Building a custom AIO ?

hazeyez · August 5, 2018

I've been looking into AIO's specifically for liquid cooling my GPU, however I am a fan (no pun intended) of max air flow as well. I am worried that most AIO's will restrict airflow significantly, do they?

As such, I would like an AIO with a radiator that has about 16 FPI. The main issue is that many AIO's do not list their FPI (Fins per Inch) in their specs.

I have found on EKWB, they do list specs of their radiators, and they have a series that has low FPI for what I need.

The issue becomes then - there isn't exactly any (or any that I can find) pump/res combo units which come with AIO's that are sold separately for this purpose.

I'm left to wonder, do I just need to buy a full AIO for this piece specifically, costing upwards of $100, then have to spend another $100 -/+ on the radiator I want to use?

OR should I just stop playing games because all of this is pointless, and just install a custom loop?

The issue there is obviously I wanted to do this cheaply, not to mention I have a gtx 1060 - I just wanted a simple solution to get lower temps under loan AND not restrict airflow as my CPU will remain heatsinked.