Adding Water Cooled GPU

[l_zheng101]

Hey guys, my MSI RTX 3080 Sea Hawk came in yesterday (Newegg Shuffle finally hooked me up). In case you didn't know, it's a water cooled card. I was wondering where in the case would be the best place to mount the radiator (Fractal Define 7 case). It appears the front of the case is the only viable option since my CPU cooler will not allow me to mount the radiator to the top of the case. Is the front of the case a common place for this kind of GPU installation?

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

6 minutes ago, l_zheng101 said:

Hey guys, my MSI RTX 3080 Sea Hawk came in yesterday (Newegg Shuffle finally hooked me up). In case you didn't know, it's a water cooled card. I was wondering where in the case would be the best place to mount the radiator (Fractal Define 7 case). It appears the front of the case is the only viable option since my CPU cooler will not allow me to mount the radiator to the top of the case. Is the front of the case a common place for this kind of GPU installation?

 

I guess you should just stick a 360 rad on the front and only watercool the gpu for overclocking (cpu watercooling is useless unless you are overclocking or want silence, and cpu overclocking is pointless nowadays)

 

And i think front mounting will work fine though top exhaust is preffered instead of front intake in terms of rad placement