Video card liguid cooling - help

[BF04]

thermaltake Tide Water all in one liquid cooling.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835116017


I am very experienced in building pc's, however I am not in water cooling. I plan on water cooling my next system and the one thing I am really unsure about is the video card. Ive looked at the tide water and it seems exactly what I want. I was wondering does anyone here use one? Also the biggest question, how difficult is it to setup your video card for liquid cooling? I have never removed the heatsink and fans from a video card. Any recommendations or suggestions?

I plan on using the a CoolIT TEC Water cooling for the CPU.
http://www.xoxide.com/coolit-systems-tec-water-cooling.html

All in one design I like and I have to have it internal as the space is limited.


edit - I am not doing this for max OCing. I need the cooling as the location of the case makes air flow very little and water cooling seems the best way to keep temps down.

 

[Ridesy]

BF

Can't comment on the Thermaltake contraption itself, but there are good Dangerden and Swiftech VGA waterblocks available and in general the main decision is whether to cool the VGA RAM as well as the GPU or not.

I went with NOT and hence the MCW60 VGA blocks, as these only cool the GPU itself, but I then have copper heatsinks attached to each RAM chip to help these loose heat too.

In terms of removing the fan/aircool parts fitted on your card - this would depend on the exact card I suppose, but on all cards I have done (mainly Nvidia 7 series) these come off easily enough, the only fiddly bit being the unpluging of fan power from onboard the card.

If space is tight in your case, do be sure that you will have room for the VGA waterblock though, as they are generally even wider than the fan assembly even on double width cards like mine.

Once fitted however, I have had no issues and it keeps GPU temps way down and also helps case/MB temps as a result.

Ridesy