780 Cooling?

[RICKST20]

Got my birthday coming up! So I'm on the hunt to watercool my GPU. It will be replacing a single, reference cooled 780.
Looking at this selection here, can anyone of you see any immediate problems with this?
A full loop is out of the question as i wont have the budget for it!
I have 120mm fan mounts near enough to mount the rad.
Is it enough?
Is there anything i should consider here like VRM cooling etc?
Or should i go for a decent air cooler instead?

Any info or help would be great!
Thanks


YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Hydro H55 Quiet Liquid CPU Cooler £52.99
1 x NZXT KRAKEN G10 GPU Cooling Adapter - Black £24.95
Total : £77.94 (includes shipping : ).

 

[pastymuncher]

The vrm's need cooling so you need to buy some heatsinks for those as well because the Kraken comes with nothing for them. A couple of people on here had burnt out AMD cards because they used Krakens without heatsinks for the vrms. Personally I would get a decent air cooler for it instead.

 

[RICKST20]

Thanks for the info!
Iv been doing a lot of research on this, and its looking like Nvidia vrm's increase in temps using this bracket. So heat sinks are a must! I'm struggling to find small enough ones to fit the small vrm's though!
Im just wondering if the stock passive cooling plate will remain in place. As a kind of bridge between finding some small enough heat sinks.

Failing that. What am i looking at for a decent air cooler? Iv never bought a new cooler to date so I'm kind of at a loss as to what is good!

I just know this card has a lot more to give, but those damn temps are holding it back using a stock cooler!

 

[pastymuncher]

Something like the Prolimatech MK-26 Multi-VGA Cooler or the Alpenföhn Peter 2 - Universal High-End VGA Cooler would be good. I believe they come with all the neccessary ramsinks and vrm heatsinks as well. The downside is that the fans are extra but OCUK do sell them as kits.