GPU watercooling

metbandit1

metbandit1

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I'm currently thinking about upgrading my dual GTX 260 setup for a dual 550ti setup and i would like to over clock the cards and cool them by water cooling.

Would you be able to spec me a water cooling setup or these 2 cards? im currently OK air cooling my CPU so i dont need water cooling for that.
Would be nice to have some headroom in the future for it though.

sorry if my explanation is a bit confusing ive had a very long day.

would be nice if cost could be kept at about £150
 
Full cover water blocks for these haven't been made yet so you would have to use a universal block and add heatsinks to VRM's and RAM.

2 water blocks, heatsinks, radiator, reservoir, pump, fittings and tubing ain't going to come near £150.
 
think it would just be worth buying the cards and running them on air until the full cover water blocks come out then?
thanks for the reply!
 
2 full cover blocks say £130
Radiator say £40
Pump say £50
Reservoir say £25
Fittings say £10
Tubing say £5

That's around £260 to cool £230 worth of graphics cards.

Personally I'd save the money or you could buy a very high end card or 2 very good cards for less than £490.

GTX550 is a pretty low end card and only a marginal imrovement on what you already have.

You'd be paying all that money for perhaps a 10% improvement:

This review has some comparisons with the GTX260:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-550-ti-review-msi-cyclone-ii-oc/1
 
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