Waterblock Fitting Services for 5090 GPU ?

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Hi,

Would anyone please know if there are any reliable waterblock fitting services for a 5090 GPU?

I am considering buying a 5090 air cooled model and fitting it with a waterblock.
However, the thought of fitting a waterblock to it myself petrifies me as I have never removed an air cooler and replaced it with a waterblock.

If there are any members or suppliers with experience who are up to speed on the technicalities and the products to use (TIM/Pads/Liquid Metal etc..) I am happy to pay for the service.


Ths for any feedback
Rgds Bintos
 
You might find someone on here locally with experience in doing it, I’m not aware of any professional services and likely they are not as good as someone here who has done it 15 times over ;)
 
Smffy said:
You might find someone on here locally with experience in doing it, I’m not aware of any professional services and likely they are not as good as someone here who has done it 15 times over ;)
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Thank you for your reply.

Yes, that is my hope that a member relatively local who has experience is available.
I am happy to travel a reasonable distance to get it done. I am located near Stab City (Croydon, Surrey).
 
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Sin_Chase said:
FE or not? FE is quite involved, other models much simpler .
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I have not bought the 5090 card yet but will avoid the FE model so that the work is simpler.
My direction was to find out if an experienced person can fit the waterblock, once I know that I will buy a non FE 5090.
 
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Sin_Chase said:
Worth trying to find a factory waterblocked one? Are more spendy and resale is a little tricker but might not be too much different after youve paid for someone else to fit a block? Benefit is you dont risk warranty either.
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Gigabyte sell one but it's a good chunk over £3000 last I checked.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £3,307.98 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

The INNO3D GeForce RTX 5090 iCHILL FROSTBITE can be had for around £2800, although it's unfortunately not in stock at OCUK.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Worth trying to find a factory waterblocked one? Are more spendy and resale is a little tricker but might not be too much different after youve paid for someone else to fit a block? Benefit is you dont risk warranty either.
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Yes, that would be an option but I am a little sceptical that a factory fitted waterblock would be as good as one fitted personally by an experienced enthusiast.
I read a topic elsewhere in which someone had removed the factory fitted AIO from a 5090 which indicated that the fitting was not up to the standard that an enthusiast might do.
The topic inferred that the thermal pads were of poor quality and the TIM/Liquid Metal was not best applied.

I am hoping to buy a 2nd user card (non FE) and get it fitted with an appropriate water block using good spec thermal pads and TIM/Liquid Metal properly applied.

Rgds
Bintos
 
Your problem with finding an ocuk member
Near you to do it for you
Isn't that there wouldn't be one it
Would be what if they damaged it
While fitting the block?
You basically have no comeback as they're not a business
And it's a very expensive component

Really it's something you should learn
And research if you want
To do custom watercooling
Theres plenty videos available showing how
To do it i would imagine
 
Not being rude but how capable are you? If someone could video call you and help or it’s a flat no you want to be hands off? You can follow guides of course but it’s just the risk so as above if you need it to be insured then this could be tricky…
 
Bint Box said:
Yes, that would be an option but I am a little sceptical that a factory fitted waterblock would be as good as one fitted personally by an experienced enthusiast.
I read a topic elsewhere in which someone had removed the factory fitted AIO from a 5090 which indicated that the fitting was not up to the standard that an enthusiast might do.
The topic inferred that the thermal pads were of poor quality and the TIM/Liquid Metal was not best applied.

I am hoping to buy a 2nd user card (non FE) and get it fitted with an appropriate water block using good spec thermal pads and TIM/Liquid Metal properly applied.

Rgds
Bintos
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There will be no notable difference in all reality.
 
Smffy said:
Not being rude but how capable are you? If someone could video call you and help or it’s a flat no you want to be hands off? You can follow guides of course but it’s just the risk so as above if you need it to be insured then this could be tricky…
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I am quite willing to try fitting a waterblock to a 5090 myself. It seems a daunting prospect, mainly due to lack of knowledge about what are the best materials to use for Thermal Pads/TIM/Liquid Metal and what parts to pad up and cover with TIM.

I have installed Fan and AIO coolers on CPU's quite a few times and not fried one yet but that is a single lid with a rice grain of TIM.
 
Bint Box said:
I am quite willing to try fitting a waterblock to a 5090 myself. It seems a daunting prospect, mainly due to lack of knowledge about what are the best materials to use for Thermal Pads/TIM/Liquid Metal and what parts to pad up and cover with TIM.

I have installed Fan and AIO coolers on CPU's quite a few times and not fried one yet but that is a single lid with a rice grain of TIM.
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If you want the easiest option, just use the thermal pads that come with the block and use normal thermal paste and forget about liquid metal.

All you then need to do is follow the GPU block fitting instructions in the box :)
 
Not all waterblocks fit all cards, so you want to research what is available and then buy a card and block together, you can buy cards with waterblocks already fitted but that will really restrict your resale market unless it is an AIO that anyone can fit even then the number of people that want that is small also.

If you do it yourself, you can return to air when done if you struggle to sell with block attached.

Typically the people who want water will likely be selling for the next big thing when you do, so it is good to have option to pass on to normal users.

Space Monkey said:
If you want the easiest option, just use the thermal pads that come with the block and use normal thermal paste and forget about liquid metal.

All you then need to do is follow the GPU block fitting instructions in the box :)
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This, do it nice and slow, watch some vids etc, there are a few about, double checking fitment etc, as you do it, shouldn't require any real skills, just care and attention.

I wasn't very happy with my Alphacool fitment, it required better pads IMO and did not hit the same points as the air cooler, so I supplemented it with a mix on my own pads and some of the air cooler ones reused, Alphacool suggest it was unecessary and there stuff was fine and that the air cooler additional pads were in place to support the larger cooler which is not an unreasonable explanation but I did not quite trust it based on some other Alphacool issues I has seen on Youtube. Hence why I say double check fitment etc, don't assume it is correct, there are things like card revisions through a life span etc, so yeah, do it with care don't be put off :)
 
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Ideally you would want kryosheet or ptm instead of normal paste. Harder to tell if there’s pump-out on the 50 series since they got rid of the hotspot readings.
 
All water blocks come with everything you would need to fit it to a card.

There are loads of YouTube videos you can watch for tutorials.
 
I think the thing worth mentioning that has not been said is that there aren't great gains to be had from the normal user (and by that I mean some one who won't up Watts with custom firmwares and do shunt mods etc) having water, the cards are great on air, the air coolers are superb these days and really the benefits are just a cooler running card that might maintain its clocks maybe 5-10% higher with a bit less noise, you are not getting massive extra framerates etc. the chips are great at giving you that on air.

Of course water does help to move the heat out of the case rather than redistribute inside the case, my Palit 5080 would vent its heat directly over my DDR5 on air, not very desirable, on water none of that heat is in the case as it is coming out of the rads.
 
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I was worried about doing this - I bought the msi 5090 and got an alphacool waterblock.

The installation guide and color coded thermal pads made the install a breeze.
 
sandys said:
I think the thing worth mentioning that has not been said is that there aren't great gains to be had from the normal user (and by that I mean some one who won't up Watts with custom firmwares and do shunt mods etc) having water, the cards are great on air, the air coolers are superb these days and really the benefits are just a cooler running card that might maintain its clocks maybe 5-10% higher with a bit less noise, you are not getting massive extra framerates etc. the chips are great at giving you that on air.

Of course water does help to move the heat out of the case rather than redistribute inside the case, my Palit 5080 would vent its heat directly over my DDR5 on air, not very desirable, on water none of that heat is in the case as it is coming out of the rads.
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I run a custom loop for noise and a large extent keeping temperatures more reasonable under load (Not that air fooled temperaturs are dangerous mind). Long gone are any notable performance gains so any slight bump in frequencies is a silver lining rather than the ultimate goal.

5090FE at 35 Deg C under full load with 0 noise is nice!
 
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