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Old 12-18-05   #1 (permalink)
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Hi everyone, been trauling the Internet and now my head hurts Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

For watercooling, I'm just building a setup with a Storm waterblock, Swiftech MCP655 pump, Black Ice Extreme 3 Rad.

Main question is if I get another GFX, is it really worth watercooling them?
In particular, about how much extra speed could I get as opposed to just air cooling and would adding a second GPU block just kill my flow rate and be completely pointless.

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The "low profile" maze4 block will cause a problem putting ramsinks on 2 of the chips. If you have the room between cards...get the regular blocks. My 7800gtx's in sli idle at 43-44 and load at 60 or so on stock cooling.
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The "low profile" maze4 block will cause a problem putting ramsinks on 2 of the chips. If you have the room between cards...get the regular blocks. My 7800gtx's in sli idle at 43-44 and load at 60 or so on stock cooling.
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Worked out a few issues from my first post and edited. Wouldn't mind some opinions on the SLI setup.

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I watercool one graphics card for noise-reduction.
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