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So I got my Koolance waterblocks yesterday, and put them in last night. I played around with overclocking, and I managed to get from +110 to +130 due to just the cooling alone. I ran a couple benchmarks, played a couple minutes of Skyrim and Batman and SC2 and temps never reached higher than 37C (all when overclocked). I also put in a GTX 570 as a dedicated PhysX card, but for some reason voltage is locked on it.

 

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These cards are some cool suckers.

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Sounds like total overkill.

 

There's no kill like overkill.

 

So Cap, you satisfied with the waterblocks on the 680s? Or do you still prefer the 7970s under water?

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There's no kill like overkill.

 

So Cap, you satisfied with the waterblocks on the 680s? Or do you still prefer the 7970s under water?

I'm a little mixed. I'm more satisfied now, yeah.

 

Now I got to redo my benches. :(

 

Nvidia cards get more of an advantage with AA settings. The graphics also seem a bit crisper, but that could just be due to the different AA settings, or this.

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Actually, I take that back. My overclocks on air was my completely stable overclock. Lower temps don't mean much for overclocking the GTX 680's. However, I find it odd that I can be stable at some games and benchmarks with higher overclocks that aren't stable for others.

 

I got my temps up to 45C after some Metro 2033. :)

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