Need Liquid Cooling advice

Bl00dangel · Oct 1, 2013

Hell All,

I am needing help with trying to setup a liquid cooling system for my GTX 680 4GB FTW Edition graphics card.

The issue I am noticing is that, my connections for my power are stacked one on top of the other. In all of the videos I have watched, every GTX 680 has the connections side by side.

I was wondering if anyone knew a compatible cooler or and modifications I could do.

Thanks for you help!

Drew010 · Oct 1, 2013

Check to see if your particular model number is a reference PCB, and then check the manufacturers of VGA waterblocks for compatibility.

rubix_1011 · Oct 2, 2013

You'll want to check PCB reference or not starting here:

http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/

Just go through the prompts and you should be able to find your card....once you know that, you'll know if you have reference or not. Many times, reference PCB has the little nVidia logo near the PCI-e connector, but that isn't 100% the case.

ldewitt · Oct 2, 2013

www.FrozenCPU.com has alot of good liquid cooling components.
Heres a direct link to there liquid cooling components:
http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l1/g30/Liquid_Cooling.html?id=ptxKDDjB

rubix_1011 · Oct 2, 2013

ldewitt :

Yes, but he's still at the point of needing to know what he will actually need to get...that was the main premise to the thread.

Bl00dangel · Oct 5, 2013

Thank you for the help in getting me started on this.

I was able to go through the prompts and I now have a list of products. One area is for "Full VGA Covers" and the other is "VGA Universal". If I am correct, I would think the full cover would be better, but what I am lacking to understand is how to determine which one would be the best or the correct one to choose.

I do apologize if this would be a simple process lol. First timer here.

rubix_1011 · Oct 5, 2013

If you can determine a full cover block will fit your card, it will cool better- yes. However, full cover blocks are more expensive (usually 2x cost) and can only be used on that card. Universals can typically be used on any card as long as you have the proper mounting hardware for each card. But, you have to then take into account that you need to cool the MOSFETs, VRMs and vRAM of the card. Check the watercooling sticky as there is a section dedicated to this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/277130-29-read-first-watercooling-sticky#3718882

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