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Japanese OEM Tosses Out GTX TITAN X Heatsink for AIO Liquid Cooler

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Japanese OEM gaming PC builder Sycom addressed the biggest shortcoming of reference NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X - heat (which runs into a thermal throttle too often), and the resulting noise (rivaling that of a Radeon R9 290X reference), by innovating a new all-in-one liquid cooling solution. Found on the company's G-Master Hydro series gaming desktops, these modified GTX TITAN X cards look reference, except a cut-out on its top, through which coolant tubes pass through.

The loop itself appears to be basic Asetek fare, with a round pump-block cooling the GPU, with its heat being dissipated by a 120 mm x 120 mm radiator. The memory and VRM is cooled by a base-plate that's ventilated by the NVTTM (NVIDIA time-to-market) reference cooler's main blower. Given that the GPU will run cool, we imagine that the blower will not be as noisy. NVIDIA restricts its add-in card partners from coming up with custom-design cards, but this mod appears to be by an OEM, and these cards won't be sold in the retail channel. It could fall into the same gray area that allows EVGA to sell its HydroCopper variants.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/211118/j...x-titan-x-heatsink-for-aio-liquid-cooler.html
 
Looks pretty bodged, the EVGA GTX980 AIO and Ichill Titan-X are much better looking.

As for the noise of the reference TX rivaling the 290X thats just silly, it has the same TDP as the Titan/Titan Black and same cooler so shouldn't be louder.

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They have brought the tubes out in front of the SLI fingers, thus blocking the installation of a bridge lol, bad bodge is bad XD.
 
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I've heard a 290x reference and my TX has never made it self that loud even when overclocked with an aggressive fan profile, nor has it throttled itself.

If you want to liquid cool it then do it properly.
 
snips86x said:
No!

I like the reference cooler so personally I think this looks better than the Inno! However, the stock coolers aren't that bad :)
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With a semi-aggressive fan profile it's silent (50% fans) and very cool (63-65c in game). It's when you start OCing past 1400mhz that things start to ramp up both ways :)
 
I can only imagine the conversation leading to the development of this...

"How can we make this look even worse?"

"Noctua fans?"

:p
 
andybird123 said:
This is basically the same photoshop job that came out when the original Titan launched, I'm pretty sure an AIO won't actually fit inside the shroud
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Think an AIO will fit, as newer AIO's are lower profile now.

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http://www.overclock.net/t/1466893/the-mod-2-0-an-epic-gtx-titan-rebuild

That's using one of the early AIO's, didn't completely fit but being lower profile now.

pgi947 said:
I can only imagine the conversation leading to the development of this...

"How can we make this look even worse?"

"Noctua fans?"

:p
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:D
 
Pointless, titan cooler is the best cooler on the market. If you want to water cool your £900 Gpu do it properly.
 
It looks stupid but I would say it's far from pointless. I shoved an AIO on my old GTX 480 Lightning and it won't go over 48c under load.

GPUs require far less water volume than a CPU, that's for sure.
 
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