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MrSuperSnake

MrSuperSnake

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Hello everyone and I need help finding a good liquid cooling to cool my four SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 6GB in quad crossfire.. So if you guys can help me out on deciding what liquid cooler I should get for my four GPU's. Also if you guys think I don't need liquid cooling for these cards please tell me !

Link to the four graphics cards I am going to buy : http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202005&Tpk=SAPPHIRE%20Vapor-X%20100351-6GVXSR%20Radeon%20HD%207970%20GHz

- Thanks MrSuperSnake
 
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JackNaylorPE
With CFs current problems, not sure what "extra" you will get outta the deal by WC'ing or why you would consider CF'ing 4 AMD cards..... accepted wisdom for AMD has always been its OK for two cards but not more....with the current CF issues.....I haven't had anyone ask for a CF build in months

Original problem:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6857/amd-stuttering-issues-driver-roadmap-fraps/6
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-benchmarking-frame-rate,3466.html
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Frame-Rating-Part-3-First-Results-New-GPU-Performance-Tools?page=2#comments

On the attempted fix:

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1804/pg1/amd-catalyst-138-beta-review-frame-pacing-fix-full-article.html...
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manofchalk

manofchalk

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You dont just "get" a liquid cooler for graphics cards (you can, but they arent any good IMO). If you want them under water, you need to build a custom loop.

Non-reference design PCB's, your going to have to look into Universal GPU blocks if you want them under water.

If your willing to drop the 6GB of VRAM (which is pointless BTW, top end games are barely taking advantage of more than 2GB), I would go for a reference design card like this which will be a lot easier to find a block for.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102961
That and your saving a fair chunk by not buying a heatsink you will never use.
 
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JackNaylorPE

JackNaylorPE

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With CFs current problems, not sure what "extra" you will get outta the deal by WC'ing or why you would consider CF'ing 4 AMD cards..... accepted wisdom for AMD has always been its OK for two cards but not more....with the current CF issues.....I haven't had anyone ask for a CF build in months

Original problem:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6857/amd-stuttering-issues-driver-roadmap-fraps/6
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-benchmarking-frame-rate,3466.html
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Frame-Rating-Part-3-First-Results-New-GPU-Performance-Tools?page=2#comments

On the attempted fix:

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1804/pg1/amd-catalyst-138-beta-review-frame-pacing-fix-full-article.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7195/amd-frame-pacing-explorer-cat138/13
http://hardocp.com/article/2013/08/01/amd_catalyst_138_beta_frame_pacing_crossfire_driver/#.Ufsxbm0piX8


If ya go nVidia, ya can buy them WC Ready
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130923
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Asus-ROG-GTX-770-Poseidon,22899.html

Otherwise, ya mostly stuck with reference cards or have to give up fill cover cooling and just do the GPU
http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/
 
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griptwister

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Just wait a month or two and go with Titan 2 way SLI. At least you'll have the amount of VRAM that you want, decent performance, and less glitches in your system. I wouldn't recommend using more than two cards.

Or you could wait for AMD to release their HD 9970 in a couple of months, and buy two of those with the stock (reference) coolers and be Hydro ready. I believe those will have 4gb of VRAM.
 
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