Water Cooling is good?

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Samitheman

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Well i hear that Water Cooling a Graphic card cools it by20 C using a Antec Kulher 620 but some say that if you use a cooler the VRAM goes to 100C and destroys it.Should i buy a water cooler or not? :( ? (P.S i bought a new pc so i need good answer)
 
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I'd bet unless you have a reference cooler a 620 would not be an improvement. Remember, water cooling is nothing magic, all cooling performance (unless its below ambient) is determined by the amount of surface area you have, a thin 120mm rad like the 620 is nothing special.
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Here is the thing, regular heatsinks cool both gpu and memory. If you remove the standard heatsink and replace it with something that cools gpu only, memory modules are left without normal cooling. Whether memory needs additional cooling, depends on a card. Not very powerful cards don't need it, more powerful ones may need.

What card do you have?
 
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The Antec Kuhler 620 is for processors not video cards, that being said, if you can afford to custom water cool your video card, you can afford a set of heatsinks for your VRAM. With the VRAM heatsinks, you use a thermal paste that's also an adhesive so that they stick. There are also air coolers out there that do a good job of keeping the video card cool, sometimes they come with everything, sometimes not, just gotta shop around. Personally, I can't see water cooling a video card, they're engineered to run hot, and that 100$ for the cooler can buy you a better card in most cases that you don't need to overclock to get the same results, only when you're talking absolute high end overclocking does watercooling come into it's own, or fun or bragging rights. Nothing against WC, I would if I could afford it, but it's not a necessity.
 
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I'd bet unless you have a reference cooler a 620 would not be an improvement. Remember, water cooling is nothing magic, all cooling performance (unless its below ambient) is determined by the amount of surface area you have, a thin 120mm rad like the 620 is nothing special.
 
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If you ARE interested about watercooling and want to now the workarounds to getting started this is the first place you should look. Please be patient in reading the contents, it'll be clarified as you read on.

If you're only looking into the CLC options there is a link that should take you to the Closed loop Coolers section.

Watercooling isn't about straping a CLC and jerry-rigging it to a component. Components cost money and usually they will be your systems downfall looked after poorly. As manofchalk pointed out cooling critical components need to be taken into account.

True but you'd also need to look into the FPI count on a rad. While having a high fin count would need higher rpm&static pressured fans(=more noise), a low fin count would produce similar results at a lower noise level than before.

Hope this helps
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