Advice on Watercooling my Ares Video card

[cam_miles2003]

Hi

I'm planning a side project that I never got around to doing since I've been busy as hell but I'm planning on water cooling my Asus Ares 4gb video card (still brand new, never used, - been really really busy -__-)

Well any way...I plan to use two Alphacool HF 14 ATI / nVidia Smart Motion Universal VGA Blocks - Copper Edition to cool both cores of the Ares.

Here's a link to what I'm thinking I should buy:

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/15...?tl=g30c87s143

Here's an outline of the Ares with its individual parts removed

http://www.legitreviews.com/images/r...ES-image_H.jpg

Here's an outline of the exact specs and length of the waterblock

http://www.frozencpu.com/images/prod...blc-1070_6.jpg

The "universal“ compatibility claim is based on the mount with a hole spacing of 53.5 to 61.5mm.

It seems like it might just work and fit if I buy two of them and place them on separate areas of the Ares.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated on a proper liquid cooling setup just for the Ares (parts etc.) (I'm going for a closed loop system for the CPU so no problem there).

Oh and the overall parts configuration for this setup will be: (the setup seems a bit old, but all the parts are brand new and never been used, I've just been really really busy).

A Rampage 3 Extreme

24 gig of Ram memory (4x6) (I may use liquid cooling on this in the future...maybe)

120 gig SSD

A 570LX Extreme Performance Liquid Cooler for the CPU

the processor...(hmm...probably going to be an i7 980 or i7 990x)

the case....will be a problem (advice on this would be appreciated as well)

Thanks!

[MarshallR@ASUS]

I want to see it if you do it!!

You'll NEED to keep the black aluminium plate on the memory, PLX and VRM chips though (and the central fan for airflow - it cannot run passively), so make sure the block legs don't hit the plate at all.

[cam_miles2003]

I want to see it if you do it!!

You'll NEED to keep the black aluminium plate on the memory, PLX and VRM chips though (and the central fan for airflow - it cannot run passively), so make sure the block legs don't hit the plate at all.

I plan to use several Alphacool MCX one Copper Edition water blocks (plus some thermal tape to keep them in place) to cool the memory, PLX and VRM chips (unless another solution presents itself).

You can see what I'm planning to do here:

http://www.alphacool.com/product_inf...r-Edition.html

Just scroll down the page from the link above and you'll see the possible configuration I'm going for.

The Alphacool MCX one Copper Edition is pretty cheap so I can buy several of them just to make sure, then I combine those with the Alphacool MCX 10x Verteiler G1/4
(seen here)
http://www.alphacool.com/product_inf...iler-G1-4.html

so that I can distribute the coolant properly.

If I need smaller mini water blocks I can use the Alphacool MCX ram Copper Edition

(seen here)

http://www.alphacool.com/product_inf...r-Edition.html

As for the pump and reservoir solution, I plan to use the MCR-X20 Drive Rev3 Series Heat Exchangers with Integrated Pump and Reservoir (the one with 3 120mm fans)

(seen here)

http://www.swiftech.com/mcr-x20-drive-rev3.aspx

The reason I'm using this is because this liquid cooling setup has the pump, reservoir and fans integrated into one device so it reduces possible problems when it comes to the arrangement of the water blocks. I also plan to use this on a full water block for the Rampage 3 extreme as well as another water block on the 4gb x 6 slots water block I'll use for a Corsair RAM set..

Still trying to figure out what types of tubing and fixtures to use.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[sp33d3ple]

check it out: http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread...t-First-photos... just liquid cooled it and hit 975mhz with .0025v bump easy said, easier done...

[cam_miles2003]

check it out: http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread...t-First-photos... just liquid cooled it and hit 975mhz with .0025v bump easy said, easier done...

Awesome! What kind of waterblocks did you use and where can I get them? Could you also tell me what fittings you used? Please

[MarshallR@ASUS]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting!