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Non-Reference 280X Waterblock

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I have a MSI R9 280X Gaming 3G Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 (V277-057R) that I have been using for mining and I want to put it in a gaming pc. It's quite loud and I want to watercool it. The problem is that is has a non-reference PCB. I would like to know if there is any full cover block for this card. I looked on EK's cooling configurator and they don't have a waterblock for it. Thanks in advance!

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I have a MSI R9 280X Gaming 3G Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 (V277-057R) that I have been using for mining and I want to put it in a gaming pc. It's quite loud and I want to watercool it. The problem is that is has a non-reference PCB. I would like to know if there is any full cover block for this card. I looked on EK's cooling configurator and they don't have a waterblock for it. Thanks in advance!

Have you considered the Kraken G10? If it's not massively non-reference like a Lightning card it should work

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Yeah,  I could do that if there aren't any full cover blocks.

 

The G10 will bring the temps of your memory and vrm up a lot, only the actual gpu will be cooler. This is fine in some cases, like mining. But in HD gaming where there are thousands of frames being loaded on and off of the memory, you might not want to use the G10.

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The G10 will bring the temps of your memory and vrm up a lot, only the actual gpu will be cooler. This is fine in some cases, like mining. But in HD gaming where there are thousands of frames being loaded on and off of the memory, you might not want to use the G10.

Actually when mining using the scrypt algorithm the memory is very heavily used.

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