Water cooling GTX 980 g1 gaming by Gigabyte

Post by **MagisterXF94** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 4:45 pm

Hey.
I am about to buy The gtx 980 by Gigabyte.
And knowing that water cooling GPUS is cheaper nowdays, i wanted to try water cooling my newest GPU.
Having no experience in graphics card water cooling, I ask you members of the pc master race this:
Is there a closed water loop for my GPU which is also easy to mount, and maintain?
Thanks
http://gaming.coolermaster.com/en/products/cases/stryker/
^ my case

Malicious Wraith · Post by **Malicious Wraith** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 10:42 pm

You intend to overclock your 980 to the extent you want water cooling? Are you going to run Allegiance in 10808080p?

I have heard rumors of mounts you can stick on your card that would enable you to attach a retail closed loop water cooler, but I am not sure if this is the stuff of fantasy.

Post by **MagisterXF94** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 10:55 pm

Malicious Wraith wrote:QUOTE (Malicious Wraith @ Dec 7 2014, 11:42 PM) You intend to overclock your 980 to the extent you want water cooling? Are you going to run Allegiance in 10808080p?

I have heard rumors of mounts you can stick on your card that would enable you to attach a retail closed loop water cooler, but I am not sure if this is the stuff of fantasy.

lol
i just wanna inform myself on the possibility of running a water loop on the 980 and yes i wanna overclock it.
(allegiance in 4k would be cool btw)!

Patman3 · Post by **Patman3** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:34 am

Corsair makes a bracket called the HG10, not sure if it supports your card. NZXT makes another one called the G10 Kraken that has been in market longer. Both require you to purchase a compatible closed loop cooler on your own.

NightRychune · Post by **NightRychune** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:59 am

i would recommend against buying a 980

the 970 is an excellent GPU and it's not a significant enough performance increase over a 970 to warrant spending another $200 on it, and even then unless you also have either a 4k monitor or a 120hz monitor it's going to be wasted in applications outside of the newest games on ultra, and it's still a waste unless you have a sufficiently powerful CPU to ensure you aren't cpu bound in anything

Patman3 · Post by **Patman3** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 2:55 am

NightRychune wrote:QUOTE (NightRychune @ Dec 7 2014, 07:59 PM) the 970 is an excellent GPU and it's not a significant enough performance increase over a 970 to warrant spending another $200 on it, and even then unless you also have either a 4k monitor or a 120hz monitor it's going to be wasted in applications outside of the newest games on ultra, and it's still a waste unless you have a sufficiently powerful CPU to ensure you aren't cpu bound in anything

Night is 100% correct here, but if I recall correctly Blacksun has limited access to PC components and thus may not have that many options in front of him.

I forgot to add that some of the closed loop cooler brackets do a terrible job of cooling the non GPU parts of the card (VRM/memory chips/etc...).

If you go the route of full (real) watercooling...make sure you get a card with a "reference" design lest you run into complications finding a compatible waterblock.