Jackyl
01-27-2005, 02:30 AM
Ok, I've been doing tons and tons of reasearch as I want to water cool my current video card "Evga 6800GT@Ultra speeds" I can push this card a bit past ultra speeds 401/1100 but my idle is 52c "125.6f" and ambient temp is 36c "96.8" Under load temps are as follows Load 77c "170.6f"
Now I'm not new to watercooling but I've always had this theory that I followed. Watercooling is much like air cooling as your dependent on the ambient temparture. Now if you water cooling something sure the water is moving the heat where as air cooling the air is moving the heat. Watercooling is more efficient as it doesn't push the heat to something else in the case it removes the heat from the case while air cooling your dependent on the case fans removing the hot air from the case.
Danger Den has a 6800 waterblock called the NV-68 and here (http://www.themodfathers.jolt.co.uk/?page=&action=show&id=11568) is a review from www.themodfathers.com
Arctic Cooling has a air cooler the NV Silencer 5 for the 6800 series card and here (http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=146&var2=0) is the review for that one.
Now what baffles me is the temps that these two units are doing. I mean for the cost of the nv-68 "129.99" you would think that it would perform better than the air cooling unit for 29.99 from Arctic Cooling! But look at these temps
Arctic Cooling Temps
IDLE
Ambient GPU Delta Difference
Stock Cooler 28c 57c 29c
NV Silencer 5 31c 53c 22c -7c
LOAD
Stock Cooler 28c 78c 50c
NV Silencer 5 34c 66c 32c -18c
http://www.rojakpot.com/review/Arctic_Cooling/NV_Silencer5/load.gif
As you can see, the NV Silencer 5 has quite a huge effect! At idle loads, the NV Silencer 5 was actually 9°C cooler than the stock BFG copper heatpipe cooler! from www.rojakpot.com
The gap widened even further with the GPU at full load. The GPU was actually 18 °C cooler with the NV Silencer 5, than the stock cooler!
Danger Den NV-68 Temps
nVidia Reference 64°C
Danger Den NV-68 47°C
The sheer amount of difference between stock and the NV-68 speaks for itself, cutting 17°C is no small temperature drop. However that is only part of the picture, the difference between idle and load is only 1°C giving you a huge amount of stability. -- from www.themodfathers.com
Now tell me how is it possible that the air cooling unit from Arctic cooling can beat the watercooling solution from danger den? Now is this a fluke or is this truth? What is the ambient between the 2 what are the variables I don't know it's hard to say but from the information that I have shown and found there is no reason not to buy the arctic cooling nv silencer 5 for the performance/cost that you get from this unit vs water cooling..
:hypnotize
Now I'm not new to watercooling but I've always had this theory that I followed. Watercooling is much like air cooling as your dependent on the ambient temparture. Now if you water cooling something sure the water is moving the heat where as air cooling the air is moving the heat. Watercooling is more efficient as it doesn't push the heat to something else in the case it removes the heat from the case while air cooling your dependent on the case fans removing the hot air from the case.
Danger Den has a 6800 waterblock called the NV-68 and here (http://www.themodfathers.jolt.co.uk/?page=&action=show&id=11568) is a review from www.themodfathers.com
Arctic Cooling has a air cooler the NV Silencer 5 for the 6800 series card and here (http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=146&var2=0) is the review for that one.
Now what baffles me is the temps that these two units are doing. I mean for the cost of the nv-68 "129.99" you would think that it would perform better than the air cooling unit for 29.99 from Arctic Cooling! But look at these temps
Arctic Cooling Temps
IDLE
Ambient GPU Delta Difference
Stock Cooler 28c 57c 29c
NV Silencer 5 31c 53c 22c -7c
LOAD
Stock Cooler 28c 78c 50c
NV Silencer 5 34c 66c 32c -18c
http://www.rojakpot.com/review/Arctic_Cooling/NV_Silencer5/load.gif
As you can see, the NV Silencer 5 has quite a huge effect! At idle loads, the NV Silencer 5 was actually 9°C cooler than the stock BFG copper heatpipe cooler! from www.rojakpot.com
The gap widened even further with the GPU at full load. The GPU was actually 18 °C cooler with the NV Silencer 5, than the stock cooler!
Danger Den NV-68 Temps
nVidia Reference 64°C
Danger Den NV-68 47°C
The sheer amount of difference between stock and the NV-68 speaks for itself, cutting 17°C is no small temperature drop. However that is only part of the picture, the difference between idle and load is only 1°C giving you a huge amount of stability. -- from www.themodfathers.com
Now tell me how is it possible that the air cooling unit from Arctic cooling can beat the watercooling solution from danger den? Now is this a fluke or is this truth? What is the ambient between the 2 what are the variables I don't know it's hard to say but from the information that I have shown and found there is no reason not to buy the arctic cooling nv silencer 5 for the performance/cost that you get from this unit vs water cooling..
:hypnotize