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mukitbinazad

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hi,
is space an important thing in terms of watercooling?
i am building my rig with 4x 7970's on the asus rampage 4 extreme...with ek blocks attached to them,there is very little place over my middle grey pcoe slot..its a x16 slot working as x8...i was planning on putting a physx card there..would it be a good idea as there is so little space?the 7970's and blocks attached to them probably will take upto two slots....
i was planning on using this on the middle slot
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130757
would i be able to install it?
 
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ok if you use the new block than you will get the physics card in there no problem.

the rad space is the key here, if you have about 4 inches of space for each rad, with a total of 6 to 8 inches between them than you will be fine. less than this and you risk pulling hot air from one rad through the other drastically reducing its ability to remove heat from the water.
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That looks to be a single slot card with the block, so it would technically only occupy a single PCI-e slot. If you have an open slot, your Physx card should fit.

I'm not certain that a Physx card is going to net you any performance increase, especially if you are going to run 4x 7970's.
 
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in terms of blocks being right on top of each other, no it will not bother the blocks to be that close to each other. I would not suggest doing the same thing with radiators as this can affect the performance of a water loop.
I do not know the configuration of your motherboard so I can not say that you can add another card on top of the 4 you want to place in there already. the blocks seem to be 1 and 1/4 slots in thickness with the card attached so if the board configuration is two slots space two slots of PCI-E than you might get all the video cards but not the physics card as the video cards will be a tight fit all ready maxing the limits of the slots space.
 
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can you please check this mobo out and tell me whether the cards will fit or not?
its a bit complicated for me to understand all that..lol
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_2011/Rampage_IV_Extreme/
and i had asked a q.earlier about the rads...
the rads are going to be mounted like this,....
FAN;RAD;FAN--CLEARENCE--FAN;RAD;FAN

the rads are in pushpull....so if i put the rads side by side,would there be any problem
??as you have mentioned,will it be affecting my loop?
 
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i also thought that this card was single slot..but after seeing some more pics...i think that its 1.5 slot card...could you compare that card and this card and see if that card is single slot or not??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130665
 
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This image shows me it's a single slot:

14-130-665-Z02
 
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ok if you use the new block than you will get the physics card in there no problem.

the rad space is the key here, if you have about 4 inches of space for each rad, with a total of 6 to 8 inches between them than you will be fine. less than this and you risk pulling hot air from one rad through the other drastically reducing its ability to remove heat from the water.
 
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yes,i know that its single slot..i asked you to compare this and the 1st link to find out if the 1st link gpu is single slot or not...the waterblokcs seems a bit thicker in the 1st link..do you think that the 1st link gpu is single slot?
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Technically a 1 slot, but more like a 1.25 slot...maybe 1.5.

Are you not able to look at the images and determine for yourself?
 
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lol..i determined it myself but when you said that it was looking like it was 1 slot,i was like :??:
as the ultra classified is better than the ftw..i wouldve gone with the ulltra classified but ass its 1.25 slots i had to give it up but when you said that it was single slot i had to ask... 😀
 
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there is tons of space in the heat exchanging chambers of the Caselabs Sth10 case that am gonna be using....its not like a cosmos 2..lol
 
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Is there truly only 1 space for each PCI-e slot on your board? I'm not here to tell you what you should or shouldn't do, but I don't know why you'd need 4x 7970's for (certainly not games)...I suppose F@H would be about the only thing viable to utilize them.

Personally, I'd go with the option that allows you to actually fit the cards, not the 'faster card' as you can easily overclock them if you really wanted to...but why would you need to when running 4x 7970's? I'm starting to question the logic in this build.
 
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the 7970+ek+single slot bracket would take upto one slot right?
this is the mobo..
http://www.asus.com/websites/Global/products/r7FZemJak3vMbWHg/0Mog5wgDnlecls2g_500.jpg
there is single slot spacing between each slot and between the 2nd and 3rd red slot thare is a grey slot..if its used than there is no space in the middle....i will able to connect the 4 7970's using 2x ek bridges(dual slot)..but the gtx 580 will be used in the middle/..but its blokced there..so how will i be able to get the fittings there as there is no space..????:/
 
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the only answer I have for you is this, do not water cool the physics card. it is not the it would be impossible, it is that the difficulty in finding and block for a different type card that will match up with the others with regards to the water ports might be impossible, meaning that would have to make your own.
 
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yeah i understand that....even if i could find wb's,i coudnt link em as there isnt any space between the cards...i cant even use single slot spacing...only if the asus r4e was a htpx board with multiple slots......🙁...this totally screwed me up...🙁....if i use a physx card that is high end and single slot and if i dont watercool it,would it be a problem as the gpu will be air cooled in a very small space and there is literally 2 intake fans in my build as all the fans and space is dedicated to the rads???would the aircooling cause problems to my other components??????
 
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the blokc is attached to the gtx 580...its the gtx 580 ftw hydrocopper 2...and the reason behind using a physx card is amd has no native physx like technology except opencl...even when you are using quad 7970's,your fps is gonna suck even at dx9 games that are physx heavy...the fps drops way down from its average in the physx scenes of some games like batman ac
 
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