** 7970 Waterblock Updates - Pre Order Customers, Please Read **

[zoomee]

cba waiting for a new one - took me a while to fit it whilst the card was still installed in the system lol! - got there in the end - much better, and more cooling for the VRM's on the back of the card:

 

[Mr. May]

Looking sweet mate did you notice a drop on the Vrm temp ?

 

[zoomee]

Looking sweet mate did you notice a drop on the Vrm temp ?

tbh I havn't mate, as I never checked the VRM temps on stock, or with just the waterblock on. Not sure how tbh!?! I thought it was just the core temp we could check....

 

[NeoRed]

Any idea when these are coming in?

 

[Lee Stevens]

Any idea when these are coming in?

+1 I got my back plate looks very nice

 

[hobbsieoz]

Is there any update on the ETA for the water blocks?

 

[Lee Stevens]

Mine got posted today!!!! Yay!!!!

 

[rjk]

got some Tech Labs 7970s built up today.

take a look

OcUK Tech Lab H2O Radeon HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 [MSI R7970-2PMD3GD5] @ £649.94 inc VAT

The OcUK Extreme H2O Radeon HD 7970 combines the fastest single GPU card on the planet with the most effective cooling solution. With features such as cinematic DirectX 11 graphics, AMD's Eyefinity Technology and all solid capacitors. .You can expand your visual real estate across three HD displays in jawdropping 3D and experience immense framerates with blistering graphics.

Featuring the Excellent MSI Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, the OcUK Extreme H2O Radeon HD 7970 allows for incredible overclocking potential on an already outstanding graphics card.

This graphics card has been updated to include the incredible EK HD 7970 Full Cover Waterblock. This block features a new revised design that optimises thermal performance and is claimed to be the greatest block that EK have ever produced..

All of this cooling power would be wasted without the addition of the worlds leading cooling paste, a retail tube of Arctic Cooling MX-4 Thermal Compound (4g) is included with this package. The paste is applied to the GPU to maintain supreme performance with the GPU block.
The remainder of the paste will be sent with the card for future applications.

Note - The waterblock fitted to this card will be EN Nickel Acetal.

Features:-
• EK HD 7970 Nickel Acetal Block, 'The best performing GPU block that EK have ever created'
• EK-FC7970 Backplate - Black, sleek aluminum backplate for striking aesthetics.
• Fastest single GPU graphics card on the planet
• Hugely overclockable
• Vastly cooler running than previous generation
• Quieter running than previous generation
• Compute Power: 3.5 TFLOPS
• Core Clock Speed: 925MHz
• Primitive Rate: 2 prim / clk
• Shader Architecture: GCN
• Stream Processors: 32 CU / 2048 ALU
• Texture Units: 128
• ROPS / Z-Stencil: 32 / 128
• Frame Buffer / Memory: 3GB GDDR5
• Memory Width / Speed: 384 bit / 5500MHz
• Load / Idle Board Power: <300W / <3W
• Power Connectors: 8-pin + 6-pin
• Display Outputs: 1xDVI + 2x mDP + 1x HDMI
• 3yr Warranty

Only £649.94 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

 

[wolvers]

Do you fit them before they are sold, so they sit on the shelves with blocks on? Shame if you do, I was after one and because you have no stock I had to order from elsewhere that did. I guess you are making a lot more money out of them fitted.

Quick question about the back plate, I decided not to get one but if I was to get one later can it be fitted with the block on or would I have to take the block off to fit the back plate? Cheers.

 

[rjk]

nope, we build the tech labs cards to order

the build cost literally covers the technicians time to build and test the card.

backplate can be retrofitted easily.

I did it with my 590 with no problem at all

 

[wolvers]

OK cheers. Just trying to find out how much of an effect the backplate has on VRM temps. Have you done any testing yourself or know of anyone that has?

 

[Cupra]

I honestly think you should change the pic on the website of these rich, the red pcb model looks turd and i wouldnt order one purely because of that as id look for a card that i knew for a fact had a black pcb

 

[subbytna]

I honestly think you should change the pic on the website of these rich, the red pcb model looks turd and i wouldnt order one purely because of that as id look for a card that i knew for a fact had a black pcb

Have to agree there. You get the first look at the "dark look PBC" and cooler...then the pic becomes the red and...dare I say it a bit naff looking....red and dark looking PCB.

 

[Lee Stevens]

I fitted my block and back plate lastnight I'll post some pics when I get in, would also like so advice on my tubeing routing.

 

[Lee Stevens]

 

[the1gooner]

^^^ holy cow that setup looks sweet

 

[Lee Stevens]

^^^ holy cow that setup looks sweet

Thank you it's taken enough time lol, i'm not happy with the tubing though.

This is what it looked like before:

 

[Mr. May]

Loving your res

RJK when will you be getting some more blocks and back plates iam itching for crossfire under water

 

[wolvers]

There is no need to go from the pump straight into the rad, which is what it looks like you're trying to do in both those loops. It doesn't really make any difference in what order you do the loop. I would go res>pump>gpu>rad>cpu>res. That'll make it look neat and reduce the total length of your tubing, which is good for flow.

Also, it looks like you have your fans on the rad blowing air out of the case through the rad. Is that right? If so you'll get better temps if you use cooler ambient air from outside of the case and blow/draw that through your rad.

That's a really nice looking build there bud, you've obviously gone to some trouble to make it really neat and I like the black and white theme.

 

[hobbsieoz]

It seems that there are no stocks of the FC7970's anywhere online. I guess its going to be a long wait. Manufacturing seems to be taking a while.