Integrated water cooling for graphics cards?

[MissChief]

I've got a reference EVGA 670 and I plan on getting a new case soonish and was thinking about improving the cooling of the card as it's starting to run rather warm with the warmer weather coming in recently. A couple of nights ago my room was getting very warm so I opened the door and cracked the window. Before that the card was apparently hitting 99'C

So this has made me consider that instead of going for a prefilled cooling solution for my CPU which currently sits under a Gelid Tranquillo and rarely hits higher than 50'C I might be better to cool the card better.

Does such a thing exist or will it end up being something that will be bodged from a CPU version and I'd be better off selling the 670 and buying a custom cooled 770?

 

[StonedPenguin]

99c ****. How high was the ambient? 50c? lol

Try giving your card a clean mate, Something doesn't sound right.

When I had 1 670 on air heavily OC'd it would peak around 65c, 70c if ambient was high.

 

[Boldie007]

Are you running a cutom fan profile or the BIOS default?
Can you handle a bit of extra noise from the GPU fan?

 

[MissChief]

Fan profile according to Afterburner was set for 100% so not sure whats up. Might check my fans and dust covers but ambient was probably 25'c.

 

[no_1_dave]

That's far hotter then any 670 I've seen

 

[MissChief]

I know. Could Afterburner be reading wrong?

 

[mjones1]

Reapply the thermal paste,with evga cards they still keep the warranty.

 

[Kaktus69]

99c does sound extremely high, my Asus 670 never went above 70-71c on air. With waterblock it rarely goes above 40c.

 

[Ch3m1c4L]

if you have good airflow, a decent air cooler will be better than pre made water cooling, if they even exist. Only reason I bother with it is for looks, and space.
Single slot was my #1 reason for water cooling, and not I can't get that and have still not got round to updating my cards because of it.

Temps wise, with high static pressure fans it enables you to cool multiple cards/stuff much more effectively due to larger heatsinks (radiators) compared with air cooling.
So, single card/cpu, go for custom air. its a lot cheaper and just as good.