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Will GTX460's get waterblocks?

3t3P

3t3P

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As per title, will the likes of EK, koolance etc bother to make blocks for this card that strictly speaking doesn't need them?

I am going to be upgrading to watercooling in the coming months and SLI 460's are attractive over my original plan of watercooling a single GTX 470 and clocking it.

I want to try GPU water cooling for the looks, noise and performance, I know it's not necessary strictly speaking.

I realise two 460's and blocks would cost more than a £250 GTX 470 + block but I could get my cards running on air and funds permitting later whack em on the loop with the CPU.

Cheers
 
There will probably be blocks made for them. There are blocks for the 5770 and that's a cool running card. The 460 is quite a cool runner compared to other Nvidia cards though.
 
3t3P said:
As per title, will the likes of EK, koolance etc bother to make blocks for this card that strictly speaking doesn't need them?

I am going to be upgrading to watercooling in the coming months and SLI 460's are attractive over my original plan of watercooling a single GTX 470 and clocking it.

I want to try GPU water cooling for the looks, noise and performance, I know it's not necessary strictly speaking.

I realise two 460's and blocks would cost more than a £250 GTX 470 + block but I could get my cards running on air and funds permitting later whack em on the loop with the CPU.

Cheers
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You know your board (P5Q-E) as in sig. won't run sli, right?
 
Problem with the 460 is that lots of companies have made their own custom PCB's as nVidia hasn't forced them to stick to a standard.
 
bah they're not reference PCB's?

Keltic yeh I realise that:( it's tough cos I firmly believe my quad at 3.7 is fine for any console port! But I really want to try sli (eventually maybe under water)for the first time so will probably move to an economical i5 platform, even knowing a new socket is 'round the corner'

I like my hardware but having £500-900 of GPU's (470 & 480 sli) in a build is a bit scary...

Just hope most games will work in sli so I don't defer down to a single card solution!
 
Info so far, if anyone finds any more info I'll update this post:

Yes/Probably:

EK: Yes
"We started developing new water block for Nvidia 460GTX reference design."

Koolance: Yes
"Koolance is currently working on a full coverage video block for the new NVIDIA GTX 460. Additional updates will be posted here when available."

Watercool: Probably,
Its on their Wishlist on their forum

No/Unlikely:

AquaGrafx: No
"We will not offer a block for this card since the layout madness has already started and we know from the past that only a handful of people with these mid-range cards buy a block that costs around 50% of the cards price."

XSPC: Unlikely??
They don't even have a block for the 465/470, only the 480

Unknown:
DangerDen
Bitspower
 
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Gigabyte and MSI both use reference PCB on their cards with the fancy coolers, anything that has the stock cooler will use the reference PCB. Looks like EVGA are using the reference PCB also on their 'EE' cards.

Will have a look for some more.

EDIT: I'm talking about the 1GB versions only above, as the majority of 768MB cards seem to use the reference design anyway.
 
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Hmm thinking now to save costs (have a look in the motors forum lol) that I will NOT upgrade to i5 but sell my GTX280, and buy a GTX470 for £100-120 more or so and clock it and get my GTX480 performance.

New case and WC loop, done
 
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