Do I need to be liquid cooled to use the XSPC waterblock for a gtx titan?

[jdrouillard1]

I am looking into buying a titan since I have just recently purchased a triple monitor 5760x1080 setup. I want to be extra careful to maintain this titan for years to come since I look at is as a sort of future proofing method because of its VRAM.

Do I need to be running liquid cooling to use a waterblock on my titan? Also, will the evga superclocked titan be compatible for mounting?

I assume I need to buy the backplate as well to mount this.

Here is the link to the titan I will most likely be purchasing: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130899

Here is the link to the waterblock I am looking at: http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/xspctitan.html?gclid=CKSt06Xa37oCFQcSMwodY3AAjw

Also, is sidewindercomputers.com a reliable place to purchase this item from?

 

[burdenbound]

To answer your question, yes you will need some form of custom water cooling to use the water block on the graphics card. Either try and find a complete set or piece it together yourself. I don't know of any self contained water coolers for specific graphics cards.

Unless you plan on overclocking extensively you shouldn't need to water cool the titan.

I personally would look at other options though, recently the titan has fallen from the number one spot when it comes to gaming, I don't know if plan on using your machine for gaming or perhaps graphic design etc... but if you want a single card solution for gaming I would wait for third party AMD 290x cards to come out. Both the 290x and 290 perform better than the titan at the resolution you are using. Although due to the fact that AMD has not fixed their issues with multiple graphics cards at that resolution I could see if you wanted to stay with nvidia if you plan on going with a multiple card setup.

In this case I would go with the 780ti which is faster than the titan and cheaper. Although at $700 it still doesn't have the price to performance of the 290 and 290x.

In a perfect world where AMD drivers were better I would go with crossfire 290 but that is a call you will have to make.

If you need a card for graphic design/business reasons I do believe the titan is still the best one to go with.

 

[jdrouillard1]

To answer your question, yes you will need some form of custom water cooling to use the water block on the graphics card. Either try and find a complete set or piece it together yourself. I don't know of any self contained water coolers for specific graphics cards.

Unless you plan on overclocking extensively you shouldn't need to water cool the titan.

I personally would look at other options though, recently the titan has fallen from the number one spot when it comes to gaming, I don't know if plan on using your machine for gaming or perhaps graphic design etc... but if you want a single card solution for gaming I would wait for third party AMD 290x cards to come out. Both the 290x and 290 perform better than the titan at the resolution you are using. Although due to the fact that AMD has not fixed their issues with multiple graphics cards at that resolution I could see if you wanted to stay with nvidia if you plan on going with a multiple card setup.

In this case I would go with the 780ti which is faster than the titan and cheaper. Although at $700 it still doesn't have the price to performance of the 290 and 290x.

In a perfect world where AMD drivers were better I would go with crossfire 290 but that is a call you will have to make.

If you need a card for graphic design/business reasons I do believe the titan is still the best one to go with.

Thanks for your input! I was fairly sure it would need to be a liquid cooling system which I am not particularly sure is safe for me right now (I move my desktop to and from college every three months).

The card will be used primarily for gaming, but with new games coming out recommending 3gb already (Battlefield 4) I assume that number will keep rising with the next gen consoles coming out.

I will also be using this occasionally for heavy photoshop work for my job. When working I have upwards of five 1000 layer files open at a time.

While the work coming home may be seldom if ever, I still think the titan is my safest bet for not having to upgrade cards again anytime soon (unfortunately I built my pc with a gtx 770 2gb card that won't suffice with the new monitor setup). I hate the idea of having to take out a bunch of components and get rid of them and buy all new so the idea of just buying another titan for SLI when mine starts to struggle seems like a great idea to me.