 at 45nm. The QX6850 run hotter. I love my QX9650. love it.


love it.
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post #132 of 205
10/22/08 at 4:46pm
you sure GQ lol


my q9450 is hohum, 3.6 okay but 1.35volts needed
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post #133 of 205
10/23/08 at 3:17am
Yes, I'm sure.

and it all depends on your chip's batch and overall system and cooling.

I can bench my QX9650 to 5ghz @ 1.47v, but it won't game at all. Running it all day long at 4.42ghz at 1.47.

4ghz at stock volts. Forget what stock is though. lol
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post #134 of 205
11/2/08 at 11:22pm
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I managed to pick up a QX6850 for a good price, so will give it a try when I get it later this week,
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post #135 of 205
11/16/08 at 11:16pm
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well initial benchmark scored 18153 in 3Dmark06
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post #136 of 205
11/17/08 at 4:04am
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well initial benchmark scored 18153 in 3Dmark06
Overclock that darn QX6850. I'm hitting 24.4k with my single X2
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post #137 of 205
11/17/08 at 3:07pm
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yeah I am going to

just been waiting for my second water pump to arrive

Damm Post office lost the package
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post #138 of 205
11/17/08 at 3:08pm
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Of course I am now thinking I7 as well lol
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post #139 of 205
11/17/08 at 4:25pm
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Of course I am now thinking I7 as well lol
lol shoulda done research brah

Core i7 is gonna wtfpwn anything we had before then

but its not cheap, mobo with the 2.9 is upwords of 700+
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post #140 of 205
11/18/08 at 3:17pm
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Well my Intel I7 920 CPU and Asus P6T Mobo are on the truck for delivery

Forgot to order memory lol so just ordred this

OCZ (OCZ3G1600LV6GK) DDR3 PC3-12800 1600 MHz Gold XTC Triple Channel Kits 6GB (3x2048MB) T/C

ASUS P6T X58 Deluxe ATX LGA1366 DDR3 LGA1366 3PCI-E16 PCI-E4 CrossFire SLI SATA2 SAS Mothe *IR-$25* 1 $374.99 CDN
Intel Core I7 920 Quad Core Processor LGA1366 2.66GHZ Bloomfield 8MB LGA1366 4.8GT/S *IR-$24* 1 $385.99 CDN
1 x World in Conflict DVD PC Game OEM ** Intel Promo Bundle Only **
1 x Assassins Creed PC Game OEM **Not for Sale - Intel - Promo Only**
1 x Ubisoft Farcry 2 PC Game OEM DVD **Not for Sale - Intel - Promo Only**
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