Air cooled --> Liquid Cooled.

[NLamki]

Need some advice, I have a Zotac 3070 twin edge OC. I'm not exactly happy with the cooling performance and was considering water cooling it. Any pro tips before I do so?
Water block I found. (I haven't found any water block from a reputable manufacturer.) Would this product be good? 

[Tan3l6]

I'd sell the card and buy better.

But then again I'm too lazy for a custom water cooling.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

If you want better cooling just ziptie an aio to the gpu, custom loop is mostly just a waste of money for aesthetics unless you build a beefy one with beefy rads or boatloads of rads

 

Though youd also need to strap a fan to cool the other parts of the gpu like vrms and vram

[RONOTHAN##]

Water cooling a 70 series card isn't usually a good option, since doing a proper custom loop will cost at least $300, usually a bit more. For that price you could flip your 3070 on eBay and buy a 3070 Ti with a better cooler or maybe even a 3080 with a better cooler. That will perform better, cooling performance would be only slightly worse, and acoustics will be about the same as a custom loop if you lower the performance down to hit the same levels. 

[bmx6454]

what are the temps you are getting? what case are you using? i had the same card for a little over a year, had surprisingly good temps, except for the hotspot occasionally.

[Dogzilla07]

@NLamkiYou can always zip-tie fan directly to the heatsink (after removing the stock fans and plastic shroud). 92mm would fit perfectly, but probably not too much of an improved temp, that's more a solution used for silence. 120mm should be able to fit as well, and that might be enough.

 

But you have to get some decent fans (of cheaper, at least Arctic F9 PST for 92mm, or Arctic P12 PST CO for 120mm. If you're not a budget, then Noctua NF-A9 would be the best 92mm option.

 

And just run them to a motherboard header and run at the highest fixed speed you can tolerate noise-wise. PST just means integrated splitter for connecting power so less clutter and easier to connect, and CO is just ball-bearing for horizontal application.

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

On 3/13/2022 at 12:26 PM, NLamki said:

Need some advice, I have a Zotac 3070 twin edge OC. I'm not exactly happy with the cooling performance and was considering water cooling it. Any pro tips before I do so?
Water block I found. (I haven't found any water block from a reputable manufacturer.) Would this product be good? 

I wouldn't watercool anything lower than a x80 sku. I used to have a watercooled 9900k 2080ti rig. It was neat but a lot of work. Not worth it in my opinion