I need a way to water cool my gpu's in a limited amount of space plus recommendations of water coolers

[opio]

I have an msi mATX gaming z87 mobo that has 2 pci-e slots, in said slots I have two msi GTX 760 ITX editions. I was wondering what the best watercoolers for saving space is. I had an aftermarket VGA air cooler that worked great and I thought would at least fit on my bottom card but I was wrong, the PSU is just a little too high so I had to put the stock cooler back on, I mean, these GPU's fit great lengthwise at my 760's are itx editions, but the top card fits in like a glove and I'd like to watercool both of them, each card is 35mm thick so I wonder if I can even get a cooler to that card, is there one out here that is thick enough?

I was going to get two of these sleeves
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835146036

for the water coolers themselves, I was just going to get what is compatible with that list sleeve. I need one 120mm watercooler and one 140mm one, then on the top I want to put a 240mm for my cpu

 

[SU11YBEAR]

I don't think these sleeves will fit on the itx version of the 760,
Assuming the sleeves fit might cause issues as they are going to interfere in any two card setup, you have to insert the cooler into the slot still so going to be the height of the cooler (which normally has an integrated pump)

For a custom loop there is no full card cooler available for this design so you would need to use a universal that will only cool the chip not the vram,

Sorry but don't see a quick solution here, you would need 2 universals and probably a 240mm rad for the GPU's, 120mm or 140mm should be enough on the CPU side, if you put in both then you will have alot of available cooling but dont know your available space for that

 

[opio]

The itx version is compatible with anything the 760 ref. card is

I need a 120mm cooler because I have a space for one at the bottom of my case that can reach GPU 2, and I was thinking of mounting a 140mm watercooler on my case's side panel because I figure it'll reach GPU 1

 

[SU11YBEAR]

Ok i was just going off of http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/ for the full PCB cooler and it says that EK blocks are not.

Alright so my main concern is the height of the block on each cooler, if you have an aftermarket that is probably double width then you will need a block that is less then 40mm tall to be less then the double wide aftermarket, I cant find any details on the block heights for corsairs at the moment and internet is fighting me so cant check the other compatiable models right now, sorry i cant be more of a help

 

[humphrey502690]

You will need at the least 240 for the cards and 120 for CPU... Length wise wont matter because you can cut the tubing to size... All and all if you want a proper way I say upgrade the case. So I say no less than 360mm rad total... Loop order won't matter afte res to pump... All of the liquid will be the same temp... Or sell the cards and get a single 780 or something to save space and liquid cool that... Just my 2 cents

 

[humphrey502690]

Well I forgot to ask are you up for externally mounted rads?

 

[opio]

I don't think these sleeves will fit on the itx version of the 760,
Assuming the sleeves fit might cause issues as they are going to interfere in any two card setup, you have to insert the cooler into the slot still so going to be the height of the cooler (which normally has an integrated pump)

For a custom loop there is no full card cooler available for this design so you would need to use a universal that will only cool the chip not the vram,

Sorry but don't see a quick solution here, you would need 2 universals and probably a 240mm rad for the GPU's, 120mm or 140mm should be enough on the CPU side, if you put in both then you will have alot of available cooling but dont know your available space for that

So I ended up getting three 140mm Corsair H55's and the sleeves, you were right, the sleeves didn't fit they were too long for the GPU's BUT I just happen to have a friend who is a genius, (and has good metal working skills haha). We sawed both sleeves in half and he rounded them out so just the part that connects the watercooler to the GPU die remained, needless to say it worked like a charm, I'm lucky to have a friend who thinks outside the box, I was so disappointed when we saw it wouldn't work but then he just said, "well, we came this far, bet we could saw it in half and it'll work" we did, and it worked. But ya, so now I have my haswell i7 and two GTX 760 ITX editions that are all watercooled and 2 out of the 7 fans in my computer are noctura fans and the remaining five are fractal design silent series and 5 of said fans are controlled by my LCD touchscreen 5.25 inch drive bay fan controller so I keep them at around 60%. The only fans I have that aren't speed controlled and connected to the motherboard is the Fractal Design fan at the bottom (because it is the only fan that you can't notice the noise difference between 100% and lower) and my noctura side panel fan (because it is quiet as hell and blows directly onto my cards and I want the most air I can get onto the VRAM heatsinks I installed) the other noctura fan is my top front fan as it's the one you notice the most noise. Gotta hand it to noctua, those fans are the best one's I've ever bought as far as noise to CFM is concerned. I will be replacing my remaining fans with noctua's soon.

So it has been great and the highest temp I've seen my GPU get is 51C and that was only the top card and it was after running Firestrike in 3dmark. I'd recommend those sleeves to anyone who wants to use a CPU watercooler as a GPU cooler (just make sure you have a GPU that is long enough or a friend ((or yourself)) who is good with metalworking and has metalworking tools to properly cut the sleeve in half and round it off. Arctic makes a really good GPU watercooler too.

 

[SU11YBEAR]

Sounds awesome, you have any pics of the layout? May be a good guide for anyone who runs into the same issue

 

[opio]

I don't but I will probably be taking some pictures and posting them on my G+ page. Awesome friend though, he cable managed everything for me too, sometimes I like opening up my case just to look at it lol, it's a thing of beauty.