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Is it okay for liquid cooling tubing to be touching GPU heatpipe?

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I recently built a new computer and made the dumbest mistake of choosing a CPU cooler that was not "supported" by my case. So far my solution is to just lay the radiator on the bottom of the case and it seems to be working out fairly well. However the only problem is that the tubing is coming into slight contact with the GPU heatpipe.

 

How big of a concern is this? The only google result I could find on Tomshard said it wasn't anything to worry about but better safe than sorry. If it makes any difference the CPU cooler is the Seidon 240m. 

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that answer is basically right

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Reach in, gently touch the pipe with your finger, if it burns you, or feels really hot, then probably not good. If just warm to the touch, should be fine. I doubt the heat pipe be all that hot...

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Reach in, gently touch the pipe with your finger, if it burns you, or feels really hot, then probably not good. If just warm to the touch, should be fine. I doubt the heat pipe be all that hot...

It was fairly hot. Not enough to burn or anything but not really comfortable to touch. Best comparison I can think of is that it felt like a laptop powerbrick after it's been under a pillow for a minute or two. 

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One thing you could do, maybe stick a little piece of foam or something in between...

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You could always use some fishing line or something to pull the tube away a bit.

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Reach in, gently touch the pipe with your finger, if it burns you, or feels really hot, then probably not good. If just warm to the touch, should be fine. I doubt the heat pipe be all that hot...

My 280x heatpipe was hitting 60-70C. I have no doubt the tubing would have been affected after a while. I just put a few things in between as a temporary fix.

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