Difficulty of putting a water cooler on a 8800 GTX

this will by my first time with a water cooling project and i would like to know how difficult it will be for me to put a WC block on the graphics card or any after market cooling on the 8800 GTX because it is an expensive card and i do not want to f**k it up

if this belongs under cooling i apologize and please move it but since it was a graphics related question i figured it was ok under this forum

Hiya.

I installed a swiftech waterblock on my 8800gtx and it runs fine. One thing to note is that if you use a block like the Swiftech which only covers your GPU you will need to install some cooling mechanism on the vrms and memory chips.

I installed some heatsinks on mine however the sticky pads you get with them or crap and don;t stick, so you may find you need to use a tiny bit of superglue on the corners to make them secure.

You could of course just get one of the blocks which covers everything but for me there was far too expensive considering that the swiftech costs about £20.00 and in most cases outperforms them.


Theres a whole thread on extremeforums somewhere about wc the 8800 series its worth a read.