Cheap and easy water cooling for gpu?

Fox5

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Jan 31, 2005
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I just got a gtx 560 for my HTPC. Unfortunately, it butts up against the x-fi I just got (darn pci-e 1x being next to 16x), so it runs very loud and very hot. Water cooling is getting relatively affordable for cpu, is the same true for gpu? I don't need performance that beats high end air cooling, just something that can reroute the heat away from the small enclosed area and do so fairly quietly. IE, if I could just get a radiator located in one of the unused PCI slots or externally.
 

thilanliyan

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Cheap and easy shouldn't be words used with watercooling. If you're going to do it, do it right. If you're talking something like the Corsair H50, I have seen something like that for a GPU but not sure if you can buy it separately.

I once bought a "kit" made by Gigabyte and the CPU waterblock top ended up cracking and leaking onto my video card. Thankfully it didn't short anything out. After that I did not cheap out and bought proper components and no problems now going on 2+ years. You're still going to have to spend a little more than $100 to get decent components IMO.