ASUS GTX 970 Turbo, no block for water cooling?

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XistenZ

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During a sale I bought a 970 Turbo from ASUS, because it was cheap and I had been thinking for a while that I want a new graphics card :) so without doing a ton of research except for checking benchmarks I bought it, and I've been happy with it so far.

However I've been thinking of adding watercooling to my case, and I discovered that there's no blocks that would fit this particular card? I never did any watercooling so I did not know this could be an issue.

Am I just bad at google-fu or will I never be able to watercool this card?
I know it's designed to cool well in SLI (which I'm not doing BTW), but as I said the card was on sale and it does perform well, which was my main focus then.

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Thanks, I did not know that site existed :) I'm sure it's very handy for those with cards that can be watercooled...
"Sorry, we have no plans to make any waterblocks for this position. Thank you."

Unless they change their minds and make a waterblock, I'm out of luck?
 
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I feel your pain. They usually only make water blocks for reference cards because it is a larger market for them. One of the reasons you see reference cards go for more on eBay than none reference cards (plus most eBayers are insane with their prices). Its not that they are better cards just that you have more options with them.

 
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I wonder if you can use a 970 Strix Water block on the Turbo. The PCBs look very similar...

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The screw holes look like they would line up but the issue might be capacitor locations that would require a CNC machine to cut out grooves in the block to get it to fit.
 
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Figured as much. :( I have mixed mashed back plates before but not water blocks because I can drill holes in back plates but I don't have a CNC machine to mod water blocks :p
 
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Thanks for everyones input, good to know that I shouldn't even try a block that's designed for something else :) I was actually thinking "how different can it be?".
Well at least I'm a bit more experienced when it comes to graphics cards, just too bad wisdom comes at such high cost :p
 
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