AIO watercooled AMD R9 290x

[Tripp]

thought some of you may be interested in this

http://www.legitreviews.com/nzxt-kraken-g10-gpu-water-cooler-review-on-an-amd-radeon-r9-290x_130344

 

[NeverBackDown]

I've seen this review before. It works but at that rate you mine as well go for a custom loop. Would yield better clocks and especially on the Vrms.

 

[SieB]

Interesting, temps are massively reduced, just a shame the VRMs don't get any benefit from it.

 

[barnsley]

put some passive heatsinks on the vrm and you'd be sorted. Nice to see that the cards can be OC'd with appropriate cooling.

 

[Kibeloko]

I quiet like the concept, tho i think it doesn't look good inside a case with another water cooler in the CPU, takes too much space imo...

 

[Remmy]

I agree, it's a nice idea to try bring watercooling to the more people but I just don't think it looks very good. Sure they have their uses in that you can take it in and out easily unlike a proper loop, but I think once you're getting on to the point where you want to watercool your CPU and GPU, you might as well just go custom, and make it look a hell of a lot nicer.

 

[Gamepro105]

I thought about doing this with that bracket and a h55? just as an experience because im sure i will eventually fully water cool a computer when i can afford to

 

[Jordan]

Look's interesting, I actually quite like that in a weird way.

 

[WYP]

don't link the idea of no heatsinks on the ram.

looks like a good product though, some people don't want to put the effort into a full loop but want those kind of temps.

 

[SieB]

I see this as more of a cheap alternative than anything else. If you want a proper loop you are looking at £250+ for all the parts needed.

A Kraken G10 and a Kraken G60 will cost about £100. If you want to spend a little bit extra, around £20 more, you can buy some heatsinks for the VRMs as well.

 

[Meladath]

I agree, it's a nice idea to try bring watercooling to the more people but I just don't think it looks very good. Sure they have their uses in that you can take it in and out easily unlike a proper loop, but I think once you're getting on to the point where you want to watercool your CPU and GPU, you might as well just go custom, and make it look a hell of a lot nicer.

I agree.
The problem is custom loops cost at the bare minimum £300. Not everyone has that kind of money considering you can buy A CPU AIO cooler and this for much less.

 

[Step83]

ive the Arctic cooling version that has a fan on it. Have to say i wouldnt want to run much more than my 6950 on a single 120mm rad i can warm things up quiet nicely on the back of the rad so i would imagine an R290 would need a twin rad at least