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I have been a PC gamer for about two years now and I decided to take it to the next level by going to purchase a 980 TI Hydro Copper Edition graphics card. The card itself comes ready with the water cooling Backplate for the card, but I need to put in a custom water cooling system. I know this is sad, but would anyone be able to tell me everything that I need to have the water cooling system up and running? Thanks
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For a custom loop you'll need everything, fittings, tubing, radiators, liquid, blocks (For the CPU, GPU comes with one). tbh if you're asking broad questions you may not be ready to do a custom loop. Do some more research and watch JayzTwoCents to learn more about custom loops and how to build them. He has some pretty informative videos and guides. You could also buy a NZXT bracket and an h50 but it'd be a waste of money considering your card already has a block on it
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flop wrote For a custom loop you'll need everything, fittings, tubing, radiators, liquid, blocks (For the CPU, GPU comes with one). tbh if you're asking broad questions you may not be ready to do a custom loop. Do some more research and watch JayzTwoCents to learn more about custom loops and how to build them. He has some pretty informative videos and guides. You could also buy a NZXT bracket and an h50 but it'd be a waste of money considering your card already has a block on it
Yeah trust me I am not even going to consider installing it myself. Fry's electronics is going to charge me only $40 to have it professionally installed. I just need to buy everything you said, my question is what should I buy for this? I have built two PCs before and my most recent build has a water cooler for the CPU.
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I wouldn't recommend a custom loop if you aren't doing it yourself. You won't know what you're doing if something bad happens or you need to replace a component.
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I dont think anyone here has done a full custom loop so any information has come from elsewhere.
Personally, Id have have a look at OCN to get a good idea of possible builds and good tutorials as well as very informative people that you could ask.
Personally, Id have have a look at OCN to get a good idea of possible builds and good tutorials as well as very informative people that you could ask.
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Xiggy wrote I dont think anyone here has done a full custom loop so any information has come from elsewhere.
Personally, Id have have a look at OCN to get a good idea of possible builds and good tutorials as well as very informative people that you could ask.
I have done a custom loop for a 4790k and SLI 980s. It's not that it's extremely hard, it's just really expensive for blocks and compression fittings and it's much more tedious for pretty much everything. However I wouldn't recommend it for someone who doesn't even know what you need for it, especially if they aren't installing it themself. If he REALLY wants to though, he can get watercooling kits from EKWB for a fair price that has the basics if he doesn't want to manually buy everything
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