GPU cooling kit, what's the difference?

The bottom link has a slightly thicker radiator. That is the only difference between them. The 1070 Ti is not listed in the compatibility list but I would imagine if it fits a 1080 it will fit a 1070 ti.
 
Thanks Robbie, thinking the thinner rad might be better simply due to the case I have (Fractal Define C) and I'm running a Noctua D14. I'll measure up tonight to make sure it will fit. The heat exchanger also deffo isn't 2.4 meters? lol
 
Ordered the cheaper one, but not because I'm a *****, more down to only having 52mm clearance at the top for the rad and fan. I'll make it fit regardless, I have a dremel and I'm not afraid to use it.
 
vintage-x said:
I would recommend having the fans on the rad as exhaust as there will be a lot of heat coming from the radiator. Much more then from a CPU
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second this - I've got the 30mm rad version and it pumps the heat out from my msi gaming RX480 8GB - temps around 40-45c depending on the game. I installed mine with a verticle graphics card unit as the hose length on those asekek units isn't very long.
 
I'm planning to mount the rad at the top of my Fractal Define C case, I hope the hose length will be long enough, as I couldn't see any mention of this, but assumed it wouldn't be an issue as it's a fairly normal place to have the rad mounted. There's only one fan that comes with this kit though, the other one is in the shroud, which I assume it to cool the GPU ram/VRMs? What have you done regarding the VRM's, I'm again with it being an AOI that I wont need any additional VRM cooling, like heatsinks?

I'll have the fan that comes with it, plus I have a few other case fans spare now, so could stick two on the rad at the top of the case both drawing air out. Would that be the best solution you think? I'm new to this water cooling lark, I only went for this as I like to run my GPU clocked up to whatever I can with stable temps, but this means that the fan needs to be at 100% to keep the card in the low 70's.
 
VRM's are fine they get cooled by the fan. I only had to remove the cooler from my card - the front and back plate didn't need to be removed. heat sinks are only going to be needed if they are not getting enough air.

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You got anymore pics of it fully installed from both sides? I'm running the ***** version of the Palit GTX 1070ti, so there's no back plate on it anyway. It will literally just have the new AIO plate on when the kit turns up (which wont be for a couple of weeks, as sadly when I ordered it said it was in stock, but went out of stock just after I ordered :( )
 
How are the fans connected? I'm concerned that I'm already using all the fan connectors on the motherboard and one of those is using a splitter already for my Noctua d14. I'm thinking I'll probably replace one of the fans in the kit with either my fractal or artic fans.
 
the kraken fan is connected via pwm on the motherboard. The rad fans are connected via a fan controller. I use the 5v setting and a quiet connector for around 800rpm. both the CPU and GPU rads have push/pull fans.
 
KungFuSpaghetti said:
I'm planning to mount the rad at the top of my Fractal Define C case, I hope the hose length will be long enough, as I couldn't see any mention of this, but assumed it wouldn't be an issue as it's a fairly normal place to have the rad mounted. There's only one fan that comes with this kit though, the other one is in the shroud, which I assume it to cool the GPU ram/VRMs? What have you done regarding the VRM's, I'm again with it being an AOI that I wont need any additional VRM cooling, like heatsinks?

I'll have the fan that comes with it, plus I have a few other case fans spare now, so could stick two on the rad at the top of the case both drawing air out. Would that be the best solution you think? I'm new to this water cooling lark, I only went for this as I like to run my GPU clocked up to whatever I can with stable temps, but this means that the fan needs to be at 100% to keep the card in the low 70's.
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Hose length may be an issue. I was using a dark base 900 pro and I couldn't reach the roof. Not sure weather the distance between your card and the roof in the fractal is shorter though (I needed an extra couple of inches to reach)

I would suggest fans at the front blowing cool air into your case if you can fit in the roof (helps feed the vrm fan as well something that concerned me when I had both my rads blowing hot air into the case which is why I switched them to blowing hot air out) and the rad fans blowing air up out the top of your case.

My temps usually got to around 50c when I had 2 cards but when I had one card (other was RMA for a month) I mounted the rad at the bottom of the case with 3 fans blowing in and temps never went about 42c.
 
Thanks mate, think that's the plan. I have two front case fans at the moment blowing air towards motherboard VRMs and the cpu cooler tower with an exhaust fan behind. VRM chilling on the motherboard isn't an issue though as I'm not using the standard alloy and copper heat pipe setup, I've got solid forged copper enzotech coolers so temps never went above 46 degrees anyway :)
Ideally rad at the top of the case then with the fans above pulling air off it?
 
KungFuSpaghetti said:
Thanks mate, think that's the plan. I have two front case fans at the moment blowing air towards motherboard VRMs and the cpu cooler tower with an exhaust fan behind. VRM chilling on the motherboard isn't an issue though as I'm not using the standard alloy and copper heat pipe setup, I've got solid forged copper enzotech coolers so temps never went above 46 degrees anyway :)
Ideally rad at the top of the case then with the fans above pulling air off it?
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push or pull at the top shouldn't matter too much
 
Thanks for answering all my dumb questions lol.

I think I'll mount the fans vent side at the top with the rad underneath and have one blow air on the side where the pump comes in and the other drawing it off. Should get some additional cooling anyway from the two front fans.
 
KungFuSpaghetti said:
Thanks for answering all my dumb questions lol.

I think I'll mount the fans vent side at the top with the rad underneath and have one blow air on the side where the pump comes in and the other drawing it off. Should get some additional cooling anyway from the two front fans.
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If your talking about having the rad fans blow diffrent ways its not a good idea. Always have them pushing or pulling in the same direction on the rad
 
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