Water cooling a Gigabyte r9 280x windforce

Jan 25, 2014
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Hello all. I hoping that some one can shed a little light on this for me. i have a Gigabyte R9 280x card and would like to strt planing my watercooling rig and can not find a good solid answer to what companys make a full plate waterblock that fits this card. any help would be great

p.s. i have read and searched but do not want to spend money on a maybe. I hope some one out there has done this or is trying it.
 
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I don´t have that card myself but with Gigabyte it usually goes like this:
First they release the stock card with stock cooler.
Then they release the stock card with their WF3 cooler installed but everything else (including the PCB) is left stock.
Next up is a slightly modified PCB + WF3 cooler. Usually they call this Rev. 02 or something.
Some time later they release a heavily modified version. Custom cooler, custom PCB, backplate and highly overclocked.


Som3one

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I don´t have that card myself but with Gigabyte it usually goes like this:
First they release the stock card with stock cooler.
Then they release the stock card with their WF3 cooler installed but everything else (including the PCB) is left stock.
Next up is a slightly modified PCB + WF3 cooler. Usually they call this Rev. 02 or something.
Some time later they release a heavily modified version. Custom cooler, custom PCB, backplate and highly overclocked.


 
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