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I'm in the market for a GTX 1070 in the very near future. It has been 7 years since I have built my last system so I decided to build it all from scratch again. This time around I have chosen to explore the world of custom liquid cooling. I've had pretty good luck finding answers to my stupid questions but it looks like my luck has run out.

My question is, with the Founders Edition of the 1070 being more expensive 'allegedly' than the aftermarket ones. If I were to go with am aftermarket card, could I take of the stock cooler for liquid cooling or should I just stick with the Founders card? Has anyone had any experience with this?
 
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Keep an eye out, Aqua Computer have full coverage blocks on sale already and EKWB also show full cover blocks on their webshop over here in the UK, so I suggest you pop over to their site and take a look, you'll find they have a good compatibility list for each block and show nice, large photos of each card PCB for further reference.

Not sure you really NEED to upgrade that i7 2600K in your sig, if you have it overclocked it's still competitive against even the latest Skylake Quads out there, the only reason I can see to upgrade is if you want/need the extra features of the current motherboards or are just looking for ultimate performance.
Silly me, of course you're looking for ultimate performance. ;)

Going full liquid isn't...
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Yes you can take off the stock cooler, I don't see why not. It's easy.

Right now I think there aren't that many Waterblocks for aftermarket 1070's, if any. In month or two manufactuers are going to roll out cutom blocks for aftermarket GPU's, so if you can't wait you could buy the founders edition.

 
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Keep an eye out, Aqua Computer have full coverage blocks on sale already and EKWB also show full cover blocks on their webshop over here in the UK, so I suggest you pop over to their site and take a look, you'll find they have a good compatibility list for each block and show nice, large photos of each card PCB for further reference.

Not sure you really NEED to upgrade that i7 2600K in your sig, if you have it overclocked it's still competitive against even the latest Skylake Quads out there, the only reason I can see to upgrade is if you want/need the extra features of the current motherboards or are just looking for ultimate performance.
Silly me, of course you're looking for ultimate performance. ;)

Going full liquid isn't something to take lightly, it's expensive and there's a steep learning curve when you start out, so I strongly advise you do plenty of research before spending a single penny.
Plan, plan then plan again, but as a starter you'll need at least a 240mm rad of 45mm thickness to cool both the CPU and GPU without excessive fan noise (I'm running a 280x60mm rad with a i5 4690K and AMD R9 Nano, dual Noctua fans at 1150 RPM keep the GPU at sub 45C even under load and in virtual silence).
 
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I know that that the 2600K is still fine in this day and age, I more or less needed to upgrade to use that setup as a guest computer (it was more or less giving me a reason to upgrade ;) ) but yeah I see on EKWB website that they have a list of compatible 1070/1080 that their waterblocks work with. I plan on watercooling an overclocked CPU and GPU so I planned on running 2 x 360 radiators. Been watching a lot of JayzTwoCents videos all about water cooling, any other places you recommend that I take a look at for reference? I priced it out and everything would be about upwards of $600+ which is what I have set aside for watercooling at the moment although it looks more like $800 (*bank account cries*) but yeah it's a long term project anyways so I don't mind doing as much research as needed if you have any references?

Thanks for the advice thus far!
 
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