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post #1 of 19
9/24/12 at 11:54pm
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Hello

I am quite new to watercooling and i recently rebuilt one of my computers but have run in to the problem of huge amounts of heat with both of my video cards when i am playing games at medium settings. im wondering if someone could help me figure out if watercooling it would worth the money and what i should get. i dont do overclocking at all either.

my system currently is

i7-2600k
2 gtx 570s running nvidia surround
16 gb ram
maximus 4 motherboard
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post #2 of 19
9/25/12 at 12:02am
What do you mean by huge amounts of heat? Is this all of a sudden? Did something change?

Does your system have adequate airflow?
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post #3 of 19
9/25/12 at 12:06am
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when im running games it will hit anywhere between 68c to 90c depending on the game and its been happening for a while now steadily as for air follow i got 2 200mm fans a 140 mm and a box fan on the side of it but they dont really seem to help at all
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post #4 of 19
9/25/12 at 12:32am
Let me rephrase. When I say all of a sudden, what was it like before temp wise? Were any changes made to the system recently? Is it warm in the area where the computer is? If you're talking about your GPUs 68 to 90 is a little bit high but well within spec (esp. if you're running in surround) for 5xx series Nvidia cards. Is your system clean? As in is it very dusty? Watercooling will almost (if not) always lower your temps, but there's obviously a price to go with it.
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post #5 of 19
9/25/12 at 12:47am
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i havent made any changes to the system aside from adding the 2 570s and as for the space where the computer is the average temp is about 26c for the room i also clean out all the dust about every 2 weeks or so
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post #6 of 19
9/25/12 at 12:50am
Wait, so the cards are new in your system? Then this is based on new hardware? Those temps aren't particularly high (slightly, but not dangerously, I think the 5xx series has a tmax of 105C or something). If you're unhappy with those temperatures then yes you could consider water cooling but you'd be spending around 500 to 600 between blocks for both cards and the cpu (if you want to cool that as well), tubing, fittings, pump, reservoir so on so forth.
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post #7 of 19
9/25/12 at 12:57am
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the money aspect of it doesnt really bother me at all really wanting to get the heat to go down on the cards also the noise factor is getting to be unbearable and ive been playing around with the idea of watercooling for a while now just never really knew where to start with it
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post #8 of 19
9/25/12 at 1:10am
Well in that case lol. First thing you should do is read the water cooling sticky. READ THE WHOLE THING. Make sure you know full well what you're getting yourself into. It's quickly gonna go from being a quick task to an addictive hobby lol. Once you've read through it go ahead and plan out your loop, draw it on paper and connect all the lines so you get an idea of what type of fittings your need (angled straight etc.). Once you've done that post it on the forums and we'll definitely help you from there.

Welcome to an addictive/expensive hobby.
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post #9 of 19
9/25/12 at 1:17am
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alright i will thanks for the help i do have one quick question for you the case that i have doesnt have enough room to fit a watercooling system in it so i was thinking of doing a external system how feasible is that to do as a beginner
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post #10 of 19
9/25/12 at 1:40am
I've never done it myself personally but it doesn't seem too hard. What i've normally seen is people mounting rads on the back of their cases:

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