Upgrade cooler

[DutchTexan]

Has anyone ever upgraded a gpu cooler? As in, is liquid cooling the only option for more efficient cooling?

[Billy_Mays]

There's an after market air cooler but it's a tri fan setup so you have to have room for it but depends on your graphics card and water cooling is expensive but rewarding 

[rn8686]

There are air coolers (Arctic make some), but compatibility depends on the PCB design (If its custom or reference). 

 

Edit: Could just buy a AIO and Kraken G10, dont need a custom loop to have water cooling.  

[DutchTexan]

Just now, rn8686 said:

There are air coolers (Arctic make some), but compatibility depends on the PCB design (If its custom or reference). 

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

There's an after market air cooler but it's a tri fan setup so you have to have room for it but depends on your graphics card and water cooling is expensive but rewarding 

You're talking about this? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V3R95428

 

[rn8686]

Just now, DutchTexan said:

You're talking about this? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V3R95428

 

Yes (They make a few other designs I think also). 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, DutchTexan said:

You're talking about this? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V3R95428

 

yeah that's the one most people suggests

[DutchTexan]

I took the card apart my 1080 earlier and plopped some new Arctic MX-4 thermal paste on and it didn't make much of a difference, if at all  

[Guest]

Just now, DutchTexan said:

I took the card apart my 1080 earlier and plopped some new Arctic MX-4 thermal paste on and it didn't make much of a difference, if at all  

Which 1080

What was maxiumum temps?

 

[DutchTexan]

3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Which 1080

What was maxiumum temps?

 

The first 1080 ftw. Back when there was the vrm cooling issue EVGA sent me a little strip of heat spreaders thermal pads or whatever and I put them on, but I've just always been unhappy with how the card cools. With the fans pinned at 100% the temps can still climb past 75c. It's been like this for almost a year. I guess I will have to build a custom loop to be satisfied. I;m worried that arctic cooler won't fit.

[Colin Donoghue]

you could get a aio bracket from nzxt and a cheap 120 or 240 mm aio 

[Guest]

Just now, DutchTexan said:

The first 1080 ftw. Back when there was the vrm cooling issue EVGA sent me a little strip of heat spreaders thermal pads or whatever and I put them on, but I've just always been unhappy with how the card cools. With the fans pinned at 100% the temps can still climb past 75c. It's been like this for almost a year. I guess I will have to build a custom loop to be satisfied. I;m worried that arctic cooler won't fit.

it should fit, maybe a RMA?

[DutchTexan]

3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

it should fit, maybe a RMA?

Well, I have folded it quite a bit and I picked up mining a few weeks ago. I don't have any issues, I just hate that the card gets close to 80 degrees. When gaming the card has always been high 60's aswell with an aggressive fan curve. I bought a 6GB 1060 and that card pinned at 100 usage stays under 60c no problem with like 60% fan. Relative to the 1080, it feels like the 1060 fans move twice as much air.

[DutchTexan]

5 minutes ago, Colin Donoghue said:

you could get a aio bracket from nzxt and a cheap 120 or 240 mm aio 

That's a thing? Where?

[DutchTexan]

6 minutes ago, Colin Donoghue said:

you could get a aio bracket from nzxt and a cheap 120 or 240 mm aio 

Something like this? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA59T4BB6372&cm_re=gpu_cooling-_-9SIA59T4BB6372-_-Product

[Colin Donoghue]

3 minutes ago, DutchTexan said:

Something like this? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA59T4BB6372&cm_re=gpu_cooling-_-9SIA59T4BB6372-_-Product

that would work but I was talking about something like this https://www.amazon.com/NZXT-Kraken-RL-KRG10-B1-Bracket-Black/dp/B00ITTFNW4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500437490&sr=8-1&keywords=nzxt%2Bbracket&th=1

 

[Guest]

tbh if u spend that much on a cooler might as well sell it and then get a better cooling card like Gaming X or Asus Strix or AMP Extreme

[Billy_Mays]

39 minutes ago, DutchTexan said:

You're talking about this? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V3R95428

 

Yep and Tech Yes City loves them

[DutchTexan]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Yep and Tech Yes City loves them

I'm thinking about the ~$33 nzxt bracket and a 280mm $140 H115i vs building a custom loop for around $400

[Phoenix Fieryn]

2 hours ago, DutchTexan said:

With the fans pinned at 100% the temps can still climb past 75c

Whoah whoah whoah that's not right. My ASUS Strix 1080s goes down to 54C when fans are 100%. And they are in SLI.

 

1 hour ago, DutchTexan said:

I'm thinking about the ~$33 nzxt bracket and a 280mm $140 H115i

You could save $40 and go for the regular H100i v2, it shouldn't make much of a difference.

[DutchTexan]

14 hours ago, Phoenix Fieryn said:

Whoah whoah whoah that's not right. My ASUS Strix 1080s goes down to 54C when fans are 100%. And they are in SLI.

 

You could save $40 and go for the regular H100i v2, it shouldn't make much of a difference.

It has always been like this. I remember playing BF1 3 days before public release and the card was over 65 degrees C pretty often with a normal fan curve. It could be the fact that I live near the gulf coast. RH inside every building is 30%-45%, 99% humidity outside virtually all year. Ambient temperatures are 76-78F.

 

The H100iv2 is a better deal, but it's not a 280 rad. I have 2 140mm static pressure noctua fans I want to use on the rad. I think I will go with a thermaltake 280mm AIO, but have not decided. I'm not finding last gen 280 rads that much cheaper.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071R2P8M3/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

 

Compatible coolers with the bracket:

Kraken X60, Kraken X40 Corsair : H105, H110, H90, H75, H55 , H50 Antec : KUHLER H2O 920V4, KUHLER H2O 620V4, KUHLER H2O 920, KUHLER H2O 620 Thermaltake : Water 3.0 Extreme, Water 3.0 Pro, Water 3.0 Performer, Water 2.0 Extreme, Water 2.0 Pro, Water 2.0 Performer Zalman : LQ-320, LQ-315, LQ-310

 

(but I am sure as long as they look similar then they will fit, becasue it's not up to date. For example the kraken X61 and x62 fit)