This might sound dumb/ werid. But i hear some people have been able to use closed loop pre-built water cooling products (like the corsair h60 or other corsair water coolers) on their gpu after removing the fan on it. I have never been that interested in doing my own custom loop, but if i can really just throw another h60 into my case that would be great. Is this a good idea? or is it a terrible idea? any comments are appreciated.
If you can find a way to mount it it should work fine. Just go ahead and measure the distance between the mounting holes on the back of the card. If any of the included mounting brackets fits it then you just need to not use any of the included standoffs and just be really careful to apply the same amount of even pressure on all the screws and not crush the GPU. But you can't really use the standoffs because those are designed for the height of the CPU off the motherboard and includes the height of the socket, which your GPU doesn't have. But once you've done that it ought to work just fine. Although you'll still need to power everything and find a spot in your case for it. Since the fan connector on your GPU isn't usually a standard size, you will probably want to download Speedfan and set up one of your motherboard fan headers to adjust to a fan curve defined by your GPU so that the fan on the radiator will ramp up as it is needed.
Awesome! Thanks
Here is an example of a hybrid water and air cooling solution for GPUs. Not sure if this is the idea you are looking for but perhaps it is a starting poing.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186067
http://www.corsair.com/media/cms/Blog/h70_gpu/DSC_0054.jpg
This person custom made their own mounting bracket to make the H70 fit onto theirs. Apparently a sheet of 16 guage steel works just fine. They just had some crazy high quality on their cuts because after paint, it's difficult to tell apart from the original.
hi guys. this is prolly the best bang for the buck, cheaper than any 3rd party heatsink+fan you could throw on it.
i threw on corsair h55's using zipties, then threw on copper heatsinks on all the necessary chips and regulators. i have a 80mm fan sitting on top of the cards to move air through the copper heatsinks. there's a really good thread about it just search "aka the mod" on google and you'll find it.
my gtx560 never gets higher than 53c while benching and these cards are ment to get as hot as 99c so there's alot of overclock thermal headroom there.also dual fan'n the 120mm rads with about 59cfm of flow.
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just be careful with this option. The videocards needs cooling on not only the GPU core, but also the memory and other modules. if you only cool the core the rest of your card might burn up.