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Was fortunate enough to score an XFX RX6800xt 319 Merc card for my build. The new hottness is up and running with an open loop hard line watercooling setup ( my first go so the bends while aren't collapsed they aren't great ) I do want to eventually reinstall the hard lines and would love to add a waterblock on the graphics card as my Coolermaster 700M comes with a riser and would love to have something visible than the black fans 

Sorry I am waffling on...

I want to get the waterblock. but the only ones I know of that are made to fit are from Alphacool - linked below
https://www.au.aquatuning.com/water-cooling/gpu-water-blocks/gpu-full-cover/fullsize/28713/eisblock-aurora-acryl-gpx-a-radeon-rx-6800xt/6900xt-merc-319-with-backplate?c=7187

And a company called Byski ( I've never heard of them TBH ) - 

https://www.bykski.us/products/bykski-full-coverage-gpu-water-block-and-backplate-for-xfx-rx-6800-6900-xt-overseas-edition-n-xf6900xt-x

My question is. Is the Byski brand worth spending money on to water cool a $1800AUD card or should I look for a seller of the Alphacool one that will not require my first born as a sacrifice to cover shipping ( its really prohibitively expensive at over $100AUD )

Or can anyone suggest a viable alternative other than just air-cool it.  Also worth noting if not already figured out. I am in Australia and the major sellers of PC bits here don't stock what I need or really deal with Alphacool much if at all.

Thanks you madlads!

P.S. I've added a photo of my setup. 
Coolermaster 700M 

Thermaltake Toughpower Grand Sync RGB Gold 850W Power Supply
AMD Ryzen 9 5900x
Kingston HyperX Predator RGB 16GB (2x8GB) 4000MHz CL19 DDR4
XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster MERC 319 16GB GDDR6

Samsung 970 EVO NVMe SSD 1TB
All EKWB liquid cooling loop including the 420mm Rad ( I actually have 2 but couldn't work out how to fit the 2nd one )
7 x BlackNoise NB e-loop RGB 140mm fans, 3 front 3 top and 1 back.

Its technically a WIP still as I have a couple more things I need to do to get it where I want to. 

Cheers
Neph

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I had a Byski waterblock on my 1080ti and never had issues with it. Cooled it quite well. Not the more well known brand but seem to make decent products. Unfortunately my Phanteks CPU waterblock leaked all over my 1080ti and killed it. :( YMMV

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8 hours ago, Zomeguy said:

I had a Byski waterblock on my 1080ti and never had issues with it. Cooled it quite well. Not the more well known brand but seem to make decent products. Unfortunately my Phanteks CPU waterblock leaked all over my 1080ti and killed it. 😞 YMMV

Oh no, that would be horrible. You have my condolences on the 1080ti.

Also thanks for the comment about Byski. will definitely look into it... 

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  • 1 month later...

Did you find a suitable waterblock?

I just bought the same model as yours, with the intent to buy a waterblock for it. I verified that the PCB was just like the Black Gaming edition from the pictures on TechPowerUp GPU database. When I got home I noticed that the screw holes on the back didn't line up. Turns out the pictures on TechPowerUp are wrong. DANG!

At launch I ordered a Powercolor 6800XT Red Dragon with expectations for a water block to show up. It hasn't!

So now I have two 6800XT that I can't watercool. ¤/%/##/¤%/#¤%&/¤%!!!!!

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