Critical Shift to watercooling?

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It is very interesting to see a motherboard where the manufacturer has incorporated barbs into the heatsinks

This suggests to me that a critical number of people have started to watercool and some manufactures want to make products for this growing neiche

Asus have just announced they will be making cards with this "Poseidon" cooling for some of their cards. Much like the twin frozer series, it will be a special cooler they put on cards that have barbs on them.


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Probably comes with a hefty premium but I am really intrigued. Keeps the core cooler and the hsf should keep vrm/ram nice and cool without having to handle all the gpu heat.
And to an extent acting as a mini radiator as the heat in the loop goes up although outputing inside the case.
 
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Pretty nice, especially for non-ref cards which don't have full water-blocks. I assume you could stop/disconnect the fan if it's plumbed up?
 
If you're going to watercool, you don't need a fan, if you're not going to watercool you don't need a block. Seems kinda pointless, id much prefer just a waterblock option rather than both.
But maybe that's just me.
 
There's a thread about this in Graphics Cards, may be best if a mod merges them.


OLDPHART said:
It's nice to see someone try something new out, looking forward to a review.
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Its old tech, just hasn't been used in a while.


Cr4zy said:
If you're going to watercool, you don't need a fan, if you're not going to watercool you don't need a block. Seems kinda pointless, id much prefer just a waterblock option rather than both.
But maybe that's just me.
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The idea is you only add the GPU heat to the loop like a universal block, but still have heatsink/fan on the ram/VRM.
 
panyan said:
I was first :p :p :p
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lol, I didn't mean they should merge this one into the other /pat :P


OT though, this isn't really anything new, the were ones available for the 8800GTX:

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But it wouldn't be the first time a manufacturer takes an old idea and markets the hell out of it, here's an old Intel prototype for an "all in one" CPU cooler they made to get the 3.8GHz P4 to 5GHz:

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i like it!

What annoyed me about those motherboards with VRM cooling is that they were barbs and not threads for fittings. This looks like it has g1/4" threads, which is waaaay better. I guess it would be similar to PNY's watercooled 580, where the block only has direct contact on the core and the rest are cooled by heatsink and fan, which is still super effective! I would probably take that plastic cover off of it though, since it will probably look better.
 
Wait a minute...

The heatsink is a large circular aluminum fin array in which a 80/92mm fan throws air. The metal bracket is pretty large to which two inlets provide waterflow that transfers coolant to the copper base.
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In before a legion of n00bs run them without corrosion inhibitor then blame ASUS when goes a rye ^^
 
it doesn't actually say that the aluminium is in contact with the water... I would imagine that the copper block is copper top and bottom, with the ally heat sink bolted on the outside

I can't imagine any manufacturer in their right mind making a cooler that has both copper and ally in direct metal/water contact in this day and age
 
andybird123 said:
I can't imagine any manufacturer in their right mind making a cooler that has both copper and ally in direct metal/water contact in this day and age
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Plenty of radiators are made with aluminium and copper in direct contact. It is much safer than people think it is. Correct coolant solves most problems
 
andybird123 said:
it doesn't actually say that the aluminium is in contact with the water... I would imagine that the copper block is copper top and bottom, with the ally heat sink bolted on the outside
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True but in the pics with the shroud off the heatsink and liquid pipes are both silver so presumably alu.


ubersonic said:
The idea is you only add the GPU heat to the loop like a universal block, but still have heatsink/fan on the ram/VRM.
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I was wrong here, the heatsink covers everything and can cool the card by itself, you have the option of using fan/water or both to cool.

NB: A lot of sites are reporting this as for the GTX770 but no word yet from ASUS what its actually for, it is however reportedly GTX780/HD7970 sized.
 
Cr4zy said:
If you're going to watercool, you don't need a fan, if you're not going to watercool you don't need a block. Seems kinda pointless, id much prefer just a waterblock option rather than both.
But maybe that's just me.
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Correct. I am surprised none of the vendors do cards pre-fitted with waterblocks (and I dont mean the hybrid versions such as Ares2 etc).

I know I would buy a card, even possibly £50-£100 more expensive than the air cooled version for a pre-fitted block which obviously would mean warranty was intact and also remove the hassle of removing stock cooler and fitting block.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Plenty of radiators are made with aluminium and copper in direct contact. It is much safer than people think it is. Correct coolant solves most problems
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you are talking to someone who ran an ally car rad in a watercooling loop for over a year, I am aware of the pitfalls and solutions

I presume you are talking about car rads, because PC rads don't have the copper and ally both in the water, the ally is mounted to the outside of copper tubing, and where the metals don't both touch the water you never get an issue regardless of coolant used

concentrations and volumes of coolants tend to be much higher in cars, so whilst I had no problems using an ally rad that was otherwise electrically isolated from the rest of the loop, I certainly wouldn't be willing to run a rad or block that had ally in direct contact with copper and with both of them touching the coolant
 
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Five.Stars said:
Correct. I am surprised none of the vendors do cards pre-fitted with waterblocks (and I dont mean the hybrid versions such as Ares2 etc).

I know I would buy a card, even possibly £50-£100 more expensive than the air cooled version for a pre-fitted block which obviously would mean warranty was intact and also remove the hassle of removing stock cooler and fitting block.
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EVGA often do
 
I see this as a low cost watercooling option combined with one of those new AIO CPU watercooling units that can take additional components.
 
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