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** R9 290X Watercooling Thread **

JBod said:
Mine is a mediocre water loop that has been running for about a year now. Holding 53c under full load on these GPUs pleases me, it leaves 40c headroom for added volts right? ;)
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Well I wouldn't want to be dumping that much heat into a loop that's also cooling my CPU, but whatever, it's your loop! :D
 
Well.. I have a 290x to test for some1 soon. Will put an ek block on it.

Will know if it runs hot after that. Anything under 60c is fine tbh
 
He said in op he is cooling the memory and vrm's passively using the alpenfohn heatsinks. Not ideal, but will do an adequate job until a full cover block is strapped to it.
 
Five.Stars said:
He said in op he is cooling the memory and vrm's passively using the alpenfohn heatsinks. Not ideal, but will do an adequate job until a full cover block is strapped to it.
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Actually there is a 200mm fan blowing on it as well from the case side. I just looped a bench for a bit and the heatsinks were not too hot to touch. I'd imagine the reference cooler is heating them up from the GPU core rather than cooling them down.
 
Uncle Petey said:
I know :)
I'm still waiting for the pics :p
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Happy? :p
 
Oh, right... How about HWinfo?

ED: Cheers for the pics :)
I used those sinks on my last card too. They're not bad, but they got owned by the big VRM sink.
You using akasa tape with those?
 
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Uncle Petey said:
Oh, right... How about HWinfo?

ED: Cheers for the pics :)
I used those sinks on my last card too. They're not bad, but they got owned by the big VRM sink.
You using akasa tape with those?
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Using the thermal adhesive that came with the heatsinks, HWInfo doesnt give it nor does AIDA64.
 
Uncle Petey said:
Good man! In that case, you really should've used the big boy :)

Bummer, I guess we have to wait for them to update...
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You mean that big ass strip that came with it? I couldn't quite get it to go on well enough for me to be happy with it. The screw holes certainly didn't align.
 
Who needs screw holes when you have thermal adhesive? :D




I will say that getting that off is a fair bit more difficult than the little ones due to the shape though...
 
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