Reply 20 of 41, by FaSMaN
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Okay , having a quick look at the photos , the reason he used "playdoh" is becouse he added 4x paltiers under the watercooling kit , I can only assume he is thinking that somehow with the paltiers he is going to cool the card well enough that it will run below ambient and condensation will form, it also looks like a starch based playdoh so I am pretty sure it's conductive unlike the silicon ones.
This is grossly stupid, the cards overclocking potential isn't hindered from a thermal perspective , but rather from a architecture perspective , the card just doesn't overclocking well, also he mentioned that the card would not start cause there was playdoh on the smd components so clearly the stuff he used was conductive....
He did make a nice waterblock and it would have been impressive if he just left it at that , water-cooled v5 6000 is pretty cool.
I get extreme overclocking with new hardware to try and break world records , but no one is going to care if you hold the record for a gfx card that is so old and never even made it to manufacture.