TwoCables

Not only that, but if you do this, then you get to choose which waterblock you use.

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meticadpa

You shouldn't feel like an idiot.

If no one asked questions, no one would ever learn anything.

And yes, the Hydro Copper is a stock water block for the GTX 295 card from EVGA. The only advantage to this is that you can't accidentally ruin your card when you install the waterblock and you'll still have the full warranty. (Even though eVGA have a modder friendly warranty).

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dudenell

IMO you dont need a waterblock on the co-op. Even at my speeds if you have the fan cranked up it doesnt go past 70 Degrees Celsius

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Clockadile Dundee

Yes, you don't need a block on the Co-Op, but you will get better OCs, with temps which are totally unattainable on air. So, where reliability is important, it would be good, like for a workstation or folding rig.

Yes, it is cheaper, to buy a Co-Op and block separately, but I liked the idea of Evga covering the whole package. Also, you have the weight of a rather large company behind the design of your block, not that I'm sure that makes a difference.

It is not, and was not, a price/performance contender.

What it is, is a very well evolved single slot solution.

Will try to come up with more rationalizations later.

dudenell

your not going to get much higher though with a waterblock unless its volt modded..

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A GTX 275 w/ a GTS250 GPU for PhysX, but you can fold w/ both GPU's if you like.

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Clockadile Dundee

Full CLP320 re-cap and GPUvmeasure etc. is $70, then flash the BIOS. You will see that heating up the shaders makes it counter-productive, limiting the gains that would be had on any number of other cards.

Besides, I got 743 core with linked shaders, 1200 on the memory, and with no artifacting, never goes above 34c, and that was just on the first try, I haven't actually found any limit yet. And that provides plenty of computing power for me, and when it doesn't, I'm haven't got a problem with a voltmod for 24/7 daily use.

I have been having issues, so I haven't gotten to finalize the OC yet. I think you really need sub-ambient cooling, or at least a chiller, to really make an actual hardmod for voltage, which is impossible anyway, as far as I know. They haven't even realeased the ICs from NDA, so you must mean a BIOS re-flash, which is harmless.

(Defensive much?) :P