Cooling Alpha Cooling to offer Nvidia 8950GX2 water block?

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  1. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    IanW, 20 Mar 2007
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  2. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    Wow, what a block. I didn't even know we were going to be getting a GX2 version anytime soon...
     
    Krikkit, 20 Mar 2007
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  3. Ramble

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    Boy that thing is going to be heavy.
    I wonder if they have any kind of elaborate retention bracket.
     
    Ramble, 20 Mar 2007
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  4. Guest-23315

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    On XS, we decided that they are only very thin blocks so that you could technically stick four cards together and have quad G80 SLi.

    The problem is that the block is only 4mm thick, so the cooling isn't going to be very good.
     
    Guest-23315, 23 Mar 2007
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  5. axscpu

    axscpu What's a Dremel?

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    sorry to point this out.... but I don,t get the idea of two io chip, if the card is a gx2 then there is no need for two NVio chips on the card...
    that why I think that this is not a gx2 card but a cooling sli set-up...
    my two cents
     
    axscpu, 25 Mar 2007
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  6. aquatuning

    aquatuning What's a Dremel?

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    I think the same tbh for example how long was the 7950GX2 around for..... not very :duh:
     
    aquatuning, 26 Mar 2007
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  7. Techno-Dann

    Techno-Dann Disgruntled kumquat

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    Wouldn't the 8x bandwidth per 8800 kill the performance?

    I do suspect it's for quad-SLI, though. You just need a motherboard with four PCI-express slots, in groups of two. Then you put two complete 8800s in the waterblock, use a super-short SLI bridge to connect the two, and a longer one to connect the two pairs together. Thus, quad-SLI in a somewhat-reasonable form factor without needing a totally new PCB design like the 7950 GX2.
     
    Techno-Dann, 26 Mar 2007
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  8. Guest-23315

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    But that block isn't for a 8850 !!! Its an ultra thing 8800 GTX/GTS block so that you can technically fit 4x 8800 GPU's next to each other....

    It even says so on the alphacool webpage.
     
    Guest-23315, 26 Mar 2007
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  9. Nexxo

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    No, but I have. :D (OK, not for this particular waterblock, but I could design one easily).

    See the dimensions/specs of my original bracket in Jazzle's most excellent SketchUp collection.
     
    Nexxo, 27 Mar 2007
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  10. Burnout21

    Burnout21 Is the daddy!

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    me thinks the 8950 GX2 will be a pair of 8800GT's as they have a low thermal output.

    Mankz look at the spacing of the two blocks and how they are joined, no way on earth could you get them to span the gap on even a board with PCI-e slot next to each other.
     
    Burnout21, 15 Oct 2007
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  11. Guest-23315

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    You could with a male-male thread...
     
    Guest-23315, 15 Oct 2007
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