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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/09/25 06:02:52
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/09/25 18:31:00
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Hi
Is it still possible to get one of these, I'm in the UK. Are the threads the "standard" G 1/4 thingies that Bitspower/XSPC use etc. Thinking about building a water cooled rig and not sure if I want to lay out for a 980 just yet.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/09/26 07:48:27
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Anything is possible, though I had not planned on making any more of them.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/09/26 08:11:18
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Wow, incredible work. I've been following this thread since it started, and I almost wish I had a Classified card so I could have bought one these works of art.  Great job, Nate!
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/09/26 10:20:13
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/09/26 14:46:11
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Hi Nate,
If you were to make more of these, what kind of time-frame would it be?
Thanks
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/09/28 21:23:48
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Nate, I am also interested in purchasing one as well.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/09/30 10:50:29
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Well, both of you, welcome to the forums! I am quite backed up with other projects, and they are backing up more and more. If you guys want to lock into the project, shoot me a PM or an e-mail. Since you both are very new to the forum, I would assume you can't PM, so just e-mail me.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/09/30 23:21:56
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/10/06 05:12:16
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Thanks! You guys keep me busy that for sure.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/10/21 21:23:31
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All PM's answered. Just need 1 more person to start a batch.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/11/01 11:24:26
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I want :D
contact me for detail
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/11/03 09:44:00
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I think you have to contact me for details ;)
email is in the last line of the signature block.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/11/11 18:48:09
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Just wanted to say that this looks really sweet!
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/11/13 17:19:35
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2014/12/27 20:31:58
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Going to be making another batch of these. Just need 1 more body.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/01/08 14:50:40
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i lurk the forums since 2006 and rarely post a reply but i just had to on this project.
this is such beautiful work i seriously wish i had one of these cards instead of my vanilla 680. i would give up my sli for a classy with this block. hah.
very nice work and really neat to see a grass roots project come up out of a labor of love. any chance you can show us the creation part of this for those of us interested in learning the process of how you created the blocks in caD?
thanks for your time.
robert
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/01/12 08:21:28
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/01/12 08:29:39
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But, I can say how the process works....
The first step is to gather the interested folks in the community. The 10 step process would cost a fortune for a single person to bear the brunt of themselves, so I try to eat the cost of the design myself and just charge for raw materials and machining. But here is a simplified 10 step version to how most of my blocks are born.
1, receive the customers card.
2, pull out the calipers and measure everything.
3, design the overall shell block around the mounting holes
4, design extrudes on the back of the card to avoid the caps and such
5, design the inner channel and O-ring
6, print out a print-to-scale paper prototype and lay it on the card to see how everything fits.
7, design fixture plate and how the raw materials will be clamped
8, make fixture plate
9, make a prototype and test fit it
10, begin production
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/01/23 18:59:08
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Anyone else want in? Getting close to starting a batch.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/02/26 07:13:53
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Um. Any chance you could share part of the cad files? Or rather the layout&dimensions for clearance etc. Not planning to do any watercooling (nor have means to make blocks like you do) but now that pre-filled liquidcoolers are cheap enough figured I could design&make the bracket&heatsinks. Access to metalworkshop and rudimentary knowledge (and teachers) should be enough for something like that. ID studies with mandatory cad/cam ftw'ish.
Sure I could pull out my own card, strip the cooler and put it all together again but if there's someone with pre-made measures that would be significantly helpful. Especially skipping the trial-and-error of testing parts on the card. Not keen on idea of stripping&rebuilding everytime I need to check something if I can do that in cad - well, some of it anyways - before actually making the model.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/02/26 10:14:54
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If you want a waterblock for it, I am going to start a batch in the next few weeks. However if you look at the list a few posts up of all the things that I have to do being a 1 man show on how to do this... its quite a bit of work. I wasn't keen on taking the whole card apart, putting it on my CNC and getting the measurements myself either, but its what I had to do to make the part. I had to do it a few times and adjust to make sure everything fits with multiple prototypes.
Granted this is just a hobby for me, but I did put a LOT of time into this product. Id rather sell you a block and you be happier. Save yourself the trouble, I already did all the leg work. Once you have the block in your hands you will be much happier that you went that route instead of trial and error stuff. Trust me I started that way.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/03/09 12:11:26
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/03/09 13:29:28
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Man I didn't know you had made blocks for these cards. I could have picked some up cheap a little while back but since I'm water cooled I passed on them thinking there were no blocks. Very nice work and the delrin top looks fantastic.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/03/09 17:41:31
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Its not to late you know...
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/03/09 17:53:06
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nateman_doo
Its not to late you know...
If I still had the opportunity to get the cards I would. They would be a nice upgrade from my 760's.
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/03/17 17:04:05
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☄ Helpfulby nateman_doo 2015/03/18 17:24:01
hey guys just dropping in. seven months later and they are holding up awesome. everything turned out great. Thanks again nateman!!!
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Re: GTX 680 Waterblock - Sign up here
2015/03/18 17:25:03
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Great to hear!!
Almost done cutting the copper bottoms in this batch.
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Re: GTX 680 CLASSIFIED Waterblock - COMPLETED
2015/03/26 22:29:49
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Wow, those look incredibly awesome.
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Re: GTX 680 CLASSIFIED Waterblock - COMPLETED
2015/03/27 06:54:30
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troy14
Wow, those look incredibly awesome.
Thanks! FINALLY started cutting some Delrin tops. This batch has been giving me heartache.
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