R9 290 Upgrade with AIO water cooling or RAIJINTEK Morpheus

[Blaz Ferlic]

Hi, I am planning to upgrade my r9 290 for better cooling and lower noise.
I have the ASUS direct CU version of the card, but the temperatures and especially the noise is really high. Before I had the ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU and I could never really hear the card.

I am now deciding on going with;
- ether the RAIJINTEK Morpheus with two Noctua NF F-12 fans or

- with the Cooler master nepton 140 XL + some heat sinks on the memory and an extra fan that blows on the card.
Any suggestion are appreciated.
I think the aio water cooler would provide a bit lower temperatures and would be a little bit more expensive. But I am nut sure about the noise.
Has anybody done something like that and has any tips.

 

[chris_igz]

Try the G10 bracket from NZXT, it seems to fit most modern GPU's. Use that with a decent single rad AIO and you will be sweet. I also have an R290 but it's a sapphire one, I am going to get that bracket and get an AIO for it 😀