Watercooling a Video card

[racolvin]

Given some of the watercooling blocks I've seen for video cards, the small ones I'm ok with. Some of the larger ones, like the ones that cool the GPU and the VRAM (like the Innovatek ones), seem like they'd weigh so much once you get the water flowing through them that they'd bend/break the card right at the connector fingers.

Obviously I'm concerned about a tower case where the card horizontal and the only thing holding it in are the connector and the one little screw that holds it to the back of the computer.

I'd like to be able to cool the memory and all, so I can see how those coolers would be nice to have, it just seems dangerous as well.

R

 

[TAKKLE]

Small block plus ramsinks?

 

[Tyrant222]

if you do go with something that cools ram, I think it will add a lot of unnesessary heat.

besides that coolmatic will not cool better than a maze4.

the coolmatic is almost triple the price.

 

[HardWarrior]

I've only heard of one person with a block like mine who reported that his card was bending. The NV68 weighs 2-pounds BTW, and from the looks of it the coolmatic is a lot lighter. I haven't noticed any warping of my card or any indication that the AGP slot is under undo stress.

Tyrant, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "unnesessary heat." The operational purpose (beyond the bling or noise factors) of water-cooling is to remove heat from your rig. As long as you have enough surface area you can validly cool anything you want.