cooling for a 7950

2006-08-29 13:15:06

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swedge: Member; +23|6761|haggis hill

hey guys im building myself a new pc and i was interested in water cooling, i will be getting the 7950 1gb and what i want to know is how would the watter cooling fixtures affect my card as it is like 2gpu's in 1. wouldnt it need to seperate mountings ???? would i need a special cooling kit

p.s. anyone know any good places for water cooling sytems for a am2 amd 4600 2.4ghz dual core

Last edited by swedge (2006-08-29 13:19:27)

2006-08-29 13:19:48

#2

Marlboroman82: Personal philosophy: Clothing optional.; +1,022|6925|Camp XRay

probably gonna need special kit. the other thing to consider is how close the cards sit together and how you will be able to the fixtures for water blocks in there. i will edit this if i find some more info for you.

Last edited by Marlboroman82 (2006-08-29 13:20:01)

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2006-08-29 13:20:39

#3

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|7038|Salt Lake City

You will need a special waterblock for that 7950. Danger Den has one.

http://www.dangerden.com/images/blocks/ … _view2.jpg

2006-08-29 13:23:03

#4

swedge: Member; +23|6761|haggis hill

its just the one card realy, its hard to explain have a look at this and you will know what i mean 7950

2006-08-29 13:41:56

#5

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|7038|Salt Lake City

That page comes up blank for me, but what I can tell you is this. The 7950 only uses a single PCI-e slot, but is actually two full PCBs connected together. Look at the Danger Den link I sent you. That is a 7950, and all 7950 cards look like that. If the picture of the card on the site you are ordering from is different, then they have the wrong picture showing for the card.

To show you what I mean, here is a picture of the eVGA card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage … %2D+Retail

...and the MSI.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage … %2D+Retail

...and the Gigabyte.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage … %2D+Retail

...and the Asus.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage … %2D+Retail

Last edited by Agent_Dung_Bomb (2006-08-29 13:46:32)

2006-08-29 13:48:42

#6

swedge: Member; +23|6761|haggis hill

yes thats what it is, thats what i was trying to say, for liquid cooling my cpu (AM2 amd4600) does it need to be specififly for a dual core or just an AM2

2006-08-29 14:03:50

#7

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|7038|Salt Lake City

Oh, sorry. I thought you meant you wanted to water cool your video card. For the CPU you need only make sure the waterblock has AM2 mounting support.

Something like this would work. In fact, I have this water block. The only difference is my top is drilled for S754/939 mounting. Very nice water block.

http://www.dangerdenstore.com/product.p … amp;page=1

Last edited by Agent_Dung_Bomb (2006-08-29 14:05:18)

2006-08-29 14:09:20

#8

swedge: Member; +23|6761|haggis hill

cheers for the info on the cpu, i was also asking about the graphics card aswell. wouldnt it b a bitch if i wanted the gfx card in sli and liquid cooled lol

2006-08-29 14:13:48

#9

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|7038|Salt Lake City

swedge wrote:
cheers for the info on the cpu, i was also asking about the graphics card aswell. wouldnt it b a bitch if i wanted the gfx card in sli and liquid cooled lol

You'd probably need a separate case just to house all the water cooling stuff.

2006-08-29 15:46:58

#10

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,060|7074|PNW

swedge wrote:
hey guys im building myself a new pc and i was interested in water cooling, i will be getting the 7950 1gb and what i want to know is how would the watter cooling fixtures affect my card as it is like 2gpu's in 1. wouldnt it need to seperate mountings ???? would i need a special cooling kit

p.s. anyone know any good places for water cooling sytems for a am2 amd 4600 2.4ghz dual core

Drop the 7950 and just get yourself a 7900GT, unless you don't really care about burning cash (though I should be talking; I bought a 6800 Ultra in Nov'04). But this close to G80's...?

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