Water Cooling full GPU block for RTX 2070 Founders Edition or MSI Gaming Z?

[Ignitros]

Hey everyone! I am contemplating a new build and want to incorporate a water cooled theme. I've been looking at GPU's that I can use a full water block on and the only card I could guarantee that seemed to be the Founders Edition GPU. I had narrowed my choice down to the MSI RTX 2070 Gaming Z up to the point where we started looking at water cooling solutions. I really have only been looking at Corsair for water cooling so if anyone knows of any options for the afformentioned card I originally had in mind I'm all ears.

Edited August 7, 2019 by Ignitros
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[crosstiger]

On 8/7/2019 at 5:21 AM, Ignitros said:

Hey everyone! I am contemplating a new build and want to incorporate a water cooled theme. I've been looking at GPU's that I can use a full water block on and the only card I could guarantee that seemed to be the Founders Edition GPU. I had narrowed my choice down to the MSI RTX 2070 Gaming Z up to the point where we started looking at water cooling solutions. I really have only been looking at Corsair for water cooling so if anyone knows of any options for the afformentioned card I originally had in mind I'm all ears.

As for the founders edition I only found a full cover block from alphacool (Alphacool NexXxoS GPX - Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060/2070 (Super) M01) or Corsair (Hydro X Series XG7 RGB-20).

 

If you would go for ASUS or EVGA you'll get a wider choice of blocks. Haven't had much luck finding one for the msi card.

[Ignitros]

@crosstiger I'm finding the same thing. What I'm leaning towards at this point is going with the ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Advanced Overclocked and the Corsair GPU water block.

[crosstiger]

11 minutes ago, Ignitros said:

@crosstiger I'm finding the same thing. What I'm leaning towards at this point is going with the ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Advanced Overclocked and the Corsair GPU water block.

That is rather the performance uplift from the 2070. While the asus cards are a good choice, at this point I would also suggest looking at the 2080 founders edition + corsair block. At my place I can get the founders edition from nvidia directly for 740€ (~100€ less than the asus model). If I'm not mistaken the nvidia cards are higher binned (better oc).

[Mick Naughty]

Prefer the cheaper blocks for the reference stuff. All perform the same overall so it doesn’t really matter. Unless you are chasing that try hard 3 FPS gain.