Gpu watercooling help

Joshred52

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I just recently built my own pc and i just installed a corsair h100i and now i wanna install a custom watercool in my system i also wanna watercool my SAPPHIRE 11197-03-CPO Radeon HD 7970 3GB graphic card but for some reason I can't find a full cover waterblock for my graphics card anyone can help me
 
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Right, I'm not trying to be rude either but part of building a custom setup involves being able to do a little DIY.
The short answer is, there is to my knowledge no full cover block for that card, from any of the major manufacturers anyway. Think about it. Sapphire alone produced what, a half dozen different 7970s, with several different PCBs, and that is just one out of many manufacturers. No one is going to produce a full cover block for like a 100 different models of a card. If you plan to water cool, you have a few choices. One, buy reference models. Two, buy a major version of a card designed for OCers, like MSI's lighning cards, or EVGAs classified cards for example. Three, do what you did, and get a universal block for...

Deuce65

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Right, I'm not trying to be rude either but part of building a custom setup involves being able to do a little DIY.
The short answer is, there is to my knowledge no full cover block for that card, from any of the major manufacturers anyway. Think about it. Sapphire alone produced what, a half dozen different 7970s, with several different PCBs, and that is just one out of many manufacturers. No one is going to produce a full cover block for like a 100 different models of a card. If you plan to water cool, you have a few choices. One, buy reference models. Two, buy a major version of a card designed for OCers, like MSI's lighning cards, or EVGAs classified cards for example. Three, do what you did, and get a universal block for the GPU and mod it to work with the memory\VRM configuration you have.
 
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Joshred52

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I've done that already and i have a couple idea just from ek that's why i was looking at other gpu cpu block like the swifttech i just didnt want to buy the heatsink and then buy the ek gpu cpu block then for it not to fit with the heatsink
 

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