More pointless watercooler

[Mick Naughty]

So on a scale of 1 to triggered how bad are people gonna react to a watercooled backplate? I imagine it gonna be pretty bad as most hate cooling ram. 

[Mr.Meerkat]

Not very? Watercooling a backplate could help to cool VRMs if there are VRMs at the back of the PCB  

[Lurick]

You triggered me in my safe space. /s

 

Maybe not completely practical but not entirely useless either

[Mick Naughty]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Not very? Watercooling a backplate could help to cool VRMs if there are VRMs at the back of the PCB  

Well my 1080 barely gets out of the 30's. Highest ive recorded with the titans are in the low 50's. That's with the cover off the case so best case scenario.

[Mr.Meerkat]

5 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Well my 1080 barely gets out of the 30's. Highest ive recorded with the titans are in the low 50's. That's with the cover off the case so best case scenario.

I remember my non-cooled VRMs on my 290X at 1200MHz (h75 cooled one), 100C, immediately tore it apart, used the Arctic cooled one till Gelid's 290X VRM heatsinks came  

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

I remember my non-cooled VRMs on my 290X at 1200MHz (h75 cooled one), 100C, immediately tore it apart, used the Arctic cooled one till Gelid's 290X VRM heatsinks came  

100 degrees is actually fine. They start throttling at 90 degrees, but can continue outputting to around 125 degrees before the power output gets too low.

[Mick Naughty]

Yea I was gonna throw another titan in the other rig and see how it does on air with no back plate.

2 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

I remember my non-cooled VRMs on my 290X at 1200MHz (h75 cooled one), 100C, immediately tore it apart, used the Arctic cooled one till Gelid's 290X VRM heatsinks came  

 

[SmashinMachine]

38 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

So on a scale of 1 to triggered how bad are people gonna react to a watercooled backplate? I imagine it gonna be pretty bad as most hate cooling ram. 

I think watercooling a backplate is a very good idea. It makes the GPU stable @ high OC.

There are some watercooling backplates from aquacomputer too

 

[Mick Naughty]

1 minute ago, SmashinMachine said:

I think watercooling a backplate is a very good idea. It makes the GPU stable @ high OC.

There are some watercooling backplates from aquacomputer too

 

Yea, I seen those last week but I didn't wonna swap everything over and spend even more money assuming I could even get them.

[Mr.Meerkat]

4 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

100 degrees is actually fine. They start throttling at 90 degrees, but can continue outputting to around 125 degrees before the power output gets too low.

Well...I know but considering that 2 years of 1200MHz killed both VRMs on my 2 290Xs so...I wonder how long they would have lasted without those heatsinks...

[TheRandomness]

3 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Well...I know but considering that 2 years of 1200MHz killed both VRMs on my 2 290Xs so...I wonder how long they would have lasted without those heatsinks...

Half a year of 1.45V hasn't killed my 290  Plus, the 290(X)'s VRM is so horrifically overbuilt, it's really fine for the purpose.

[SmashinMachine]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

Yea, I seen those last week but I didn't wonna swap everything over and spend even more money assuming I could even get them.

Maybe you can solder smt like that on the backplate instead of the screws  and connect it with a copper stick in to the FC Terminal like these....

Just an Idea....

 

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Half a year of 1.45V hasn't killed my 290  Plus, the 290(X)'s VRM is so horrifically overbuilt, it's really fine for the purpose.

Hmmmm...maybe I fried the silicons then...what ever it is, when ever I load one of them over 70% at stock clocks, it either blackscreens, artifacts, bluescreens, turn off ect. 

[Mick Naughty]

5 minutes ago, SmashinMachine said:

Maybe you can solder smt like that on the backplate instead of the screws  and connect it with a copper stick in to the FC Terminal like these....

Just an Idea....

 

That's a lot of surface prep compared to what I'm gonna do and I already have the parts to do it this way.

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Hmmmm...maybe I fried the silicons then...what ever it is, when ever I load one of them over 70% at stock clocks, it either blackscreens, artifacts, bluescreens, turn off ect. 

More voltage needed >:D 

[SmashinMachine]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

That's a lot of service prep compared to what I'm gonna do and I already have the parts to do it this way.

Will you use VGA Supremacy on the Backplate? (see on the photo)

Good Idea...

Do you want to polish the paint on the backplate for a better conductivity?

[SCHISCHKA]

I'm triggered on water cooling in general. how many components are you gona water cool before you start building a cray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2#Packed_circuit_boards_and_new_design_ideas

[Mick Naughty]

2 minutes ago, SmashinMachine said:

Will you use VGA Supremacy on the Backplate? (see on the photo)

Good Idea...

Do you want to polish the paint on the backplate for a better conductivity?

Gonna buff it down to about 400 grit but I don't have any white and black rouge to polish it real nice but It should be as good as a cpu heat spreader.

[Mick Naughty]

3 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

I'm triggered on water cooling in general. how many components are you gona water cool before you start building a cray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2#Packed_circuit_boards_and_new_design_ideas

Uwat m8? 

[SmashinMachine]

5 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Gonna buff it down to about 400 grit but I don't have any white and black rouge to polish it real nice but It should be as good as a cpu heat spreader.

Buff it with 400 Grit dry and then under water.

If it is wet, it becomes very good surface

[Mick Naughty]

1 minute ago, SmashinMachine said:

Buff it with 400 Grit dry and then under water.

If it is wet, it becomes very good surface

I have sand paper up to 2000 but I prefer to use some abrasive buffs on a dremel. Worked quite well when I ported the heads on one of my cars. Gonna see how it looks under the paint of this backplate and go from there I guess.

[SmashinMachine]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

I have sand paper up to 2000 but I prefer to use some abrasive buffs on a dremel. Worked quite well when I ported the heads on one of my cars. Gonna see how it looks under the paint of this backplate and go from there I guess.

You have to polish a little surface area. I am convinced that you will succeed.

Knock on wood! 

 

[Mick Naughty]

All of my tools were way to aggressive for this delicate operation. Had to grind down the mounts and ended up breakin on. May go to micro center and get a thermospere kit and use the hardware from that. 

[Mick Naughty]

Well the my aren't the most drastic improvements. Ran heaven as I don't feel like gaming yet but it runs hotter in bf1 but I have a base line for both. Only ran it for about 15-20 before checking. 

 

First few pics are of the test setup then the bottom card compared to the top card with the active cooling. 

[Mick Naughty]

Let it run for another 10-15 so a new high for the bottom card and new low for the top card. The bottom alway ran about 5c hotter on the back plate but about 3-5c lower on the gpu. So take that for what it's worth.