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Swiftech and Danger Den Water Cooling for Geforce 8800 Series

Cooling/Water Cooling by geoffrey @ 2007-06-06

In this article we take an in-depth look at the advanced cooling options available for the Geforce 8800 series. Both Danger Den and Swiftech have water blocks designed to fit the latest NVIDIA high end cards, so we take them for a test ride, comparing performance at different pump speeds, SLI compatibility and see how they do compared to high end air cooling solutions. Read on to find out if water cooling a G80 based VGA card is worth it.

Swiftech MCW-60 + MC8800 SMC cooling kit

Inside the package

For the 8800 series, Swiftech relies on their MCW-60 water block which was released last year. They include a new G80 mounting kit and combined with the MC8800 SMC cooling kit a total of two packages are shipped to get a full cooling replacement for your G80 card:

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Inside the fancy MCW-60 retail package we find:

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Swiftech MCW-60

G80 adapter kit

Geforce 7 series and older mounting kit

ATI Radeon mounting kit

1/2", 3/8" and 1/4" fittings + rubber o-ring

INBUS screwdriver

White thermal grease

Manual

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Inside the MC8800 SMC cooling kit box:

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Comment from Kougar @ 2007/06/06

Great review! Very interesting to see Swiftech's block take the win there, I am surprised. Did overclocking improve beyond 600Mhz with either block though??

Comment from geoffrey @ 2007/06/07

Overclocking does indeed improve, DanderDen's block will give you about the same overclocking headroom as Thermalright's HR-03 Plus, as they are temps wise very close to eachother. http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=get...&articID=5 57

Swiftech's block will go even further, though due to the unusual clocking of the G80 it still might be hard to get it stable at the next available gpu clock (675MHz).

Comment from jmke @ 2007/06/07

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Originally Posted by geoffrey

they are close together at STOCK G80 speeds; but once you start overclocking, HR-03 PLus will heat up more & faster. Watercooling will take the lead quickly and with larger margins, also, it will allow you to use a higher VGPU/VMEM as it's better cooled, and can remove more watts

stock HR: 45°C
stock DD: 45°C

OC HR: 47°C
OC DD: 45°C

Comment from Cranox @ 2007/06/07

Nice review geoffrey , never tought that the mcw-60 is that good

Comment from jmke @ 2007/06/10

Quote:

The G80 adapter kit is used to replace the standard MCW60 hold-down plate and allows installation with GeForce™ 8 series Video Cards, as well as ATI® latest 2900XT video cards

http://www.swiftech.com/products/mcw60-R.asp

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