Anyone done Water on HIS IceQ X2 GHz edition 7970?

[dJabba]

Hi there

was wondering if anyone has watercooled their "HIS IceQ X2 GHz edition 7970"? I'm in the progress of switching to water (cpu only for now as it seems).

EK has a plate that appears to have a visual match, but only because the GHz edition has the same product number as the non-GHz. I know this one has a modified VRM alone from the fact that it has 2x8pin instead of 6+8 as power connectors.

There would ofcourse be the option with just a gpu plate, but I'm afraid that won't be good for the rest of the card.

Anyone done this card, or know of someone who has or rumours of plates matching? I contacted HIS directly and asked, but they have no partners for the card (plate) and said it aint reference design.

Quote reply:
Thank you for your support in HIS.
Please note that this model is not reference design.
Most obviously, it has more power supply and PWM phases than the AMD reference board.
We are sorry that we do not have watercool plate partners.

[Acebmxer]

Re: Anyone done Water on HIS IceQ X2 GHz edition 7970?

I would suggest contacting EK directly. If you can remove the stock heatsink and take a pic of the card naked and send it to EK they can tell you if they have a water block that will work for it.

[dJabba]

Re: Anyone done Water on HIS IceQ X2 GHz edition 7970?

thanks for the tip. Will have to check if I have enough heat transfer paste around though.. so i can attach it again after :)

[Acebmxer]

Re: Anyone done Water on HIS IceQ X2 GHz edition 7970?

That will help alot with temps until you can water cool the card. That is if you can.

I bought the Sapphire 7970 and underload I could not push pass 1125mhz with out gpu reaching 80c. Pulled the fan off and removed the 10x to much thermal crap they call a paste and replaced with MX-4 and dropped 4-6c in temp and can run it up to 1200mhz