Water Cooling 2 Thing's, correct me if l'm wrong.

[OLDPHART]

Have just been reading up a little more on water cooling two things, please correct me if l'm wrong.

1:That a Full Cover does not make that much difference to your GPU all round performance? A GPU Block will do just fine, my case is a FTO1 both the 180mm Fan's will cool the 5870 GPU PCB when fan cover's, etc, is removed.

Playing BC2 every thing is set to high,vsnyc-false >AAx2 / AFx4, etc, according to GPU-Z Max Temp > 67'c / Fan at 30% / OC 875:1250mhZ.

2:Tubing Dia 16:10mm is fine and 16:13 does not make that much difference to temp's / performence of the loop?.

Cheers Guy's.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

I can't answer your question directly just personally, I feel more comfortable having full cover and the largest tubing available , just so I know I'm getting maximum coverage and flow rate, but i maybe be completely mislead and wrong.

 

[HW91]

1) it depends, a full block will give a better memory OC but the GPU temps will be slightly higher (although not enough to get a better OC)

2) well I use 3/8" ID 1/2" OD because it doesn't kink as easily, however I have a small case, 16:13mm should be fine in an FT01