Wasmachineman's Water Cooling Adventures

[CyklonDX]

I've been busy buying crap, there's a R9 Nano on the bench rig now lol, I gotta find me waterblock for it someday.

you can potentially mount corsair h80 or h60 with zip ties - but its not nice looking - and pretty much same as fury-x.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

you can potentially mount corsair h80 or h60 with zip ties - but its not nice looking - and pretty much same as fury-x.

Or I could buy this: Alphacool NexXxoS GPX ATI R9 Nano M01 mit Backplate

 

[CyklonDX]

its really not worth it. This card is just meh
blue sapphire 290x 8G or 390x would be much better. *(i haven't investigated it - but there's a chance it can be upgraded to 16 or even 32G vram - and it can overclock if you can cool it - might even overshoot 980ti - and come close to 1080ti.)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

I got so bored watching BZ's 9800X3D stream I decided to delid my GTX 580.

And with success. Card benches 1040/2500 8)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

In other news, I bought a 'brother' for the free HD6850 I found on the street half a year ago, it should be arriving with the rest of my crap from the USA next week.

 

[CyklonDX]

i still have ref. 6950 flashed to 6970 somewhere around the house (framed)
Crap generation if you ask me - 7970 was lit, especialy asus directcu ii or upper end matrix. ~> those could oc, and keep it cool - the design was mind blowing.



(it was when asus was great computer company -> before asus went to crapper with 290x series, and any future cards they made since)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

Finally sold that goddamn 2080 Ti KPE. Yay money.

That I will likely spend on a 3090 Ti Suprim X, A770 LE or B580 sooner than later though.

 

[CyklonDX]

try the intel cards - not sure on success - buuut it will be interesting

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

try the intel cards - not sure on success - buuut it will be interesting

If I can find a A770 for a not-stupid price that is. €260 is still a bit too much for my taste.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

A thing I noticed with most old GPUs is that they're incredibly memory bottlenecked. That 580? It faceplants in anything newer than Superposition because of it's 1.5GB VRAM.

 

[CyklonDX]

You can try to reach out to some guys that fix gpu's - the old gpu's are fairly open -> you can upgrade their vram with ease (double-quad it)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

You can try to reach out to some guys that fix gpu's - the old gpu's are fairly open -> you can upgrade their vram with ease (double-quad it)

I can't do BGA rework and paying someone to upgrade a 580 is a fool's errand.

 

[CyklonDX]

We have a guy here in us - that does things as such and more for quite cheap (but again those cards won't benefit a lot in terms of performance - but might allow you to play some games/run some benchmarks that require more than its available buffer).
Though some cards can clearly benefit from larger buffer - as they were held back by it.
Quite sure you could learn how to reball, solder memory - its not as hard as people make it out to be.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

We have a guy here in us - that does things as such and more for quite cheap (but again those cards won't benefit a lot in terms of performance - but might allow you to play some games/run some benchmarks that require more than its available buffer).
Though some cards can clearly benefit from larger buffer - as they were held back by it.
Quite sure you could learn how to reball, solder memory - its not as hard as people make it out to be.

If I could be arsed to, sure! These days I'm not too interested in chasing WRs and just benching for fun.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

Received my crap from the USA again. Still need to test the 6850 I cleaned and repasted. The Klevv 4x8GB DDR3-2666 kit works (at 2400 because lol shit IMC on this 8150)

And I also got a absolute ****ton of female QD3s. (9 of them)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

6850 tested and working, need to be in the mood to setup a bench OS for it though (and I also gotta find a damn CrossFire bridge)

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

I also bought a very, VERY old EKWB Supreme waterblock, with, wait for it...

Socket 478 support.

 

[CyklonDX]

Hot netburst here you go

There used to be adapters to go from 478 to LGA 775
(here's one i had for gallatin i think from LGA to PGA - tho mounting heatsink on them would be more of a trouble)

http://imgur.com/NkwsFWG

http://imgur.com/2jKZ4wT

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

I wish CrossFire bridges were easier to get locally. no I can't be arsed to wait a month I want them NOW so I can bench those 6850s!

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

in other news, scored a 8320 and 8350 for €60