Water Cooling the GTX280

Merlin

Merlin

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I'm looking into water cooling the GTX280.
So far I see the Danger Den Block and its cheaper than the EVGA block.
The cooling will be for only the GPU, as I already use the CoolIt Freezone for the Q9450 CPU.
It's been a while since I water cooled a system and I need some feed back on pumps/waterflow, size of tubing and size of radiator/fan ( airflow ).
Any recomendations?

Merlin
 
Rob Williams

Rob Williams

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Ouch. Tacking on a $150 waterblock really does decrease the value of the card, doesn't it?

I wish I had a recommendation, but I'm more of a water-cooling noob than anyone.
 
Rob Williams

Rob Williams

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I guess I'm just having a difficult time understanding what the point of putting a $150 block on a $400 video card is. What's wrong, exactly, with the stock cooler? For $150, I'd almost ante up the rest to get a second GPU. I just can't see any reasoning for such an expensive cooling solution that's about 40% the value of the GPU itself.

It all depends on what you want, I guess. I just can't believe how expensive those blocks are... it's insane.
 
Kougar

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Merlin, I gotta agree with Rob in that I do not recommend that DD full body block.

The only one I would suggest is the one I use right now in my sig.

GPU Block: http://www.jab-tech.com/D-Tek-FuZion-GFX-2-pr-4206.html

GPU Uni-sink: http://www.jab-tech.com/D-Tek-UNI-Sink-nVidia-GTX280-260-pr-4207.html

Cost: $80 + a large tube of thermal paste. And I really mean large... that is an absurdly huge IHS for this GPU.

I think I used more TIM just once for this GPU block mount than I have for the last four CPU block mounts. :rolleyes: Performance has been excellent and mounting was easy, once you are able to strip down the GTX 260/280 that is. I also bought memory sinks for the chips on the bottom of the card, but you can just use the backplate that comes with the card if you don't care about it.
 
Merlin

Merlin

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Kougar said:
Merlin, I gotta agree with Rob in that I do not recommend that DD full body block.

The only one I would suggest is the one I use right now in my sig.

GPU Block: http://www.jab-tech.com/D-Tek-FuZion-GFX-2-pr-4206.html

GPU Uni-sink: http://www.jab-tech.com/D-Tek-UNI-Sink-nVidia-GTX280-260-pr-4207.html

Cost: $80 + a large tube of thermal paste. And I really mean large... that is an absurdly huge IHS for this GPU.

I think I used more TIM just once for this GPU block mount than I have for the last four CPU block mounts. :rolleyes: Performance has been excellent and mounting was easy, once you are able to strip down the GTX 260/280 that is. I also bought memory sinks for the chips on the bottom of the card, but you can just use the backplate that comes with the card if you don't care about it.
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Well, that looks a lot better, when I did a search, those other two were the only ones that I found.
lol, Now....what size tubing, pump and rad ?
This is what the Forums are all about

thankz, Merlin
 
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