Wasmachineman's Water Cooling Adventures

[Wasmachineman_NL]

Great, Caseking had Koolance QD3s in stock. Ordered those, a fan grille for my MoRA3 and a extra fill bottle so I don't cross-contaminate my loops. (different coolants in the bench rig and main rig)

Oh and earlier today I bought a 5700 XT Nitro+ with a waterblock. RDNA1 HARDWARE BUGS WOOOOOOOO

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

Fan grille installed. Rad looks 200% better with a grille tbh.

Should be receiving my 5700 XT tomorrow.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

5700 XT received. Wow, i'm surprised how much faster it is compared to the Vega FE. Really shows how garbage GCN is for gaming tasks.

Also scales like ass with voltage stupid thing scales worse than the R9 Fury X.

 

[CyklonDX]

5700 XT received. Wow, i'm surprised how much faster it is compared to the Vega FE. Really shows how garbage GCN is for gaming tasks.

Also scales like ass with voltage stupid thing scales worse than the R9 Fury X.

5700 has really nice feature for integer upscaling. As i recall it hasn't been brought to any other generation.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

5700 has really nice feature for integer upscaling. As i recall it hasn't been brought to any other generation.

Hah, the only thing I care about is FPS. Thus far, the 5700 XT curbstomps the Vega FE, even with it running at ~1.7 GHz.

Next step: trying to find a sanely priced Radeon VII.

 

[CyklonDX]

my exp with radeon vii - could get it up-to 2.2GHz (without mem oc)
Produced decent fps (close to 2080)

but was far behind in fps in certain games like cyberpunk vs 6800; it had kinda bugged hdr 10bit support - tho produced far better colors, i think radeon vii is best card for viewing movies. When comparing fluidity between 2080 in cyberpunk i couldn't shake off the feeling it was producing more fps than it was reporting.

I recommend looking up fsr3 mod (you can take some of those older cards from both amd and nv to new heights)
(on 7900xtx i was getting 280fps on max details without fsr with built in frame-gen on new horizon game)

I also recommend using custom amd drivers from here

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or direct link (latest)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/radeon-id-distribution/files/Release%20Polaris-Vega-Navi/WHQL-R-ID-Software-Hybrid-24.3.1-Win10-Win11-PolarisVegaNavi-Nebula.exe/download

Those drivers allow you to enable all kind of locked features (not all - but some)
Those drivers also give optimizations to pre-gcn amd/ati cards (terascale)


(drivers used to be called amernime / nimez)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

Well since Aquatuning had a 20% off Alphacool products sale, I bought their 6900 XT Toxic block. Hope it'll perform better than the pretty meh Bykski block I have.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

God damn it. Just as I expected: the block performs even worse, and I found out why: the die of my 6900 XT is extremely uneven.

 

[CyklonDX]

you can try graphite thermal pad (no the thin ones, but thick ones)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

you can try graphite thermal pad (no the thin ones, but thick ones)

PTM7950 on the Bykski block works just fine, I'll just accept the fact my card's ****ed.

In other news, PPCS had two Heatkiller R9 Fury X blocks in stock which I ordered. Bare copper but meh, $80 for both? sure.

 

[CyklonDX]

hmm you could try a washer mod (was quite pop with rad7)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

hmm you could try a washer mod (was quite pop with rad7)

There's already washers on it.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

I have a problem. That problem being: my fetish for AMD HBM cards.

Yes, I bought ANOTHER R9 Fury X :^)

 

[CyklonDX]

You can try V100 also HBM card. (i don't recommend P100 as there's no models with blower - unless you do watercooling)
But P100 has much better packaging than vega/fury cards (quite surprising - my p100 only has 2'C difference between hbm, tjmax and core)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

You can try V100 also HBM card. (i don't recommend P100 as there's no models with blower - unless you do watercooling)
But P100 has much better packaging than vega/fury cards (quite surprising - my p100 only has 2'C difference between hbm, tjmax and core)

Nvidia HBM cards still go for retarded money because of AI workloads unfortunately.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

Holy shit, I finally acquired a Radeon VII, and for a not-retarded price too.

Hardest part will be to find a waterblock that doesn't cost 90% of what I paid for the card lol

 

[CyklonDX]

Hardest part will be to find a waterblock that doesn't cost 90% of what I paid for the card lol

if you fail finding one - i could send you the rusted&stained ek block i have for it.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

if you fail finding one - i could send you the rusted&stained ek block i have for it.

Since when does copper rust?

 

[CyklonDX]

ok ok just stained, oxidized a bit, with gunk in it.
(i'll try to clean it up if you end up needing it)

 

[RolloZ170]

Since when does copper rust?

patina = copperrust ( copper oxyde, copper acetate )