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Gigabyte G1 gaming GTX 970 EKWB WF3 waterblock.

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I've just fitted an EKWB WF3 waterblock to a Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970. Temps are 28 to 30C idle. Gaming on air was 70C. Now 38C on water. It's a nice quality block, as is usual from EKWB. :) Fitting was easy enough. I didn't buy a backplate. I just put some ramsinks on the ram and directed a slow fan onto them. I haven't pushed this card under water yet. But I was happy with its' performance on air. I just watercool for silence, running it on the same loop as my 3770 @ 4.2ghz. Passive, no fans unless gaming hard.

 

I also made a movie using the removed fan shroud as a backplate cooler.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KIpUhRx-Bc

 

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Gaming on air was 70C

I want to know what your ambients are and in what case because my 970 never breaks 60C on air

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I'd probably go with water cooling as well if it was possible to split the outputs between different slots.

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Makes me sad to see another Windforce without that beautiful Windforce logo. ._.

Anyway, well done.! :)

 

 

 

 

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It's around 24C here in my room right now, the heating's on constantly here in the UK as the outside temps have been sub zero for a few days. The extra 10 degrees could be due to many factors I suppose. Mine was 70C after over an hour of gaming with the case closed and the warm air from the GPU ejecting into it and not directly out of it.

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doesn't look as nice without the back plate :(

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My PC is a metre behind me, on the floor, in between 2 sticks of furniture. Hoses run out of the back, 2 metres to 2 x 360 thermochill radiators, under a window. It's a better remote cooling station than some folks 'whole room cooling' setups. :)

 

I'm not able to see into the case unless I move it out anyhow. So, I never saw the lights on the aircooler and it's not my thing tbh. :) I bought the G1 for it's other abilities and I watercool for silence. Although, the reduced temps might bring some longevity too.

 

To answer another question above, I just ran MSI kombustor GPU Burn in test for 5 minutes and the peak temp was 38C with the fans on the radiators on. Idle was 24C. It's only to be expected that waterblocks bring this luxury.

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This screenshot shows the temps of the GPU and, in the green box, the maximum, minimum and average fan rpm of the windforce x3 fans, now being used as a backplate. The minimum speed is 987 rpm as I've modded the bios to slow the fans down from 1500 rpm on the slowest and incorrect 34% setting that comes as stock with these G1 cards.

 

You can see from the max rpm of 1873 that the fans still react to temperature rises in the card and spin faster to cool the memory.

 

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I've just fitted an EKWB WF3 waterblock to a Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970. Temps are 28 to 30C idle. Gaming on air was 70C. Now 38C on water. It's a nice quality block, as is usual from EKWB. :) Fitting was easy enough. I didn't buy a backplate. I just put some ramsinks on the ram and directed a slow fan onto them. I haven't pushed this card under water yet. But I was happy with its' performance on air. I just watercool for silence, running it on the same loop as my 3770 @ 4.2ghz. Passive, no fans unless gaming hard.

How your load temps so low.. i have a loop with MSi 970 (ek block) 360mm rad, 240mm rad and cpu (fans run at 1200 under load) and my temps are\

Idl2 28 right now and after a game for 30min load is 48

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How your load temps so low.. i have a loop with MSi 970 (ek block) 360mm rad, 240mm rad and cpu (fans run at 1200 under load) and my temps are\

Idl2 28 right now and after a game for 30min load is 48

 

My max temp ever hit 47c as I recall. It's not so different from yours really. My loop has 2 x 360's, also not so different. Did you use the EK thermal paste? Is there plenty of good airflow in your case?

 

Anyway, it's still way better than air. :)

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My max temp ever hit 47c as I recall. It's not so different from yours really. My loop has 2 x 360's, also not so different. Did you use the EK thermal paste? Is there plenty of good airflow in your case?

 

Anyway, it's still way better than air. :)

Used the paste and pads that came with the block, also have a backplate, pc is sitting on desk with no case at the moment.

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Maybe it's this. :)

 

Used the paste and pads that came with the block, also have a backplate, pc is sitting on desk with no case at the moment.

 

Out of interest, do you have some fans blowing over the backplate, ram, mobo?

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Maybe it's this. :)

 

 

Out of interest, do you have some fans blowing over the backplate, ram, mobo?

It was all in an H440, but i took it out as the power button doesnt work, so want to send it back and to get fixed.

Also load temps where 55-60 in there with 360mm front as intake and 240mm top and intake (also tried outtake).

Temps are a lot better that its not in the case.

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It was all in an H440, but i took it out as the power button doesnt work, so want to send it back and to get fixed.

Also load temps where 55-60 in there with 360mm front as intake and 240mm top and intake (also tried outtake).

Temps are a lot better that its not in the case.

 

My two rads are 6 feet away under a window. The heat, when I bother to have the fans on (which is hardly ever, unless benching or heavily gaming), gets dumped out there. Otherwise it's just convection cooled. Hence the 47c temp. My loop is cpu>gpu>rads x 2 ziptied together using 3 120mm fans for both>res>pump.

 

EDIT:- Also, I'm in the UK and you're in South Africa. :D

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I was kinda worried about my temps hitting 51c ingame, and this kinda made me feel a little bit better.

Ambient temps are a huge factor when it comes to watercooling, so that's my temps are kinda poop.
Although, I'm running 2 240mm rads. (CPU + GPU loop, nothing fancy there, loop order is res>pump>front rad>GPU>CPU>upper rad>back to res)
(still, a single 120mm rad could easily cool a 970, since its TDP is pretty low)


Also, temps here in Brazil are kinda retarded (at least where I live, winter is around 10c and summer close to 40c)
Aaaand, sorry for the thread revival, I think it's for a good reason. xD

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