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Originally Posted by kungfoojesus
Why couldn't he have fried the memory?
"There is no cooling that passive cooling can't offer that water cooling can." Anybody will tell you otherwise hopefully.
A difference of 5-10mhz... Where did you come up with those numbers?
Not worth the pressure drop or the $125? Doesn't that depend on the head rating of the pump and several other factors as well? I do agree $125 probably isn't worth it, but that's not what I'm asking or what we're judging at the moment.
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Lemme back up. The "jungle?" No offense but where did those forums come from??? Ive been on a good amount of forums and Ive never heard of it. Maybe I just missed it all these years :roleseyes: Unless some senior member of a well known forum (like any of the regular guys here) says otherwise, I'd take anything I read from a forum like that with a grain of salt.
As for not needing to watercool the ram I agree with Torin. I dont have a 6800gt but over at ocforums the question is brought up way too many times. The core gets MUCH hotter than the ram. If you get a good block on the core and passively cool the bga chips you can still lower the temps on those bga chips. A good chunk of heat is disappaited from the GPU through the circuit board and traces. If you cool the GPU you basically cool the entire card. Ive only seen like one guy not put any cooling on the bga chips though, so I definitely wouldnt recommend it.
A maze 4 or better yet, a silverprop will cool the GPU better than that huge DD thing. And no matter what pump you have more flow = better peformance on anything in the loop.
So why pay 125$ (well the silverprop isnt too far from it =\ ) to get ok cooling on the core and just a little better performance on the ram, not to mention degrade the performance on your entire loop? GPU OCs are much more benificial so I dont really see how its a choice...
And Ive never heard of anyone frying their ram because it wasnt cooled properly. Even if the heatsinks werent seated properly the card would just over heat and crash, or just clock down and shutoff. A guy just posted on how his 6800gt gainward GS keep crashing because of that, the whole heatsink was tilted and touching the corner of the GPU. It didnt puff a cloud of smoke and die... It just artifacted and wasnt stable.
Either your friends card was just bad or he did something dumb.