The Danger Den GTX580
The Danger Den GTX580
So without much added technical info, we're diving straight into a photo-shoot where we'll guide you through the paces of installing the liquid-cooling block onto the GeForce GTX 580, which of course needs to follow NVIDIA's reference design.
Mind you that you purchase just the cooling block, you'll need a full water-cooling loop of course; tubing, radiator, reservoir, pump, coolant and ADD this to your liquid cooling loop. When you purchase the block do not forget to order some fittings and clamps as well. Two of each ;)
So here we have the block. Heavy duty stuff really, completely made out of copper and the top side has gotten a nickel plating. There is a discussion that we know of that nickel plating would have an adverse impact on overall cooling performance, but really... it would be so little that you probably couldn't even measure it. As such, nickel plating for the win, we say.
The product comes with necessary screws, washers, one fine block, thermal paste (two syringes of it BTW) and a leaflet with some basic instructions. Fear not though, we'll explain it all as we guide you through the installation process...
Here we have top side of the block itself, I really like that nickel plating TBH, looks far better than pure copper. The block is full-coverage to the obverse side of the PCB, cooling all critical areas such as the GPU, the memory chips, and the important VRM area.
Designed for the GeForce GTX 580, it comes in three variants based on materials:
- All copper
- Nickel top and copper base,
- Nickel top and nickel-plated copper base.
As you can see, the top of the block has a nice mirror-finish. But let's flip 'r arround.
The three models are selling at US $115-$130 range and are available from the Danger Den website. Now if you somehow see resemblances, then that is correct... BFG always used DD blocks for their products. May that company rest in peace as yes, they went bankrupt.