CPU Water Cooler on Sapphire 260x without vrm heatsinks

[DanielC23]

I plan on buying an H60 for my Sapphire 260x and I just wanted to know if it's safe to just put the cooler on with no vrm heatsinks? I know it's not worth it price wise but the heat is very high inside my mATX case. Plus I will transfer the cooler onto my CPU once I upgrade my gpu hopefully later this year. I know This is not practical due to the price for such a low end card but this fascinates me. Thanks!

 

[uglyduckling81]

Your planning on putting a GPU waterblock on a CPU later on?

You can get hard setting thermal paste and use it too glue small heatsinks onto the memory.

edit: I mean your planning on putting a CPU waterblock onto a GPU?

edit 2: something like this.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/8x-Mini-Copper-Memory-Heat-Sink-RAM-heatsink-Cooler-Cooling-for-laptop-Computer-/121347215896
http://www.ebay.com/itm/8pcs-Lot-Micro-Small-Aluminum-Heatsink-For-XBOX360-PS-Computer-VGA-IC-Cooling-/191459271874?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c93dca4c2
http://www.ebay.com/itm/8PCS-Aluminum-IC-PC-VGA-Card-Xbox360-PS-DDR-RAM-Memory-Cooling-Cooler-Heatsinks/371111197051?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131003132420%26meid%3D2f80e13ef95c46c3bd8bcadbf13d64ae%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D191459271874&rt=nc

 

[DanielC23]

Your planning on putting a GPU waterblock on a CPU later on?

You can get hard setting thermal paste and use it too glue small heatsinks onto the memory.

edit: I mean your planning on putting a CPU waterblock onto a GPU?

edit 2: something like this.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/8x-Mini-Copper-Memory-Heat-Sink-RAM-heatsink-Cooler-Cooling-for-laptop-Computer-/121347215896
http://www.ebay.com/itm/8pcs-Lot-Micro-Small-Aluminum-Heatsink-For-XBOX360-PS-Computer-VGA-IC-Cooling-/191459271874?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c93dca4c2
http://www.ebay.com/itm/8PCS-Aluminum-IC-PC-VGA-Card-Xbox360-PS-DDR-RAM-Memory-Cooling-Cooler-Heatsinks/371111197051?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131003132420%26meid%3D2f80e13ef95c46c3bd8bcadbf13d64ae%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D191459271874&rt=nc

The cooler is meant for a CPU. I'm going to put it on my gpu and after I upgrade to another one I will remove the H60 and put it on my CPU

 

[Cristi72]

Hello,

You absolutely need to cool the VRMs, so think of an additional fan blowing towards the VRM area. Also, you will need to modify the retention bracket.

There are some solutions for using a liquid CPU cooler for a GPU (NZXT Kraken G10 for example), but they are meant for powerful GPUs, starting with R7-270x.

 

[DanielC23]

Hello,

You absolutely need to cool the VRMs, so think of an additional fan blowing towards the VRM area. Also, you will need to modify the retention bracket.

There are some solutions for using a liquid CPU cooler for a GPU (NZXT Kraken G10 for example), but they are meant for powerful GPUs, starting with R7-270x.

Ok so I have zip ties which will hold down the block. Now I'm really confused where to put the copper heatsinks could you find a picture that shows me exactly where to place all of them? I'm going to buy 8 piece set.

 

[Cristi72]

Hello,

You absolutely need to cool the VRMs, so think of an additional fan blowing towards the VRM area. Also, you will need to modify the retention bracket.

There are some solutions for using a liquid CPU cooler for a GPU (NZXT Kraken G10 for example), but they are meant for powerful GPUs, starting with R7-270x.

Ok so I have zip ties which will hold down the block. Now I'm really confused where to put the copper heatsinks could you find a picture that shows me exactly where to place all of them? I'm going to buy 8 piece set.

Check this: http://i.imgur.com/LWj03ho.jpg

The 2 GB version should already have a heatsink applied over the GPU's VRM, you will need to add heatsinks to the RAM VRM (close to the PCI-e power plug) and a fan to move some air over.