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Advice using an AIO on my GPU

Joshyy
By Joshyy
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So I have an R9-290, it's loud. Very loud, so I want to Water-cool it. Now at this current moment my current plan is as such:

 

I have a H20 620 and can acquire a H100 for about £40 

 

My plan is to put the H20 620 on the R9-290 (Using the Kraken G10) and mount it in the front of my case, which means I will have to drop the fans down to 1, instead of 2.

Then I would place the H100 in the top of the case and cool the CPU with that.

 

A few questions:

Would the H20 620 be able to cool the R9-290 adequately? 

Is there a better alternative than doing this? (My budget is quite limited)

 

 

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yes, should be more than enough... still better and quieter than stock cooling.

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Isn't the G10 a closed loop

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Isn't the G10 a closed loop

I guess you could say that, it is a mount for Asiteck aio coolers to mount to a GPU
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I don't see why it wouldn't be. I have a 120mm cooler master aio cooler on a 7870 XT and have my GPU running at 1100MHz (overclocked form 950) and my machine doesn't get any louder under a gaming load. And I get around 70-75 celcius depending on room temperature and the fan only runs around 1000rpm's, which is just under 40% fan speed. You may need heat sinks for your ram and an adapter to plug a 120mm pwm fan into the pwm header on the GPU, unless something like NZXT's adapter already includes all of that. After it is all sorted out then It will do very well.

My rig: 2600k(4.2 GHz) w/ Cooler Master hyper 212+, Gigabyte Z68-UD3H-B3, Powercolor 7870 xt(1100/1500) w/AIO mod,

8GB DDR3 1600, 120GB Kingston HyperX 3K SSD, 1TB Seagate, Antec earthwatts 430, NZXT H2

Verified max overclock, just for kicks: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2609399

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Good to hear, I will be ordering the stuff for it soon (There seems to be a huge wait for the G10, so I have a wait ahead of me )

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790k @ 4.7 1.3v  with a Corsair H80 w/Dual SP120s - Motherboard: MSI Z97 gaming 5 - RAM: 4x4 G.Skill Ripjaws X @ 1600 - GPU: Dual PowerColour R9 290- SSD: Samsung NVME SM951 256GB-- PSU: Corsair RM 1000  - Case: NZXT H440 Black/red - Keyboard: Coolermaster CM storm Quickfire TK, Cherry MX blues - Mouse: Logitech G502 - Heaphones: Beyerdynamic DT 770 - Monitors: 3x VE248H Eyefinity 1080P -  Phone: iPhone 6S Plus               Please post your specifications in your post, signature or even better, system page on your profile!

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