XSPC Waterblocks

[VulsaviiK]

Hey guys, after I buy my news parts I'm looking into watercooling a pair of GTX 770s and an i7-4770k with XSPC waterblocks. Has anyone had any experience with them, and how do they compare to other brands (Aside from looking insanely good). If XSPC suck, what do you guys recommend?

[Ghost]

XSPC blocks are perfectly fine. Some people have had issues in the past of the LEDs dieing/fading but you can buy replacements quite easily.

[Leonard]

Hey guys, after I buy my news parts I'm looking into watercooling a pair of GTX 770s and an i7-4770k with XSPC waterblocks. Has anyone had any experience with them, and how do they compare to other brands (Aside from looking insanely good). If XSPC suck, what do you guys recommend?

The XSPC waterblocks are very good but as @Ghost has pointed out the LEDs that light up the acrylic on the blocks burn out and yes you can buy replacements for them as well as run your own. I have a raystorm waterblock and a EK supremacy and they both cool the same. I use the XSPC block because i can light it up. One bad thing about the XSPC waterblock though is the tension bracket installation method. It is quiet tricky to get the water block on and not have the back plate fall off while installing, i myself use a piece of 3m mounting tape to hold the bracket on while i install the raystorm. 

[VulsaviiK]

That's fine, I'm kind of expecting to have to throw the LEDs out anyway. Not  100% sure what colours I want to run overall. Having anything not green means I have to dismantle my Razer Blackwidow, having anything not blue means pulling the LED strip that comes in the Phanteks Enthoo Primo I have out. So decisions, decisions...

[BrightCandle]

I had an XSPC CPU waterblock and I found mounting it very inconsistent. Took me 7 fittings before it gave me a good contact and temperature and I had to add a backplate to it to improve the contact on the 7th attempt. Once I had it fitted it performed well but its stuck with me how bad that was compared to my Heatkiller which has mounted perfectly everytime. The HK 3.0 is quite a lot cooler than that initial XSPC block but I will admit I haven't followed their more recent blocks or tried them.  Much of their other water kit is OK, its never the best but its normal good and cheap.

[Whaler_99]

I have the raystorm and the full Razer block and back plate for the 780. For me, they were all simply to mount. As said, something about XSPC LED's are crap, they all fade fast, even replacements. But the holes are a standard size, depending on what, 3mm or 5mm, so you can get better after market ones.

[KylSp]

I have the raystorm and the full Razer block and back plate for the 780. For me, they were all simply to mount. As said, something about XSPC LED's are crap, they all fade fast, even replacements. But the holes are a standard size, depending on what, 3mm or 5mm, so you can get better after market ones.

The LED's they carry are cheap junk, that's the explanation.

[Joshua Ondangan]

xspc raystorm I have but not yet installed but hey those lights can be replaced, just grab a better one when it dies out.

[VulsaviiK]

Blue doesn't fit with my scheme anyways, so I was planning to throw the leds away straight out of the box. I'm thinking purple and yellow. (I'm kind of stuck with yellow, screw you MSI)

 

Actually my housemate asked as soon as I got the case if I was going to open it up and mod the leds, I said I didn't want to open it up. Guess I caved on that pretty quickly haha. I've done a little bit more reading and they seem to do decently in benchmarks, their RX radiators seemed to do a lot better than I thought they would which was surprising