Liquid Cooling system

Feras Kh

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Greetings!
I'm willing to get a Graphics Card Radeon R9 290X to add to my current system but I was concern about two things.
1st: The power required, is my PSU with 720W has sufficient wattage to carry the load or not ?
2nd: I heard that this card has issue with heating and the temperature reaches around 90 degree.
so I was thinking about getting a liquid cooling kit.
I've been through alot of threads and sites and all of them suggesting a customized kits which I don't want.
I want it to be simple not complicated.
I was thinking about something but I wonder if it will work.
If I could make a cooler to my CPU & GPU with a Hydro Series™ H100i .
I know this is designed for CPU only but if I could get an extension tube from the CPU and connect it to the GPU (I will need a GPU block) and then to the radiator to make a loop similar to the customized kits but with less complex.
I'm concern also about leakage of water if I could do this with preventing leakage from happening

My PC components :
CPU: AMD FX 9370
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
Memory: 1X 8GB 1600 Corsair XMS
Fans: 2 Corsair
Storage: 1 SSD with 128GB & 1 HDD Seagate with 2TB
PSU: Gigabyte 720 Watt

I hope the idea is clear and someone could help me with that.
Thanks
 
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The answer about the power requirements is "it depends". This is an odd situation. I looked up the specifications on the top four or five contenders. Only two reported minimum power supply requirements at all, and they were different. First my favorite (SAPPHIRE TRI-X OC 100361-2SR Radeon R9 290X) requires 750 watts. The only other one that specifies a minimum power supply was Gigabyte. They stated the minimum at 600 watts. So I guess that the minimum is 600 -750 watts?????

The R9 290X reference cards are terrible at cooling. In my opinion they are paperweights waiting to happen. The non-reference R9 290X cards are much better at cooling (Sapphire in particular). The h100i isn't designed to be modify friendly. There is a...
The answer about the power requirements is "it depends". This is an odd situation. I looked up the specifications on the top four or five contenders. Only two reported minimum power supply requirements at all, and they were different. First my favorite (SAPPHIRE TRI-X OC 100361-2SR Radeon R9 290X) requires 750 watts. The only other one that specifies a minimum power supply was Gigabyte. They stated the minimum at 600 watts. So I guess that the minimum is 600 -750 watts?????

The R9 290X reference cards are terrible at cooling. In my opinion they are paperweights waiting to happen. The non-reference R9 290X cards are much better at cooling (Sapphire in particular). The h100i isn't designed to be modify friendly. There is a new cooler master that is similar to h100i but which is designed to be able to add a GPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103196.

Have you seen this article on toms hardware/ graphics cards?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cryovenom-r9-290-water-cooling-review,3756.html
 
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