So I gave in and stopped trying to make the Alphacool block work. I'm convinced it is poorly designed as far as cooling the memory is concerned
Here is the card
the block is above it.
Here is the card with the block on it
It simply doesn't distribute the water over where the RAM is contacting the underside of the block.
I've bought a shim, changed the pads, if I run Folding@Home which is a very high gpu load, the temps get into the 70s and mining the RAM gets to high 70s after letting it run for a while.
So I did this:
This is an EKWB Quantum Vector2 (from OCUK of course) and fitted using the thermal pads supplied by EK.
Mining the RAM stayed in the low 60s, and Folding the GPU is staying in the 50s. The block also looks much better, has a very cool clamshell design and the only thing I don't like is the PCIE power cables are hard to fit.
BTW, not happy with that run from the gpu to the cpu but it's good enough for now.
Here is the card
the block is above it.
Here is the card with the block on it
It simply doesn't distribute the water over where the RAM is contacting the underside of the block.
I've bought a shim, changed the pads, if I run Folding@Home which is a very high gpu load, the temps get into the 70s and mining the RAM gets to high 70s after letting it run for a while.
So I did this:
This is an EKWB Quantum Vector2 (from OCUK of course) and fitted using the thermal pads supplied by EK.
Mining the RAM stayed in the low 60s, and Folding the GPU is staying in the 50s. The block also looks much better, has a very cool clamshell design and the only thing I don't like is the PCIE power cables are hard to fit.
BTW, not happy with that run from the gpu to the cpu but it's good enough for now.
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