Water cooling help

[OrionMurchant]

I’m trying to water cool my entire rig (first time ever) I want to cool both my gpu and cpu and really need some help I’ve watched videos explaining everything but can’t find any that give me a basic parts list I can trust to get my whole rig set up. I will need a water block for the gpu since it is currently air cooled. Thank you for the help.
 

 

Budget (including currency): $500 US dollars

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077, Overwatch 2, Elden Ring, most souls games. Recording. And minor video editing.

Other details Msi Meg ace max x570 AM4, amd ryzen 5950x 16 core, 4x 16gb ram at 3200, nvme storage x4, Seasonic - FOCUS GX-1000, 1000W 80+ Gold PSU, Full-Modular, Fan Control in Fanless, Silent, Cooling Mode, lian li Galahad AIO 360, RedDevil 6900xt non ultimate. Lian li 011 D XL, lian li gpu mount and riser strip, Fans are lian li sl120 x9 (3 exhaust on top with AIO radiator, 3 on bottom as intake and 3 on side as intake

 

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, OrionMurchant said:

I’m trying to water cool my entire rig (first time ever) I want to cool both my gpu and cpu and really need some help I’ve watched videos explaining everything but can’t find any that give me a basic parts list I can trust to get my whole rig set up. I will need a water block for the gpu since it is currently air cooled. Thank you for the help.
 

 

Budget (including currency): $500 US dollars

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cyberpunk 2077, Overwatch 2, Elden Ring, most souls games. Recording. And minor video editing.

Other details Msi Meg ace max x570 AM4, amd ryzen 5950x 16 core, 4x 16gb ram at 3200, nvme storage x4, Seasonic - FOCUS GX-1000, 1000W 80+ Gold PSU, Full-Modular, Fan Control in Fanless, Silent, Cooling Mode, lian li Galahad AIO 360, RedDevil 6900xt non ultimate. Lian li 011 D XL, lian li gpu mount and riser strip, Fans are lian li sl120 x9 (3 exhaust on top with AIO radiator, 3 on bottom as intake and 3 on side as intake

 

Watercooling for GPUs has changed a lot over time.

in which I ramble about how it has changed:

Spoiler

 It used to be that hybrid coolers and block coolers had entirely different names for example. The concept of a reference card (a card that is more or less identical to the brand one and can take has largely disappeared.  Now there are cards actually designed and sold as water cooled cards.  One of the big advantages of block coolers is the card can be single slot. Something that may not matter to you.  There also used to be higher end AIOs that could attach to both the cpu and gpu making a single loop.  Haven’t seen one of those in a while. There ARE non-refererance “full coverage”(what they used to be called) gpu water blocks.

 The key is either picking a card that comes with a block attached, or making sure that the card you get has an AVAILABLE water block that fits it. And add the cost of the two to get the final cost of the card.  Also don’t put the now redundant air cooling shroud up on eBay.  When you sell the thing it’s real unlikely that a random person will have a watercooling rig they want to put it in.  You’ll need to put the air cooler back on to sell it.  

 

more history:

Spoiler

Any video card used to be able to do hybrid though. People used to just use cpu blocks for video cards.  I don’t even know if that is still possible.  To do it one put finned heat sinks on everything that wasn’t the gpu but that might not cut it anymore.  Cards are hotter now. cards can put out multiple times as much heat as CPUs these days though (whereas once upon a time it was reversed)

If one is feeling especially DIY the cheapass way to go could to be to use a really big AIO for the whole thing. 
Mad scientist modding:

Spoiler

You’d need a big AIO you could mod the hoses on.  That’s completely impossible for some designs.  The pump also needs to be powerful.
Then you just slot the video card block into the loop and fill up the rest of the now larger loop with PG (which is cheap. It’s sold in gallon jugs as a cattle laxitive) by unscrewing the cold plate and just pouring it in up to the very top