Danger Den DD-29XT HD 2900 XT Waterblock

mandelore · Aug 9, 2007

Danger Den is considered to be one of the best companies around when it comes to high performance watercooling hardware. Taking a similar approach used on their previous Tyee waterblock, Danger Den designed a full coverage waterblock for the Radeon HD 2900 Series, the DD-29XT. The waterblock and can cool both the GPU, Memory and Voltage Regulators efficiently and promises dramatic results.

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Irish_PXzyan · Aug 9, 2007

I like this review, ive never heard of DangerDen Waterblock before! this is all new and from all your tests..it seems pretty incredable to me!
look at the temp differences!! seriously...this is madness!!!

I will have to keep an eye out on these!

BTW...is there a thingy for the 8800GTS cards?? id love to get my hands on one of these!!

sneekypeet · Aug 9, 2007

they most def. have blocks for your 8800...goto their site and have a look around!

http://www.dangerden.com/store/

mandelore · Aug 9, 2007

Irish_PXzyan said:
I like this review, ive never heard of DangerDen Waterblock before! this is all new and from all your tests..it seems pretty incredable to me!
look at the temp differences!! seriously...this is madness!!!

I will have to keep an eye out on these!

BTW...is there a thingy for the 8800GTS cards?? id love to get my hands on one of these!!

there ya go mate http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=272&cat=0&page=

Irish_PXzyan · Aug 9, 2007

sweeet!! thanks!!

Once I buy a new mobo/cpu/ram I must buy one of these for my 8800!! this will go nicely

infrared · Aug 9, 2007

nice review!

btw you're a brave man putting as5 on the memory chips! I'd feel much more comfortable with Ceramique! :laugh:

hat · Aug 9, 2007

50C on a 2900XT !!

mandelore · Aug 9, 2007

infrared said:
nice review!

btw you're a brave man putting as5 on the memory chips! I'd feel much more comfortable with Ceramique!

id have went with cool labs liquid silver but i ran out

Edit:

Ill be doing some more benching to see how high i can take the core and memory on this waterblock while still on stock volts as part of my project, and if it does allow a higher stable overclock ill get some updated 3Dmark06 scores :toast:

mandelore · Aug 11, 2007

Edited and updated :toast:

savillm · Aug 11, 2007

wow nice review.

Frogger · Aug 11, 2007

great little read will be watching for the voltage benches :toast:

Steevo · Aug 11, 2007

I have done AC5 on my vregs. memory chips, and core of my X1800XT. And now I know what cooler I am getting later this fall.

Nice review Mandelore. :rockout:

mandelore · Aug 11, 2007

Hey thnx guys, glad you found it interesting, its been re-edited and some more stuff changed, namely the tables

tkpenalty · Aug 11, 2007

Nice first review man

I hope to see more of your reviews

EDIT: Hey wait a minute... why wasnt it added to the front page entries?

W1zzard · Aug 12, 2007

tkpenalty said:
Nice first review man I hope to see more of your reviews

EDIT: Hey wait a minute... why wasnt it added to the front page entries?

will be added there soon

WarEagleAU · Aug 14, 2007

Beautiful Mandelore and the pictures are superb. Very nice block indeed and it is definately worth the price.

AsphyxiA · Aug 15, 2007

great review man but one thing, it seems like there is almost too much thermal paste on the die, ive always used a new razorblade to smooth out AC5 on my graphics card but, meh, it probably dosen't make that much of a differance anyway. Want one but noe moneys for AsphyxiA so ill just have to dream.

WOutZoR · Aug 19, 2007

Nice review :toast:

infrared said:
btw you're a brave man putting as5 on the memory chips! I'd feel much more comfortable with Ceramique!

same here man :laugh:

To bad the block came with a cracked plexi top though. Notice the screw to the right of the 'Warranty void if removed' sticker from this picture:

A simple washer between screw and plexiglas could prevent the plexiglas from cracking. Don't you think?

The HD2900 block is still a peace of art imho :respect:

Great job DangerDen

mandelore · Aug 19, 2007

woot, i made it on the Danger Den website

http://www.dangerden.com/

DaMulta · Nov 8, 2007

I would like to see some more reviews from you mandelore

So this is two slot cooling correct?

mandelore · Nov 8, 2007

DaMulta said:
I would like to see some more reviews from you mandelore

So this is two slot cooling correct?

Oh there will be more reviews

just got my new BallistiX Tracer pc28500's today, and waiting for the Asus M3A32-MVP mobo to become available in europe, so will probs review that, then will review the phenom 9700 or higher in the new year (just getting a cheapo X2 cpu to tide me over)

oh, and its a single slot cooler

I never did get round to posting pics of what my pc looks like now, its got a rather large radiator on the back side panel, pretty massive thermochill one.

DaMulta · Nov 8, 2007

So if I had say the 790 board at newegg and 4 off these blocks/4 HD cards.... I could do the power plant in my PC Room?

d44ve · Nov 8, 2007

very nice review!

mandelore · Nov 9, 2007

d44ve said:
very nice review!

thanks man,

took me a good ole while to get the data collected and written up

Chicken Patty · Nov 29, 2007

hey mandelore, apart from it being a great review, what are you getting on 3dmark right now? I didn't see them above so thats why I ask you.

Also lets say I get this now, later on if I decide to get the rest of my pc water cooled do I have to go and get another kit, or can I just go ahead buy whatever I need to finish it off seperately? Any feedback is appreciated, thank you.

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