Alphacool Starts GPU Water Cooler Customization Service

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Alphacool might have just found a way to make DIY water cooling a little cheaper.

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[wysiwygbill]

I certainly like this better than gluing individual heat sinks to individual chips and hoping they don't fall off and hit the motherboard. Still, I'm not sure it's that much of an improvement if you do use a standard high end card and have a cystin water cooling loop.

Now, replace the standard waterblock with one connected to a sealed loop and I think that might be a good alternative. Replacing the waterblock, pump, and the radiator is even worse than replacing just the block.

Closed loop coolers have even less availability than waterblocks for video cards and they invariably have those heatsinks on the individual chips I mentioned.

 

[DarkSable]

No kidding? That's pretty awesome.

I strongly disagree with the poster above if I'm reading them correctly - why are you wanting the graphics card to have a closed loop attached?

 

[wysiwygbill]

I've had both types of cooling loops and the custom loop with koolance pumps, etc. required too much maintenance to flush/replace fluids, etc. Also, I like a smaller case now and the sealed loop with a single 120mm radiator should be sufficient if air cooled is. I replace the radiator fans with Noctua high-pressure fans for any radiators and just run them at 100% all the time. That said, I haven't had much luck ever finding a sealed loop for my video cards. Inno3D usually releases them for the current high end but are only in Europe.