Cooling CPU and GPU with custom AIO?

[donvitos]

Hello all. I feel as though my temps on my 980ti are a little too high for my liking. I have a corsair air 240 case and the evga sc+ ACX2.0 980ti as well as a corsair h100i to cool my CPU.

 

I was wondering, would it be possible to put a custom waterblock on my GPU, get a little more tubing, and then re-route all the tubing from  h100i radiator > cpu > gpu > back to radiator and essentially create an AIO cooler with both cpu and gpu? Would this be effective at all?

 

Current temps: ~75C on 980ti in games, overclocked to 1400mhz.

CPU temps: always under 50C when overclocked to 4.5ghz

 

 

 

I want to do a full custom loop in the future but currently dont have the time/money/knowledge to fully commit to it.

[pomaranc]

75C is not bad.

[Dimetime35c]

dude i have the same rad and gpu as you. my 980 runs at 64c max on air and my cpu at 4.6Ghz runs at 60c at max load. i would say do what im planing which is build your own custom loop. im gonna start with just a loop on the gpu as the h100i works just fine. then once i get the gpu loop working and im fully confident i know what im doing ill do the full thing. it makes more sense then putting 2 all in ones that take up WAY to much space inside your case.

[Ryoku]

Hello all. I feel as though my temps on my 980ti are a little too high for my liking. I have a corsair air 240 case and the evga sc+ ACX2.0 980ti as well as a corsair h100i to cool my CPU.

 

I was wondering, would it be possible to put a custom waterblock on my GPU, get a little more tubing, and then re-route all the tubing from  h100i radiator > cpu > gpu > back to radiator and essentially create an AIO cooler with both cpu and gpu? Would this be effective at all?

 

Current temps: ~75C on 980ti in games, overclocked to 1400mhz.

CPU temps: always under 50C when overclocked to 4.5ghz

 

 

 

I want to do a full custom loop in the future but currently dont have the time/money/knowledge to fully commit to it.

 

Not with the H100i. There are other AIOs that have stronger pumps that are designed to allow you to do this, but I wouldn't recommend it.  You would need to add a way to fill and drain your loop, and the pump isn't designed with extra components, fluid in mind.  you would probably be better off going with one of the starter water cooling kits from EK or one of the other water cooling companies.

[tomas710]

Hello all. I feel as though my temps on my 980ti are a little too high for my liking. I have a corsair air 240 case and the evga sc+ ACX2.0 980ti as well as a corsair h100i to cool my CPU.

 

I was wondering, would it be possible to put a custom waterblock on my GPU, get a little more tubing, and then re-route all the tubing from  h100i radiator > cpu > gpu > back to radiator and essentially create an AIO cooler with both cpu and gpu? Would this be effective at all?

 

Current temps: ~75C on 980ti in games, overclocked to 1400mhz.

CPU temps: always under 50C when overclocked to 4.5ghz

 

 

 

I want to do a full custom loop in the future but currently dont have the time/money/knowledge to fully commit to it.

I wouldn't open an AIO, the pump may not be powerful enough, you would have to refill with an ethylene/propylene glycol solution as well as add specific anticorrosives since corsair AIOs have a aluminium rad and a copper block. No idea how to refill it since they have no refilling ports. They are simply not made for that. If you wanna try something along those lines before you go with a custom loop, get a swiftech or fractal design expandable AIO, and you would need a bit more rad surface for a CPU and GPU, so maybe getting a fractal design kelvin series and a second rad, or the AIO from fractal that has a triple rad. I dont think it's worth it tho since your temps are fine, specially considering it's an OC 980ti, and the CPU's are fantastic. If you want to watercool your GPU, much simpler to buy a corsair HG10 or a kraken G10 along with a cheaper 120/140 mm single rad AIO, considering that a block for a 980ti is over 100 dollars this solution could be cheaper and much more effective