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what's up guys JC sense here and today we're going to talk about water cooling your graphics card we're going to talk about doing it the easy way for easier way and a lot cheaper obviously they're using you know complete custom water cooling loop a big expensive blocks and stuff we're going to talk about a product here available from NV XC this is the successor to the popular g10 and I've been asked to do something like this for a long time by the audience so we're finally doing it and we're going to be taking the X 42 all-in-one 140 millimeter water cooling loop and attaching that to our GPU that's essentially all those hybrid cards on the market are they're just all the one water cooling loops that are fixed on to the GPU and then they call them you know obviously water-cooled GPUs because they are but today we're going to talk about this whether or not it works and is it worth doing cooler masters master key Pro Series and keyboards offer sixteen point seven million color RGB genuine cherry switches a variety of sizes as well as surface mounted controls allowing full customization without the need for stand-alone software learn more by following the link down below so this is what you get with the ex 42 you get the 140 millimeter radiator and pump you get the USB cable mounting adapters and of course 140 millimeter fans now the G 12 is a lot more simple it's nothing more than a bracket just a regular old bracket that's designed to allow your pump to mount to the GPU of course we've got a 92 millimeter fan that blows down on your power delivery to try and help keep that cool and of course your mounting brackets here for both Nvidia and AMD so this is designed to work with I think the advertised 30 different all in water cooling loops you don't have to actually use theirs obviously they sent it you know both of these together the package for me to check out it also works with a wide range of GPUs go to their website to see what they work with but it looked like it worked with everything from like the 6000 series AMD up to present same thing with Nvidia all the way back to like I think it was the 200 series all the way up till now maybe even older don't hold me on that look at their website but here's what I'm going to do I'm going to install this day on my EVGA for the win - it's a 1080 it's the first part of the ICS and the reason why I'm doing that is I want to see whether or not we are going to be doing ourselves a disservice with things like cooling power delivery and memory because here's the thing most graphics cards today and pretty much all of them actually today have heat sinks that are contacting the power delivery as well as the memory allowing active cooling so as the air blows through the graphics cards it's also cooling those components as well when you do something like this all you have is the pump touching the GPU core and then you have this blend this blandest fan that's blowing down on bare PCB components which you're not going to be as effective as allowing to keep the transfer to something like a heatsink so allowing me to actually monitor those temperatures thank goodness the new EVGA ACX technology has nine sensors we can see obviously our GPU temperatures our memory temperatures and our power deliveries all being able to see if there's any sort of negative effect by cooling our GPU but then leaving those components out by removing the heatsink so right now I've actually had this test going for at least a half hour we're running a heav'n benchmark 1440p 8 X MSA a tessellation and all that it turned on our GPU core is at 74 that's actually pretty good but our power delivery looks like 69 69 68 72 and 73 so a range of 69 to 73 let's call that an average of 71 right set math yeah we'll just call 71 as the average then our memory is ranging from 54 61 and 73 the closer that memory chip is to the power delivery so the memory on that side is hotter that's why there's neighboring component being warmed up by power delivery so that's our baseline so we're going to do now is we're going to take this install it and compare it cold comparing two tracks it's science so far we've got everything installed but as you can see we were getting into Windows but then after a few seconds it would just go into a black screen and after if you restart to reinstall the driver this is what I'm getting now so I'm not sure if maybe it's on there too tight I don't know so we're going to now is where I take it apart and let's see what it looks like in there make sure thermal compounds good make sure we're not crushing it yeah I'm not full when you've got something that's meant to be Universal I don't know if that something that could have happened so let's find out what I want to check to is see what's happening with the thermal compound I want to see how well it's spreading there's actually another channel out there a smaller youtuber by the name of Jose tech actually watched his video on this before doing this because he did this and he mentioned that there was a thermal paste spreading issue with the pre-applied stuff I don't know if there's maybe some sort of physical damage that might have occurred oh well okay that's a problem we obviously got zero thermal transfer there now I did put the faceplate on here because I wanted to maintain the faceplate cooling as best I could for the vrm and the memory it is actually mounted though against the PCB so the PCB is not causing an issue here where maybe the bracket isn't mounted all the way down it is indeed touching the PCB so if you get in there real close you can see that if you look back here there are no gaps there so it is indeed touching the PCB and let me go ahead and stop you right there what's up guys editing J here haven't been here in a while the smarter of the two days recording J is dumb because while reviewing this footage it's actually pretty damn obvious why it wasn't working you see these four tabs right here yeah these four tabs are actually contacting the bottom of the pump which is keeping it from making any contact whatsoever from the GPU died so if I actually had my Dremel on hand like a you know self-respecting moderate any sort would then and could attack these pork heads off and everything would have been fine so anyway disregard what I say moving forward about not being able to use the front plate or the back plate you could but we still got some pretty interesting results in this video so keep watching clearly what we were seeing that was the GPU going please stop trying to murder me to death but what I'm gonna do right now with just these two screws which are tightened all the way down and don't want to look and see what kind of spread we're getting now so yeah as you can see we're still not getting it's not actually getting any spread on there well the only the other thing I could think now let's take the face plate and the back plate off it is touching the face plate a little bit if I actually had a dremel here do I have my Dremel here now we take a home loan because I could have Dremel that out slightly so it it's down there a little bit all right the good news is I didn't kill it I was afraid I might have killed it by forcing it to turn on over and over and over again when it was clearly not getting any cooling whatsoever and then that white line is never a good thing but check this out we are overclocked the exact same overclock settings though that were on the air-cooled test the difference is it's staying at 20 114 megahertz because our core is staying at 47 see well overclock so there's no complaint there but obviously my concerns about the vrm and memory cooling were unfounded even though we lost the front plate in the back plate with all these heat pads spreading up the heat on this face plate we lost the pin fin design and all the direct air flow on there even though we just have a 92 millimeter fan blowing directly on bare PCB components check this out our memories at 49 58 and 64 so that came down quite a bit and I'll put up what the previous temperatures were in case you forgot so I came down quite a bit from where we were on air cooled and then our power delivery look at 58 60 to 59 65 and sixty so although it didn't come down a lot it came down nonetheless we removed cooling components just added their airflow and it came down so that's a good thing anyway here's the point of this if you have a graphics card that you like and you want a water cooler and you don't want to spend the hundreds and hundreds of dollars it takes to do a custom loop you can do a solution like this you can take the G 12 and you can put your favorite a i/o on there maybe you have one laying around or buy one of the competitor i OS head to their website to make sure that's compatible for you go there like 30 they're compatible with this and you can attach it to your graphics card and get a massive reduction in temperatures on something that's already performing really good like the air cooler that you get with the for the wind to card yeah you can even improve upon that the downside is it doesn't look as pretty because there's no backplate on there but we could have made that work if I had my Dremel here we could have dremeled out the corners and open that whole lot more and then it would have interferes with the bracket that's something I would recommend doing for yourself if you're comfortable with that the other thing too is speaking of for the wind graphics cards this is a 1080 for the win - it's the icx card we took a look at last year but if you want your very own graphics card I'm giving away right now a GTX 1080p eye for the win 3 this is EVGA triple fan solution again has icx technology we did a review on that you guys can check it out here I'm getting one it is away so this make sure you subscribe to the channel in the description of the video I'm linking you will see all of the information on how to enter and when we're going to be announcing the winner on both Twitter and a video but anyway yeah you guys be at your very own so there is you guys tell me what you think it's been running now for about oh about a half hour or so and I mean it's not the prettiest thing to look at the perspective you would look at it in a case to look better than I'm looking at it here on this upright test bench but hey it's water-cooled is performing well and we're still running at 20 114 megahertz check that look at look at that Nick it didn't rattle at all it's nice steady core speed 20 114 man can't get those kinds of speeds with the 1080p eye but this is still a faster card anyway guys time to go thanks for watching and as always I'll see you in the next I'm glad I didn't kill it though seriously I've been sad