Water cooling a 7970

If you have a reference board then you can put a full cover block on it. if its non reference then you have to use the core only blocks from ek for example. and also passive cooling on the vrm chips on the card, lots of info around the net for that.

with exception to cards such as the asus direct cu2 which have their own waterblocks.
 
It entirely depends what 7970 you plan to cool. If its reference design then any of the standard 7970 blocks will fit, some cards have blocks tailor made for them such as the Lightning, Classified, SOC, DCUII etc...
 
anthony566 said:
So are my Sapphire HD 7970 OC Boost cards Ref or not ??

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1157&pid=1481&psn=&lid=1&leg=0
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Use this site, http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/

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A quick look and I think your going to have to use a universal block and ram sinks.

If you want a full cover block you should consider getting a MSI 7970 from another store, I've checked already and the standard overclocked version can use a full cover plus you get a 3 year warranty with MSI rather then a 2 year warranty with crappy Sapphire customer service
 
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anthony566 said:
Thanks for that .....
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If you want a full cover block you should consider getting a MSI 7970 from another store, I've checked already and the standard overclocked version can use a full cover plus you get a 3 year warranty with MSI rather then a 2 year warranty with crappy Sapphire customer service
 
I'm not even sure I'm going to water cool I just wanted to dip my toe in the water so to speak :)

I'm changing a few of my case fans as I want a bit more light and spin range for air flow the rest I'm more than happy with :)
 
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