You guys are doing a GTX480 version, right? :-P

You guys are doing a GTX480 version, right? :-P

That'd be awesome.

I'm tempted to buy an FX card just to use this ;) - but seriously, it still looks haps better than most water blocks for GPU's even today.

I do like the design of that. However correct me if I'm wrong but FX? is that not old now or am I missing something?

Great bit of Nostalgia.

If you keep going back, you'll find people watercooling their Voodoo5's with direct die cooling on the web somewhere ;)

MorpheusUK could you perhaps be missing this:- Originally Published: 23rd March 2003 (7years and change).

Good times, i remember the old FX series.
That really is the best looking water block i have ever seen.

You have a big challenge in beating the EVGA GTX480 water block though :P

Originally Posted by Evildead666
Great bit of Nostalgia.

If you keep going back, you'll find people watercooling their Voodoo5's with direct die cooling on the web somewhere ;)

Heh, IIRC the Voodoo 5 had a TDP of 15-30 Watt. You'd probably be able to OC the heck out of it that way, though :D

Awesome read. I think bit-tech should return to this style of writing, so much more personal.

Originally Posted by MorpheusUK
I do like the design of that. However correct me if I'm wrong but FX? is that not old now or am I missing something?

Just a wee bit lol

God this is long ago.. I remember first getting interested in PC's when the 6800 GT was just surfacing...

Oh man that is some nice craftmanship! I remember having one of these cards back in the day...boy did my ears bleed...

Originally Posted by Elledan

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Originally Posted by Evildead666
Great bit of Nostalgia.

If you keep going back, you'll find people watercooling their Voodoo5's with direct die cooling on the web somewhere ;)

Heh, IIRC the Voodoo 5 had a TDP of 15-30 Watt. You'd probably be able to OC the heck out of it that way, though :D

It was needed to get from 166 to 200MHz lol ;) (and even then it wasn't sure how long they would last..I think some hit 250.)
Fab Tech and processes have come a long way since those good old days....

I do believe the GeForce FX5800 brought more people into the idea of watercooling/Alternate Aircooling their GPU's.....

My first aftermarket GPU cooler was for the 9500Pro iirc. Up until then, adding fans just seemed to be the solution.

I still have these pictures in MyPictures folder. Bladerunner was something else. The guy was just years and years ahead of his time. I remember him coming on nokytech.net's forum (the biggest watercooling site back then) to answer questions about his projects. It was funny as hell trying to understand the frenchies (real ones) try to type in english

He also did a similar project with an R300 (Radeon 9700Pro , 2002)


http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5312/r300wc026.jpg

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5222/r300wc024.jpg



His craziest project however was a year and a half later with a 9800Pro


http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4606/r350wc500.jpg



http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9421/r300wc027.jpg

Dayum, I do remember these waterblocks. Was there a whole thread where he explained how these were made?

Loving the plug-and-cool - fittings :)

Darkened

Holy crap thats a lot of pipes Batman !!!!!!
And the size of the tubing ? Huge ;)

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/1266/reposte.jpg

Someone had to do it :D

On the home-page where it says "And we're letting you guys get a piece of it once again." I thought it meant Bit-tech were selling them again, or had stored one away for a lucky competition winner. Yet, again, my hopes were dashed as I realised the reality of the situation.

BT selling an FX5800?

Jesus, that's a collector's item right there, especially with the watercooling.

Aaah, the days when cards were less than 1ft long. ;-)

so the 480 is a blast to the past of the FX huh? we should so start doing those parody pics of like a jet taking off with the 480 as its engines and a women drying her hair with a 480 just like in the days of the FX, ah those were the days. :)

I had a 5500FX! I got it to replace my Geforce 4, Was it really that long ago?

@ Ghys - Fantastic pics m8. I am loving the rounded IDE cables. Top of the style pops.. I even had neon green ones. :)

Gotta love seeing the old stuff. It doesn't look THAT different from what we are dealing with nowadays expect for size.

I like how back when, we worried about 60c GPU die temperatures.

Originally Posted by Tulatin
I like how back when, we worried about 60c GPU die temperatures.

That's what my GTX275 idles at. On a cold day :p

My GTX280 Idles at 48C on a warm day.