Water cooling a graphics card

[halcyonforever]

I am looking at a future upgrade that might require liquid cooling my graphics card. I've seen alot of board specific water blocks, but what if you can't find a match to your existing card. I know of several general water blocks that might fit on the gpu seperately, would I just have to daisy chain several of those to cover all the hot spots on the card or just be out of luck?

[Aldersan]

Probably just a general water block on the GPU, and maybe some heatsinks on the chips?

[Fuganater]

Universal GPU blocks are WAY cheaper than specific ones. $40 vs $100+. What GPU are you trying to cool?

[jdbnsn]

as above, typically you use the smaller square block for the processor and a series of heatsinks on the ram chips

[diluzio91]

you'll need 2 blocks for an nvidia card, the control chip gets way too hot to cool with a passive sink, or at least a more active cooling solution

[halcyonforever]

Well the issue isn't the video card per-se, it's that the motherboard PCI-E x16 slots are too close together and adding a second video card would basically block the intake of the first one. So my thought was when I go that upgrade path to convert to water cooling.

The card is an AMD 6770. I just got it installed last night and it is fast enough I shouldn't need to go crossfirex for a while.

[Fuganater]

So..... wc it anyways!!!


"It's not cooled till it's watercooled" - me

[diluzio91]

haha... you can run a 5770 block on it no problem, its the exact same card with hdmi 1.4a and the newer display port

[SXRguyinMA]

as long as it's a reference card - the style with the big blower on the back end. If it's one with a center-mounted fan or even 2 fans you'll need to find a specific block for it, or just go the universal route

[diluzio91]

as long as it's a reference card - the style with the big blower on the back end. If it's one with a center-mounted fan or even 2 fans you'll need to find a specific block for it, or just go the universal route

the pcb is still the same i think, you just need to get an extra set of screws.