GPU only water cooling? Safe?

[rombom4]

So I have a Gigabyte r9 280x, and it doesn't have a stock pcb, so when I was looking to buy th eparts for my custom water cooling loop, the only options are gpu only waterblocks. I realize this doesn't cool the mossfets or vram, and am worried it would be unstable. I do have an intake fan that blows air directly to it, but are there options out there to keep them cooler? I have seen little adhesive heatsinks oyu can attach, do tehy help? Or am I just way too paranoid

[Guest]

They should help

 

http://koolance.com/video-ram-heat-sinks

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835708012

http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l2/g40/c21/list/p1/Air_Cooling-VGA_HeatsinksCoolers.html

[Archangel1994]

1) Why water cool an R9 280x? That money could be spent in a new GPU (Like a brand new GTX 980) which will annihilate the R9 280X

2) GPU only means only the GPU yes. This means the VRAM, Mosfets, VRM's, etc. are NOT cooled and this is far from recommended.

 

If I were you I'd get a better GPU instead of watercooling but if you are adamant on going watercooling then you need to make sure you have an excellent fan blowing DIRECTLY on said parts that are not covered. Additionally you could look into getting a Kraken G10 and see if it is compatible with the R9 280x and then get an AIO to go along with it. Much cheaper and more reliable than having a ghetto way of cooling the parts that are not covered.

 

Again, I don't recommend this at all. I HIGHLY recommend you upgrade the GPU instead to something like a GTX 980. Watercooling the R9 280X is not worth it

[rombom4]

1) Why water cool an R9 280x? That money could be spent in a new GPU (Like a brand new GTX 980) which will annihilate the R9 280X

2) GPU only means only the GPU yes. This means the VRAM, Mosfets, VRM's, etc. are NOT cooled and this is far from recommended.

 

If I were you I'd get a better GPU instead of watercooling but if you are adamant on going watercooling then you need to make sure you have an excellent fan blowing DIRECTLY on said parts that are not covered. Additionally you could look into getting a Kraken G10 and see if it is compatible with the R9 280x and then get an AIO to go along with it. Much cheaper and more reliable than having a ghetto way of cooling the parts that are not covered.

 

Again, I don't recommend this at all. I HIGHLY recommend you upgrade the GPU instead to something like a GTX 980. Watercooling the R9 280X is not worth it

I actually just found a great waterblock for it The main reason is that I have a friend who is going to sell me his other 280x, and will go crossfire, and I build a lot of pc's for people, so I can sell stuff off pretty quickly.