HD 5970 X2 Cooling Question
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I have to say that water is the way to go… if you can afford it. i have water on my gaming rig that runs a single gtx580 (nVidia ftw when it comes to gaming - oddly never thought of running the 20x 7970’s on a game :-\ ) with an idle temp of 37c (ambient is 30 atm) and 100% load with furmark peaks at 52c.
The problem is that the setup cost me ~£250 (have the i7 3930k OC’d to 4.2GHz under water too). Now very few ATI cards run reference design so the waterblocks don’t fit and in anycase, at around £100 per card for water on top of the pumps, reservoirs, rads, piping, clamps, water, etc. It just aint sensible for mining rigs. Accellero is more sensible.
If anyone wants to pursuade EK to make some Gigabyte 7970 OC blocks let me know. ;)
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Save yourself some time and money, buy an aquarium, and dump all the hardware in the tank topped off with mineral oil, pump and radiator. Done.
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Asetek produces nice closed loop water cooling solutions. They sell many of them to Corsair, Thermaltake and Arctic Cooling. Accelero Hybrid 7970 is a good thing to have.
