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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd Reply #15 - 16.09.12 at 17:47:54 Tim wrote on 16.09.12 at 12:02:08: Looks good, lots of work has gone into this. Thank you
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd Reply #16 - 09.10.12 at 13:01:35 The green color is good now. Soon the next step...
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd Reply #17 - 11.10.12 at 14:32:49 Preparing the card with plastik 70: Preparing waterblocks: Preparing the tec's:
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Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd
Reply #18 - 11.10.12 at 19:06:20

Oh my good... you now killed the card Cry

Plastik 70 can't be removed, it is meant for permanent protection.

YOU KILLED THAT VOODOO 5 6000!!!!

You should have used "LiquidTape" which isolates the card and protects it from condensate, but can me removed easily like a normal tape.

I simply don't know what to say...

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd
Reply #19 - 11.10.12 at 19:39:55

Loeschzwerg wrote on 11.10.12 at 19:06:20:

Oh my good... you now killed the card Cry

Plastik 70 can't be removed, it is meant for permanent protection.

YOU KILLED THAT VOODOO 5 6000!!!!

You should have used "LiquidTape" which isolates the card and protects it from condensate, but can me removed easily like a normal tape.

I simply don't know what to say...

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd
Reply #20 - 12.10.12 at 10:43:27

Loeschzwerg wrote on 11.10.12 at 19:06:20:

Oh my good... you now killed the card Cry

Plastik 70 can't be removed, it is meant for permanent protection.

YOU KILLED THAT VOODOO 5 6000!!!!

You should have used "LiquidTape" which isolates the card and protects it from condensate, but can me removed easily like a normal tape.

I simply don't know what to say...

Plastik 70 can be removed with acetone.

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Reply #21 - 12.10.12 at 12:28:58

I know this is something the description says, but it does not work that well with all the tiny parts the card is covered with. You've got also the problem that Plastik 70 is under every single memory pin... This is a mess.

Do me a favor and don't use Plastik 70 in the future and leave the other cards unmodded.

You are killing those very rare "hardware oldtimers" one by one. It's a shame and a hit in everybodys face who is searching for such a card.

New air cooling -> ok, it can be returned to original state
Watercooling -> ok, it can be returned to original state
Peltier and coating it with Plastik 70 -> very high stress to the GPUs and the whole card. Lifetime will decrease very fast because of the temperature difference. This Peltier experiment might be ok for a short test, but this could have been first checked on a normal 5500 if it works out on clock speeds at all. Removing Plastik 70 is also very difficult and chances are high to harm the card...

You could have gone for LiquidTape or for some special plasticine used for LN2 OC sessions.

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Reply #22 - 12.10.12 at 14:15:32

Loeschzwerg wrote on 12.10.12 at 12:28:58:

I know this is something the description says, but it does not work that well with all the tiny parts the card is covered with. You've got also the problem that Plastik 70 is under every single memory pin... This is a mess.

Do me a favor and don't use Plastik 70 in the future and leave the other cards unmodded.

You are killing those very rare "hardware oldtimers" one by one. It's a shame and a hit in everybodys face who is searching for such a card.

New air cooling -> ok, it can be returned to original state
Watercooling -> ok, it can be returned to original state
Peltier and coating it with Plastik 70 -> very high stress to the GPUs and the whole card. Lifetime will decrease very fast because of the temperature difference. This Peltier experiment might be ok for a short test, but this could have been first checked on a normal 5500 if it works out on clock speeds at all. Removing Plastik 70 is also very difficult and chances are high to harm the card...

You could have gone for LiquidTape or for some special plasticine used for LN2 OC sessions.

I will use the Tec card only for a short test to see what are the max o/c frequency and max marks on 3dmark01se.
I will never remove plastik 70 of my card.
No Risks to damage it !

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd
Reply #23 - 12.10.12 at 18:19:33

Loeschzwerg wrote on 12.10.12 at 12:28:58:

I know this is something the description says, but it does not work that well with all the tiny parts the card is covered with. You've got also the problem that Plastik 70 is under every single memory pin... This is a mess.

Do me a favor and don't use Plastik 70 in the future and leave the other cards unmodded.

You are killing those very rare "hardware oldtimers" one by one. It's a shame and a hit in everybodys face who is searching for such a card.

New air cooling -> ok, it can be returned to original state
Watercooling -> ok, it can be returned to original state
Peltier and coating it with Plastik 70 -> very high stress to the GPUs and the whole card. Lifetime will decrease very fast because of the temperature difference. This Peltier experiment might be ok for a short test, but this could have been first checked on a normal 5500 if it works out on clock speeds at all. Removing Plastik 70 is also very difficult and chances are high to harm the card...

You could have gone for LiquidTape or for some special plasticine used for LN2 OC sessions.

He's got enough of them. Does it really matter? I don't see how he's killing it? It's a card that will be used for peltier cooling, why would he want to get it back to the original state? I like it, it's not messy, it's pretty classy actually. Looks great on the 6000. I didn't like the full block air cooling, but this is something else, a lot of money, and time spent on it, and not to mention nice looking too. Don't see what the problem is. People take 6000s too serious. They are nice cards but not rare to say the least. I could have had the same amount of cards he had if I had the money, so could almost any one on here.

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Reply #24 - 12.10.12 at 19:55:19

The cooler does look very good, indeed. It was done by someone who knows what he does

Attaching peltier elements to a rare card, without to know if it helps anything when it comes to OC, this my big problem. This should have been first tested on a normal 4500/5500 to see if the VSA100 does have more clock resources at all.

I think that the watercooling solution wasn't at it's limit and a simple voltage boost from 2,7 to 2,9v could have shown if the cores can be clocked higher. We know that the VSA100 are also able to work with 3,3v for a short time!

Why not test the watercooling v6k to it's limits first? Why start to mod another v6k without knowing that there is a benefit and do all this effort and waste the money (an the card...)? This is something I simple don't understand.

All those cooling modifications could've been done with just one card. You see the point?

Adding Plastik 70 here is just the top of the whole story, by the way. With just a little bit research in the web one could've found way better solutions than using this kind of stuff. This is my opinion.

Having enough v6k does not excuse overhasty actions Wink

Ok, from my side everything is said.

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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd Reply #25 - 13.10.12 at 14:58:18 Some pictures of plastik 70 on the card:
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd Reply #26 - 14.10.12 at 21:33:27 Better protection with epoxy:
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd Reply #27 - 15.10.12 at 15:05:10 TEC in action:
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Peltier Watercooling 2nd Reply #28 - 27.12.12 at 00:07:45 Hello, The Control Panel: Let's start... Let's see if condensation occurs... Next step for the next time...
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