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Watercooling an AMD RX 9070 XT

Drangueos

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I bought an Asus RX 9070 XT Prime OC, but I will be watercooling it.

1 - Took a gamble and bought a Bykski waterblock, even that I couldn't find to many information about it.
2 - Got a faulty block
3 - Ordered an alphacool block
4 - Let's see how it goes now...

These blocks should fit these cards:

Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC Edition 16GB GDDR6
Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 OC Edition 16GB GDDR6
Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT OC Edition 16GB GDDR6
Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT OC Edition 16GB GDDR6


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Drangueos said:
I'm thinking of buying a 9070 or 9070xt, but I will be watercooling it.
I can't find much information about a Bykski waterblocks for them.
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I've used a Bykski block for an older GPU in the past, very good quality and if you buy at the right time you can get them quite cheap as well
 
Apparently you shouldn't get them off Ali Express the official store is not official. The blocks do look quite nice, though the alphacool ones are nicer. Shame they're trying to compete with EK on price!!
 
BS Dave said:
Apparently you shouldn't get them off Ali Express the official store is not official. The blocks do look quite nice, though the alphacool ones are nicer. Shame they're trying to compete with EK on price!!
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When they have a sale and if you use the coins page instead of the main page, you can get them quite cheap, to the tune of approx £85 :)
 
So I've got an Asus Prime RX 9070 XT and ordered a Bykski A-AS9070TUF-X waterblock, got the GPU already, but just ordered the block.
Will update here when I get the block and manage to put it together.
 
Are the ASUS Prime and TUF boards the same on the 9070 cards? The TUF version of the Asus RTX5080 differs quite a bit form the 5080 Prime. Has different capacitors and chokes, and things are spaced out differently, etc.
 
Bubo said:
Are the ASUS Prime and TUF boards the same on the 9070 cards? The TUF version of the Asus RTX5080 differs quite a bit form the 5080 Prime. Has different capacitors and chokes, and things are spaced out differently, etc.
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Yes, I contacted Bykski to confirm with them, the block is compatible with Tuf and Prime cards.

Alphacool block is also compatible with both and the non XT cards as well.

So the blocks ban be used with these cards:

Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC Edition 16GB GDDR6
Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 OC Edition 16GB GDDR6
Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT OC Edition 16GB GDDR6
Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT OC Edition 16GB GDDR6
 
Looks nice. If my pulse didn't have such a mediocre power limit i might have got one too. I loved my Pascal titan under water.
 
Well bad news, it doesn't fit properly and looks like there is a defect where it touches de core, as I can actually feel a little imperfection with my finger.
Also I tried a dry fitting, but you can see in the picture that it leaves a big gap between the board and the standoff, and that is in all of them.

If was not the imperfection on the block, you probably could get away with some washers, BUT that was not part of the instructions and not ideal.










Well, now it is to wait for alphacool blocks to come back in stock.
 
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Drangueos said:
Well bad news, it doesn't fit properly and looks like there is a defect where it touches de core, as I can actually feel a little imperfection with my finger.
Also I tried a dry fitting, but you can see in the picture that it leaves a big gap between the board and the standoff, and that is in all of them.

If was not the imperfection on the block, you probably could get away with some washers, BUT that was not part of the instructions and not ideal.










Well, now it is to wait for alphacool blocks to come back in stock.
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Ah rubbish. I was looking forward to your next update :(
 
So I've ordered another Bykski one, hopping the one I have is faulty.

I will be returning the one I have now, as it is not normal to have that imperfection where it touches the core.

A quote from Bykski support when I asked about the gaps:

A slight gap is intentional in order to increase the contact pressure on the chip. The screws only need to be tightened until sufficient pressure is built up and the PCB begins to bend slightly.
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All the other watercooled gpus I had, about 10 or more watercooled, never had that big of a gap.
Yes sometimes it would bend a little, but nowhere close to this.
 
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Do those nuts on the 4 mounting threads around the core chip look like they unscrew/come off? I know the Alphacool 5080 blocks comes with black nylon shipping spacers around the core which you are meant to remove before installation. I think the blocks comes with the backpplate screwed to the block, and the shipping spacers are there to keep the backplate clear of the block during shipping.
 
Bubo said:
Do those nuts on the 4 mounting threads around the core chip look like they unscrew/come off? I know the Alphacool 5080 blocks comes with black nylon shipping spacers around the core which you are meant to remove before installation. I think the blocks comes with the backpplate screwed to the block, and the shipping spacers are there to keep the backplate clear of the block during shipping.
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Bykski blocks don't come with the spacers you are talking about, as the backplate doesn't come attached to the block.


Bykski confirmed that my block is faulty, so I'm returning it.

I've just ordered the "Alphacool Core RX 9070 XT ASUS TUF + Prime Graphics Card Water Block" from OcUK
 
BS Dave said:
Looks nice. If my pulse didn't have such a mediocre power limit i might have got one too. I loved my Pascal titan under water.
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You can remove the power limit completely and it's quite simple, but unfortunately it's a hardware mod, so warranty would be out the window.
 
Drangueos said:
So I've ordered another Bykski one, hopping the one I have is faulty.

I will be returning the one I have now, as it is not normal to have that imperfection where it touches the core.

A quote from Bykski support when I asked about the gaps:



All the other watercooled gpus I had, about 10 or more watercooled, never had that big of a gap.
Yes sometimes it would bend a little, but nowhere close to this.
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That gap seems way too big to me. Id say theyve got very poor design and quality or they've measured something wrong when designing the block with gaps that big. The 3090 tuf block I had and gtx970 G1 gaming bykski block never had gaps like that.
 
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