Watercooling an eVGA 7800 GTX KO Edition

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I'm looking into getting the mentioned 7800GTX and I plan on watercooling and I was wondering what would be best for the KO edition since it has the beefed up stock heatsink. I'll be using an EXOS-2 system with 3/8" tubing throughout and wasnt sure if just passive cooling the RAM with a Maze4 on it would be enuff. Any opinions on this?

 

[Punx_Clever]

yes, passive on the ram will be just fine (I assume by passive you mean ramsinks?)

you coudl go with a cooler that hits the memory too, but most of the tests I've seen havn't shown much performance increase (if any) and a much larger price tag.

 

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Ok cool, yeah I meant ramsinks. After I posted this I looked at more GTXs and found another one clocked at the same speeds as the KO edition with a regular heatsink so that helped me out. Thanks.

 

[Asian Dub Foundation]

why buy a KO when ur watercooling? save a few bucks and get a regular GTX

 

[qbackin]

why buy a KO when ur watercooling? save a few bucks and get a regular GTX

Because he is [H]

 

[Punx_Clever]

Ok cool, yeah I meant ramsinks. After I posted this I looked at more GTXs and found another one clocked at the same speeds as the KO edition with a regular heatsink so that helped me out. Thanks.

why buy a KO when ur watercooling? save a few bucks and get a regular GTX

perhaps for the stock overclock?

 

[el rolio]

there are quirtre a few other cards out there, for htat matter i think evga has a car d clocked exactly the same htat is not the KO edition costin a ton more money.

so yea no offense bu if you plan to buy the card and watercoolin at the same time, its only smart to buy any other version besides the KO version.

as for the ram. you can get ramsinks with most gpu blocks as an accessory, or you could just leave the stock sinks on the ram that come with the card.

 

[Asian Dub Foundation]

Because he is [H]

if being hard is wasting money then ok...

 

[Nettwerk]

[H]ardwallet

 

[cooter]

My questions is, is it really necessary to have any sort of heatsink or cooling on the RAM? i am thinking about putting a block on my 7800 GTX but I would not be putting RAM sinks on it.

 

[Leeum]

Get a Danger Den NV-78...you'll be glad you did

 

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I've heard that the NV-68 / NV-78's arent really worth it with the price tag, especially from the 6800 series. Can anyone prove otherwise?

 

[DBZ33]

I also have the EXOS-2. I am cooling a dual Opteron 252 system and a EVGA 7800GTX @ 525/1400. The water block I got was the Koolance VID-NV2-L06, it fits great and comes with heatinks for the back side ram chips. Even on full load the 7800GTX never goes over 47c. I would also get the regular 7800GTX and overclock it. Good Luck.


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