Waterblock.

Grenademadness · April 10, 2018

Good morning everyone! I was in the works to finally watercool my setup. I have a 1080 from EVGA SC edition and an i7 6700k. I currently use a corsair water cooler for the processor which keeps temperatures really low even while I'm rendering things or very intense operations. LTT has made so many videos of water cooling but I think I'm ready to try it out. Questions I have include does it matter what waterblock I get for my 1080? How about my 6700k. My motherboard is the Asus maximus 8 extreme. Stored In a corsair 750d obsidian series case. My tubing will be orange hopefully and I also need to basically know what pump and fittings to get for the system... any and all help is appreciated!!!

Blackie Sheen · April 10, 2018

You need to choose a waterblock that is compatible with your graphics card. But I just checked using thye ek configurator and the EVGA SC 1080 has a reference pcb design so you can choose any block made for the Founders Editiion card(aka FE or Reference card). Doesnt need to be EK btw. I just used their configurator to see if the card had a ref design or not

Grenademadness · April 10, 2018

11 minutes ago, Blackie Sheen said:

You need to choose a waterblock that is compatible with your graphics card. But I just checked using thye ek configurator and the EVGA SC 1080 has a reference pcb design so you can choose any block made for the Founders Editiion card(aka FE or Reference card). Doesnt need to be EK btw. I just used their configurator to see if the card had a ref design or not

Awesome! What about water pumps and fittings?

Blackie Sheen · April 10, 2018

These are universal. They usually all use g 1/4 thread.

For fittings, it depends if they are for soft or hard tubing but usually they are separated on the manufacturers websites so its nearly impossible to mistake them for one another

AngryBeaver · April 10, 2018

2 hours ago, Grenademadness said:

Awesome! What about water pumps and fittings?

Pump wise I would go with either a DDC pump or a D5 pump. Looking at what you are cooling a d5 would probably be your best bet. If you can might consider getting a pump/res combo unit to save some space and cut down on the fittings you need.

When it comes to fittings they will pretty much all be g 1/4", but you will need to decide on what size tubing and whether your want hard or soft tubing. Then just make sure your fittings match up.

For your GPU you will want a waterblock that fits a 1080 Reference card.

Cpu wise anything that fits the 115x socket. Do a little research on the CPU block as some are much worse than others. The Raystorm, supremacy evo, and alphacool blocks are all pretty good.