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    DarkFade reacted to Applefreak in Mixing cooling parts companies   
    I am guessing you are talking about the Corsair open loop stuff? As long as it is a copper or nickel plated copper heatsink, you should not run into any issues. Their GPU blocks look a lot like EK blocks to me. AFAIK Corsair is also using EK blocks with some modifications.
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    DarkFade reacted to Mamonos in Mixing cooling parts companies   
    Personally I am not familiar with Bykski products, you should check whether they make in aluminium or nickel/copper.
     
    Corsair is using nickel-plated copper for the Hydro-X series and that shall not be mixed with aluminium.
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    DarkFade reacted to SolarNova in Mixing cooling parts companies   
    it is fine to mix.
     
    I for example have a EK CPU block, Barrow GPU block, XSPC rads and Alphacool rads, with Monsoon fittings.
     
    Just dont mix metals. Copper and Nickel are fine.
    Aluminium not so much.
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    DarkFade reacted to xreaperx22 in Mixing cooling parts companies   
    i can say for sure they make there blocks with nickel plated copper and there rads are copper brass,there fittings are pretty good also and cheapest on the market,youll be fine using them,i have corsair mixed with bykski on a side rig and my main rig has bykski and ek stuff mixed both are doing great!
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    DarkFade reacted to Tristerin in Mixing cooling parts companies   
    Blocks are compatible with PCB layouts, if a block works on your cards PCB, then the fittings are going to be industry standard.  Just ensure you have a terminal for your block included - and its the terminal that will then have the G1/4 threading needed to put this into any other typical loops parts.
     
    EDIT - I could go into making sure the metals are correct, but I mix metals and use Antifreeze on my loops so those things are not on my personal radar
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    DarkFade reacted to minibois in 2700x and 1080ti   
    My estimate would be around ~390Wfor the full system under load.
    I base that on this benchmark/review of the 2700X which includes power usage with the full system with a GTX 1080 installed.
    https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_7_2700x_review,7.html
     
    I also base that on the fact that a 1080 Ti is more power hungry than a GTX 1080, as shown by this review:
    https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-gaming-x-trio-review,7.html
    Keep in mind this is power consumption for GPU only, with the 1080 Ti being almost 100W higher.
     
    You could use PCPartPicker to setup your entire PC and it also gives a power rating, but I would recommend a good quality 650W+ PSU.
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