I recently water cooled my XFX 6950 2gb reference cards. The specific model I am testing is (XFX HD-695A-CNFC AMD Radeon HD 6950 2G). I put on some XSPC water blocks, as with air and unlocked bios, they were hitting 95C + on load, which was worrying me.
hardware / test setup :
CPU : i5 2500k (also water cooled with an HK Supreme HF)
Motherboard : Asus P8P67 PRO
Case : Corsair 600T
PSU : Corsair HX1000
Memory : 4x4GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
GPU : 2x Reference 2GB XFX 6950’s shader unlocked and oc’d
Hdd : OCZ Solid 2 120GB
You can view the rest of the rig here :
http://vivithemage.com/2011/04/water-cooling-a-corsair-600t-case-i5-2500k-2×6950/
The load temp will be running OCCT v3.1.0 for about 15 minutes.
Benchmarks – shader unlock bios only – 800/1250
idle – 38C (GPU1) 40C(GPU2)
load – 44C(GPU1) 46C(GPU2)
average fps – 635
Benchmarks – shader unlock bios and OC – 840/1325
load – 45C (GPU1) 47C(GPU2)
average fps – 650
Benchmarks – shader unlock bios and OC – 900/1400
load – 46C (GPU1) 49C(GPU2)
average fps – 675
Benchmarks – shader unlock bios and OC – 1000/1500
BSOD
If you want me to test some games, let me know. I can always switch the BIOS back to stock as well.