Question about VGA blocks

Gertford · 10 Mar 2013 at 12:56

Just a bit confused here guys.

Just because a waterblock says it fits say, a 7950, doesn't technically mean it'll fit EVERY 7950 on the market, does it?.. I'm looking put my system under water in a few months so just looking around at all the different stuff at the moment and I need a couple of decent vga full cover blocks for my two HIS IceQ Turbo 7950s.

GoogalyMoogaly · 10 Mar 2013 at 13:07

I believe it should fit any reference design 7950 (unless it a special 7950 block? Think EK used to do special ones for some ASUS and MSI cards).

http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/ may help.

mjones1 · 10 Mar 2013 at 13:07

If your card looks like this then your board is reference meaning any normal 7950 block will work on your gpu.

Gertford · 10 Mar 2013 at 13:37

Thanks for the help. Made everything so much clearer.

chris-82 · 11 Mar 2013 at 11:13

I'm also looking into this and have a gigabyte 7950 wf3 is that a reference 7950 or? Can I just use a 7950 full waterblock on this card or?
It has the 2x4 power connectors.

Gertford · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:32

Chris, looking on cooling configurator.com it looks like it is an AMD reference card.

http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/step1_complist?gpu_gpus=622

It says Rev 1.0 though so if there's a Rev 2.0 somewhere it doesn't have it on there.

chris-82 · 12 Mar 2013 at 13:46

Thanks gertford.
I believe I have the revision one due to me having the two 6 pin powers as I believe the revision two has the 1x6&1x8 pin.
So any 7950 block should fit fine then if I have revision 1?
Anyone know what those aqua computer blocks are like?