AIO for Graphics Cards

[ValkyrieStar]

So, i'm working on watercooling my PC, though as full custom loops are too high maintenance for the amount of time im actually at the pc (its more of a show-off machine than anything else). I've taken to AIO coolers.

 

Ive fitted my cpu with a Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm up in the top cooling my i7-7700K @ 5.1ghz and currently have a Titan X maxwell with the stock cooler blowing out of the case from that first pcie slot.

 

Ive ordered a Kraken G10 bracket that lets me mount cpu AIOs to the graphics card, so i'm awaiting that (it will need some tweaking to fit with the wifi / sound cards that are in the slots below), but until i get an actual cooler for it i've got nothing.

 

So, my question is, what AIO will fit from the gpu core itself, and mount in that front 240mm area in the front of the case (it will be intake so the fans will still be there) i have a fractal design arc mini r2 case.

 

TL:DR;

I need an AIO to fit from TItan X GPU in the top PCIe slot, to the front 240mm mount in my Arc Mini R2 case.

[Mello]

omg... Before I read this, are you building it on your bed???

I'm having a panic attack... not really

[stealth80]

52 minutes ago, ValkyrieStar said:

So, i'm working on watercooling my PC, though as full custom loops are too high maintenance for the amount of time im actually at the pc (its more of a show-off machine than anything else). I've taken to AIO coolers.

 

Ive fitted my cpu with a Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm up in the top cooling my i7-7700K @ 5.1ghz and currently have a Titan X maxwell with the stock cooler blowing out of the case from that first pcie slot.

 

Ive ordered a Kraken G10 bracket that lets me mount cpu AIOs to the graphics card, so i'm awaiting that (it will need some tweaking to fit with the wifi / sound cards that are in the slots below), but until i get an actual cooler for it i've got nothing.

 

So, my question is, what AIO will fit from the gpu core itself, and mount in that front 240mm area in the front of the case (it will be intake so the fans will still be there) i have a fractal design arc mini r2 case.

 

TL:DR;

I need an AIO to fit from TItan X GPU in the top PCIe slot, to the front 240mm mount in my Arc Mini R2 case.

Remember you will need to cool the VRMS and the vram

[pyrojoe34]

5 hours ago, stealth80 said:

Remember you will need to cool the VRMS and the vram

Don't know about the Kraken but I have the Corsair HG10 which has a metal body and thermal pads on the VRM and vRAM. I then bought some of these which I stuck to the inside surfaces of the shroud for extra surface area (I put 7 of them throughout the shroud). Between the fan on the shroud, the bracket itself, the metal backplate I have (thermal pads on the back of the VRM/vRAM to the backplate as well), and the heatsinks, the VRM and vRAM stay very cool (using a laser thermometer I don't see the VRM surface temps go above 55-60C, core temp stays below 60 as well). Even before I bought the heatsinks I never had heat issues with the VRM/vRAM, but switching to a better (and quieter) fan on the bracket and adding the heatsinks dropped the temps by at least 5C.

 

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OP: The Titan is a beast so consider a 240mm AIO (should fit in the front of the case just make sure the tubing is long and flexible enough) and think about adding some of the heatsinks to the bracket to help the other components a bit. My 980 will heat up an H80i v2 (thick but only 120mm rad) water temp to almost 48C which is a bit high for water (you probably want to aim to keep it below 50C). I also would consider getting a support bracket like I have to help combat sag since the whole thing will probably be pretty heavy.

[GoldieFoxx]

With GPU AiO's, any CPU AiO will work just fine for the GPU itself, but you'll need to find a solution for cooling the VRM's too

 

also, DO NOT BUILD YOUR PC ON A BED!!!!

Thats just asking for trouble. lots and lots of static buildup

[ValkyrieStar]

2 hours ago, GoldieFoxx said:

With GPU AiO's, any CPU AiO will work just fine for the GPU itself, but you'll need to find a solution for cooling the VRM's too

 

also, DO NOT BUILD YOUR PC ON A BED!!!!

Thats just asking for trouble. lots and lots of static buildup

 

It's a cotton sheet, so static buildup should be at a minimum, cant sleep with anything non-cotton, too rustley lol...

 

3 hours ago, pyrojoe34 said:

Don't know about the Kraken but I have the Corsair HG10 which has a metal body and thermal pads on the VRM and vRAM. I then bought some of these which I stuck to the inside surfaces of the shroud for extra surface area (I put 7 of them throughout the shroud). Between the fan on the shroud, the bracket itself, the metal backplate I have (thermal pads on the back of the VRM/vRAM to the backplate as well), and the heatsinks, the VRM and vRAM stay very cool (using a laser thermometer I don't see the VRM surface temps go above 55-60C, core temp stays below 60 as well). Even before I bought the heatsinks I never had heat issues with the VRM/vRAM, but switching to a better (and quieter) fan on the bracket and adding the heatsinks dropped the temps by at least 5C.

 

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OP: The Titan is a beast so consider a 240mm AIO (should fit in the front of the case just make sure the tubing is long and flexible enough) and think about adding some of the heatsinks to the bracket to help the other components a bit. My 980 will heat up an H80i v2 (thick but only 120mm rad) water temp to almost 48C which is a bit high for water (you probably want to aim to keep it below 50C). I also would consider getting a support bracket like I have to help combat sag since the whole thing will probably be pretty heavy.

 

Yeah i'll be using a 240mm AIO, when i had it on my custom loop, it was running a 360 + 240mm and including a hot 5820K (which i got rid of because of the issues with the x99 platform) my gpu topped out at 54c after running furmark/kombustor + prime95 for extended times, my main concern was tube length, as i've read some have longer tubes than others, which may be an issue since it's not exactly the shortest length from the gpu core to the front of the case lol.

 

Anyone know any AIOs with nice long tubes? The Thermaltake water 3.0 is borderline too short (that's what's cooling my cpu, but i laid it out alongside the gpu before i fitted and it's marginal.. saying that it's stretching it a bit for that cpu run lol