difference between the 2 cards?

[werch]

I'm trying to make my own custom water loop, and it would be great to be able to include my graphics card in it. All the waterblocks for an Nvidia 770 say that they're only compatible with the reference design, but I have the MSI N770 TF 2 GD5/OC. Should I just completely skip over the GPU block and just have the CPU, or will the waterblock work anyways? Any response will be great

[Tea1337]

I believe there are no water blocks made for the card.

[Intervalence]

I believe there are no water blocks made for the card.

Yep. Also, the reference block will not fit on a non-reference card as the PCB layout is different.

[ForeseenVisionz]

since they have there own PCB most likely unless someone makes a specific block for that version of that card you out of luck . reference blocks will only go with reference cards that y everyone says get reference card if u wanna water cool because most manufacturers just make blocks for the reference cards.

[terrytek]

Why do you want this card? If you get reference, you have more compatibility with blocks.

[Hecknologist]

The only exception to reference block=reference card would be cards like the kingpin 780ti from evga, as they work with block manufacturers to get a proprietary block made for that specific card.

[zapsyou]

I dont know about the 770 but the msi 780 gaming will fit reference waterblocks.

The waterblocks for 680 lighting might fit, worth checking

[werch]

ah man okay is there any other solution besides the blocks that cover the entire card? i was looking at some of the ones that only cover the gpu, and i was thinking about getting a heatsink for the rest. could there be a problem with that?

the only other thing i could think would to be to trade mine with someone who has a reference card

[jscho]

Go on EK's Cooling Configurator, and you can see if they've made blocks for the non-reference cards. I know they've got one for the Asus cards, the MSI cards etc.

http://www.coolingconfigurator.com

[werch]

yeah its lookin like im just gonna have to trade with someone who has a reference card and isn't looking to watercool

but thanks everyone for your help

[Prophet of Entropy]

you can get universal GPU blocks that only cool the processor, and you can get some stick on heatsinks  or glue some on with thermal adhesieve  to cool the vrm and vram modules.  add a fan that's blowing on the heatsinks and you have no problem with cooling them. its the old school way of watercooling video cards.