GTX 260 watercooling block

ryanmcdonald234 · 10-20-2008, 06:33 PM

As the title says, I am upgrading my system to water cooling in a week or so and by far the hottest component in my computer is this enormous beast of a graphics card. I have looked around on the web and at a few stores and I am having some difficulty finding a compatible water block for this card. Any one out there know of one that is available or will i just have to be stuck with stock (yawn) speed for a while?

My system:

AMD X2 6000+ @ 3.3GHZ processor
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 motherboard
XFX GTX 260 vid card
3GB G. Skill DD2800 RAM
Seagate 500GB 32mb cache HDD
Cooler Master Aquagate Max water cooling (soon)

**Aus_Karlos** · 10-25-2008, 02:32 AM

Ive just gone water cooling for my CPU and i have found that because my CPU heat is now been carried through pipes to a radiator and not though the case my GPU temp has dropped 15c..
The latest cards from Nvidia have excellent heatsink/fans and you wont really benefit with having a water block on it.
To drop your GPU temps by about 5c just take off the heatsink and apply some Arctic Silver 5 paste on the core(s). (Remove the original paste first.)

10-20-2008, 06:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
ryanmcdonald234 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 9 OS: windows XP home sp2	GTX 260 watercooling block As the title says, I am upgrading my system to water cooling in a week or so and by far the hottest component in my computer is this enormous beast of a graphics card. I have looked around on the web and at a few stores and I am having some difficulty finding a compatible water block for this card. Any one out there know of one that is available or will i just have to be stuck with stock (yawn) speed for a while? My system: AMD X2 6000+ @ 3.3GHZ processor Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 motherboard XFX GTX 260 vid card 3GB G. Skill DD2800 RAM Seagate 500GB 32mb cache HDD Cooler Master Aquagate Max water cooling (soon)

10-25-2008, 02:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
Aus_Karlos Moderator, Games Team Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Western Australia Posts: 3,422 OS: Vista Ultimate x64, Windows XP 32-bit/64-bit, Ubuntu x64, Windows 7 x64 Beta My System Blog Entries: 2	Re: GTX 260 watercooling block Ive just gone water cooling for my CPU and i have found that because my CPU heat is now been carried through pipes to a radiator and not though the case my GPU temp has dropped 15c.. The latest cards from Nvidia have excellent heatsink/fans and you wont really benefit with having a water block on it. To drop your GPU temps by about 5c just take off the heatsink and apply some Arctic Silver 5 paste on the core(s). (Remove the original paste first.) __________________ MemTest86 / Nvidia Drivers / ATI Drivers / DirectX 9.0c / Sys Requirements / Everest Folding@Home Last edited by Aus_Karlos; 10-25-2008 at 02:33 AM.