New D-Tek GFX Uni-Sink for 8800gtx

chaparral · 24 May 2007 at 10:00

Specifications:

Model name: D-Tek GFX UNI-Sink
Compatibility: Nvidia™ GeForce 8800GTX
Material: Aluminum

Description:

The UNI-Sink is a one piece, easy to install solution designed to cool the nvidia™ GeForce 8800 GTX memory and voltage mosfets in one easy bolt-on package. It is designed to optimize as much surface area as possible and to eliminate individual heatsink applications to each memory chip. Easier to install and less expensive than alternatives, the UNI-sink is a great product for adequate 8800 GTX cooling (especially when paired with the D-Tek Fuzion GFX GPU cooler).

The UNI-Sink works in tandem with the FuZion GFX block for an outstanding combination of cooling performance without the expense and lack of upgradeability of full cover card specific waterblocks. The UNI-Sink is also compatible with existing non-full-cover waterblocks as well.

Features:

• High amount of surface area for excellent thermal control
• One-piece design or easy installation
• Full coverage for Memory, Voltage Mosfets and I/O chip
• Lightweight Construction
• Designed to work in tandem with the FuZion GFX Waterblock
• Uses existing OEM mounting hardwa

Fireskull · 24 May 2007 at 10:32

Lol looks funky, a monster cooler for a monster card

misterPK · 24 May 2007 at 10:47

It reminds me of the heatsink on my old Pentium 2 cartridge, which now makes a great, if geeky, paperweight! :cool:

Ahh, 350Mhz of ultimate power...

PK!

WJA96 · 24 May 2007 at 14:49

Well, I think you have to admire the attempt, but compared to an Acetal-topped EK 8800 series block that looks very crude indeed.

The Halk · 24 May 2007 at 15:27

I'll stick with this -

chaparral · 24 May 2007 at 16:23

WJA96 said:
Well, I think you have to admire the attempt, but compared to an Acetal-topped EK 8800 series block that looks very crude indeed.

I already ordered my EK 8800gtx fullcover waterblock last sunday

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WJA96 · 24 May 2007 at 17:04

chaparral said:
I already ordered my EK 8800gtx fullcover waterblock last sunday ....

What - like this?

Except for a GTX - obviously

Quality.

w3bbo · 24 May 2007 at 17:13

Prefer my acrylic EK GTX block

WJA96 · 24 May 2007 at 17:22

w3bbo said:
Prefer my acrylic EK GTX block

It looks lovely - that is true, but I've twice cracked acrylic covers on EK blocks because the screw-holes don't have enough 'meat' around about them. I swear I'm not monkey-wrenching them (honest!).

The acetal is virtually unbreakable and it looks pretty flash too.

Jaffa_Cake · 24 May 2007 at 17:45

Not for the GTS then. How many is there for the GTX? and still none for the GTS.

Mekrel · 24 May 2007 at 17:53

Swiftech Stealth > EK Full cover > D-Tek Uni-Sink

WJA96 · 24 May 2007 at 17:58

Mekrel said:
Swiftech Stealth > EK Full cover > D-Tek Uni-Sink

Is the stealth actually available?

chaparral · 24 May 2007 at 18:36

WJA96 said:
What - like this? Except for a GTX - obviously

Quality.

Yes,,,,,When the postman gets around to delivering it

(it meant to been posted by RMSD (nextday),,But the seller went and posted it by city link :mad:

..which can take weeks if they don't loose it)
am in channel islands and we don't have city link over here..so it can take ages when something does get posted by city link..

pastymuncher · 24 May 2007 at 19:35

Jaffa_Cake said:
Not for the GTS then. How many is there for the GTX? and still none for the GTS.

Do you mean the D-Tek bodge job thingy or an EK full cover block? I have a EK full cover GTS block on mine and it is excellent. I can't see the D-Tek bodge job being that good. We need to see some reviews first.

Mekrel · 24 May 2007 at 19:59

WJA96 said:
Is the stealth actually available?

Should be next week

WJA96 · 24 May 2007 at 20:02

So how do we know the Stealth is better than the EK? Is there a review somewhere?

Mekrel · 24 May 2007 at 20:29

because it's direct GPU cooling - so the cooling is where it matters.

EK blocks have never been high performance, the internals of his blocks have not got enough surface area - although he has set up a new CNC machine.

Stealth also had GTX base, so will be better than MCW60 which in turn turns up better than EK full cover.

Yet my list above was in terms of looks, I'm sure the DTEK block will out perform the EK block too.

WJA96 · 24 May 2007 at 22:25

Mekrel said:
because it's direct GPU cooling - so the cooling is where it matters.

EK blocks have never been high performance, the internals of his blocks have not got enough surface area - although he has set up a new CNC machine.

Stealth also had GTX base, so will be better than MCW60 which in turn turns up better than EK full cover.

Yet my list above was in terms of looks, I'm sure the DTEK block will out perform the EK block too.

That's a very interesting point. Tomorrow (it's too late now) I'm going to try and work out the surface area and heat transfer capacity of the D-Tek and EK blocks as one of the reasons I think the EK blocks are very good is they have relatively large water volumes. The D-Tek block will require a decent flow of air over the finned cooler and I think a decent air flow is hard to find in that area of many cases.

It's completely arbitrary of course as I have the EK Blocks now and swapping them would be too expensive to be sensible (£25 for a CPU block is disposable - £140 for a pair of GPU blocks would be an excessive extravagance), so I'll keep them.

Mekrel · 24 May 2007 at 22:34

I'm interested in memory performance, seeing how much more you can get from water if that is the case.

How ever, I think good airflow over sinks will squeeze the most out of memory.

The Halk · 24 May 2007 at 22:53

When I briefly looked at overclocking the memory, I found there wasn't much headroom. My watercooling is about to be reshuffled, so that it can handle a huge build up of heat, which is what I get when I run ATi Tool for a few hours. If that happens I might see a bit more from the memory. I'm using the AquaComputer block above, and it does have a small flow of water over the memory - not a huge amount, just passes above those sections of the block, most of the restriction is in the GPU section. But when I've been running for a few hours producing as much heat as possible, the only warm part on the block is directly above the GPU.