Water-cooling Graphics Card Only?

NSPEAR · November 1, 2019

Hi all this is my first post so please let me know if I am doing anything wrong,

I am looking at doing some custom water cooling in my pc, I'm not new to pc building however I am a complete newbie to custom water cooling, I noticed there is a beginners guide to water-cooling on this forum already that I intent to follow however I just had a question about component cooling.

I already have an AIO that cools my CPU and was intending to setup a custom water-cooling loop just for my GPU, my question is, is there any benefit to removing the AIO and connecting the CPU up to the custom loop as well or is it better to just cool the graphics card and keep the AIO?

My gut tells me separately means "its working on two loops so better cooling" but I'm no expert so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

My System Specs:

Motherboard: ROG STRIX x470 Gaming-F

CPU: Ryzen 5 2400G (I know its a little under powered for the GC)

Graphics: Asus Turbo RTX 2070 (blower style)

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000

PSU: Gigabyte 600W Bronze Rated

Case: Phanteks Eclipse P350

Storage: 512GB M.2 SSD + 1TB HDD + 2TB HDD

Cooling: Cooler Master Master Liquid Lite 240mm

chen57 · November 1, 2019

5 minutes ago, NSPEAR said:

My gut tells me separately means "its working on two loops so better cooling" but I'm no expert so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Better ? probably but not by a lot depending on the rads you have

6 minutes ago, NSPEAR said:

I already have an AIO that cools my CPU and was intending to setup a custom water-cooling loop just for my GPU, my question is, is there any benefit to removing the AIO and connecting the CPU up to the custom loop as well or is it better to just cool the graphics card and keep the AIO?

i think AIO+custom loop would look weird but it would cost a lot less than to include the cpu in the loop.