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Member Reviews: EK-FC460 GTX GS/SONIC - Acetal + Nickel GPU water cooling block

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EK-FC460 GTX GS/SONIC - Acetal + Nickel GPU water cooling block review

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Pros: Works well, stylish

Cons: Fussy fitting procedure

A Water-Cooling Noob’s Review: To be quite clear, this is a good product. If properly installed it cools the Palit or Gainward 460 GTX well. The idle temperature of 33C with stock cooling gave way to an idle temperature of 28C. (Ambient temperatures during testing were low twenties.) Load temperatures of 83C gave way to temperatures around 36C. That is a big improvement. The water block certainly looks the part too. I had no leaks either. This was fitted as a separate loop using a Laing DDC 18W Pump, XSPC Laing DDC BayRes Two, XSPC RX360 radiator, and Tygon tubing. (Thanks Kel) I had no performance issues with the product at all. My only difficulty was with the assembly/installation of...
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