Water Cooling for Sapphire Radeon Nitro R9 380 4GB GPU?

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to help my boyfriend figure out a way to water cool his video card (if its possible). He has the Sapphire Radeon Nitro R9 380 4GB.

We're thinking he needs to water cool as when he games (mostly Blizzard games), he streams on twitch. He recently overheated his video card and wants to keep the temp down on it (I believe it was in the high 80's when it started overheating)

Thank you!
 
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coozie7
Mid 70s is not too bad TBH, the reviews get <>68C under load in rooms that are about 23C, so if your room is hotter expect the card temperatures to rise accordingly.
I'm running a Spec 03 case and found the following got the best out of my R9 290 Tri-X card:
Front; 2x140mm intake (moderate speed).
Case floor; 120mm intake.
Rear; 120mm exhaust.
Top; rear 120mm exhaust with the front top location blocked off with a book-adding a fifth fan here didn't help with the GPU temperatures but added some extra noise AND increased my CPU temperatures (guessing the CPU cooler fan didn't like turning the upwards moving airstream 90 as the Hyper 212 Plus CPU cooler is aimed at the rear exhaust fan).
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If it's hitting those temperatures, or more, it could point to another issue: Poor case ventilation, so if the system case has less than stellar ventilation, try the old trick of running with the side panel off, if things improve, or the problem vanishes your boyfriend needs to improve the system ventilation.
 
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Yeah the day after we definitely invested in some better ventilation. So now along with his CPU cooler, he has an additional 4 case fans and they definitely helped! However he's still getting readings in the mid 70's. He was streaming at 40FPS on 1080p when we got those readings.
 
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Mid 70s is not too bad TBH, the reviews get <>68C under load in rooms that are about 23C, so if your room is hotter expect the card temperatures to rise accordingly.
I'm running a Spec 03 case and found the following got the best out of my R9 290 Tri-X card:
Front; 2x140mm intake (moderate speed).
Case floor; 120mm intake.
Rear; 120mm exhaust.
Top; rear 120mm exhaust with the front top location blocked off with a book-adding a fifth fan here didn't help with the GPU temperatures but added some extra noise AND increased my CPU temperatures (guessing the CPU cooler fan didn't like turning the upwards moving airstream 90 as the Hyper 212 Plus CPU cooler is aimed at the rear exhaust fan).
 
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