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I picked up an EVGA Titan X recently and found that the card can get extremely hot. EVGA has a water cooler for it... but it's been sold out for awhile and currently unavailable(unless you want to spend $500 for it on eBay... even though it's a $120 part).

That being the case, are there any other water cooling alternatives for this card? I was looking at the NZXT "Kraken G10" bracket(which says it has support for 'Titan') & then figured I could throw on a Corsair cooler. Is that feasible?
 
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STOP. I used the G10 before this on my 980ti. DO NOT USE IT. IT BENDS YOUR CARD SLOWLY AND COULD POSSIBLY BREAK IT. Something like a 980ti and titan X should NEVER have to deal with the lack of VRM cooling the G10 supplies. Get a custom loop instead and based upon the fact that you own a titan X, a water cooling loop is not too far out of your reach. Using the G10 may burn out your card or bend it and mis-shape it as it partially did mine until I water cooled it and gave it a back plate that straightened it back out. Please, DO NOT do the G10 route.
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The G10/Corsair would probably work, Titan X is a single GPU card after all BUT, there could be other issues.
This card has a pretty high power draw so it'll be essential to cool the VRMs', they don't have any over temperature protection and will burn out unless adequately cooled.
It's tricky to get the pump/coldplate to sit down evenly and firmly with a G10, this bracket has neither standoffs nor springs to help position it, just 4 rubber tipped Phillips nuts, so obtaining even, firm contact is a little difficult, if you go this route, DON'T load up the card straight away, check it's idle temperatures then load it gently until you can be sure the pump/coldplate is secure.

With the above said I have to say the Titan X cooler looks good but isn't particularly effective, even new and under review it quickly reached the cards 84C temperature limit, causing the card to back off its boost speed.
If the card is used, you could try stripping the card down, cleaning out the heatsink and replacing the thermal paste with a premium ( and non conductive) thermal paste before going the G10 route.
 
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So far I've disassembled it & replaced the thermal paste with Arctic Silver. I also replaced the stock heatsink/bracket with one from a GTX 980ti.. as that one has dual fans(as opposed to the stock only having 1).

I'll check out that NZXT thing anyway. Was hoping for something really good that would cool it well. Thanks for the reply!
 
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STOP. I used the G10 before this on my 980ti. DO NOT USE IT. IT BENDS YOUR CARD SLOWLY AND COULD POSSIBLY BREAK IT. Something like a 980ti and titan X should NEVER have to deal with the lack of VRM cooling the G10 supplies. Get a custom loop instead and based upon the fact that you own a titan X, a water cooling loop is not too far out of your reach. Using the G10 may burn out your card or bend it and mis-shape it as it partially did mine until I water cooled it and gave it a back plate that straightened it back out. Please, DO NOT do the G10 route.
 
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I did end up getting a Swiftech Apogee Drive II & EK parts (EK-FC Titan X water block , EK-CoolStream SE 240 radiator , EK-FC Titan X backplate).

I'm probably going to end up selling/trading the card though as the GTX 1080 is coming out soon.
 
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