Corsair 250D Watercooling

adelfhetler · February 16, 2015

I'm going to be using the corsair h100i cooler for my CPU, will i able able to stick a 120mm corsair AIO cooler in the front to watercool my gpu(either gtx 960 or r9 280 still deciding) using the corsair/nzxt gpu bracket?

mapegl · February 16, 2015

Yes It has been done!

Although i don't see the great benefit in cooling a GTX 960 with water. It is already verry cool running and you will probably never hit a thermal barrier when overclocking, but just chip limitations. And since it runs so cool, it is usually already VERY quiet. Remember that an AIO-cooler will always have its pump running and a fan, therefore not necessarily being quieter.

For a 280 maybe, but getting a good version of the 280 is enough for a quiet system. And considering the cost of the Kraken and an AIO, you could almost stretch for a 290 or 970 and have MUCH better performance. Watercooling will make almost no difference there.