well, my old dangerden maze 4 unfortunatly doesn't fit my new 6800 Non Ultra, like my old EVGA did.
so I need a new waterblock.
I figure I will sell this Maze4 and get something that does fit.
I looked at the big dangerden 6800 block and while it looks great and all, the design makes it very hard for me to work with, cause the barbs face straight up, and not outward, and they don't look like they could be easily modded to another position.
so I am really not too interested in that block.
but so far it looks like the easiest cooling solution there is...
I looked at polarflows VGA block here but the problem is, it just doesn't look like it would fit a 6800 in the slightest.
looks like a great block, but just doesn't look like it will fit the 6800's...
other then this, theres swiftech.
swiftech and me have always been a very bitter sweet combo.
I love thier build quality.
just I've never had a swiftech block that actually worked.
which isn't good in the least.
to make matters worse, I have had the MCW50 before and I sold it out of pure frustration.
I was trying to adapt it to a 1/2 inch inner diameter tubing to fit my dangerden stuff which was already 1/2 inch...
but I just could not figure any way to make the thing secure and not leak a waterfall when I turned the pump on. it was a real disaster, and I finally gave up and sold it, simply cause I couldn't see any way to use this block without creating a river at the same time.
I had what I thought was the right parts.
the 1/2 inch inner diamter barbs, tubing, the block and thats it.
but nope. it never worked.
this experience was about a year ago.
contemplating buying another one of these makes me really really aprehensive, cause my dangerden block is so damn easy to use, that this one just seems like a pain in the ass after what I remember of my last experience.
me and the MCW50 is like a monkey trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
but I see very very few alternatives to this block.
so my question is...
what exactly do I need to get this to work on a 6800?
I mean right down to the part number.
cause I really don't want to get this block again, and just begin to hate swiftech cause they simply won't make a waterblock with barbs on it.
I don't want to order the parts and have something come the wrong size or anything else, and I don't want to sit there trying to get something to work that should work right out of the box.
my instinct says to get the 1/2 inch diameter barbs.
the 6800 adaptor kit.
then the waterblock.
but thats exactly what I had last time, and it didnt work.
basically, I have no idea what I am doing, when concerned with swiftech stuff, cause I simply have never had a waterblock from them that was easy to use.
as dumb as that sounds, its the truth.
unless theres a better/easier waterblock out there I can get, I am kinda sure this is the block I have to get, not cause I want it, but cause theres just no other option.
the parts I "think" I need are these.
http://store.yahoo.com/sidewindercom...stto1tuid.html
http://store.yahoo.com/sidewindercom...mcgpucoo1.html
http://store.yahoo.com/sidewindercom...kitfornv1.html
but, other then the 6800 adaptor, this is the exact stuff I had with my first attempt with the MCW50 a year ago that ended so badly.
the most frustrating thing I remember was there was no instructions on this stuff, nothing, just some plastic parts (a huge pet peeve of mine, that I try to avoid is plastic parts) and some vague ideas of what I thought I had to do.
but nothing worked...
what I am trying to get is simply this.
what I ended up with, was something that looked like that, but water leaking from every inch around the barbs like a water faucet.
in short... help
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