Watercooling Evga 580 Block

[AoE]

Started research into watercooling, basically its been brough to my attention that I may have some trouble getting a evga 580 water block? any recommendations I think i'll be going with an EK Kit, but dont include gpu blocks

[longweight]

Can you not just buy it from EVGA?

[thetrashcanman]

This block will work mate http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ek-fc...plusen-(nickel)

[AoE]

Originally Posted by thetrashcanman

This block will work mate http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ek-fc...plusen-(nickel)

thanks man, will this work for certain? and do you know if the card you sold me or both of them had heatspreaders? apparently some 580s dont as evga changed the profile of the processor slightly

[thetrashcanman]

Originally Posted by AoE

thanks man, will this work for certain? and do you know if the card you sold me or both of them had heatspreaders? apparently some 580s dont as evga changed the profile of the processor slightly

Yeah because EVGA are a bunch W**KERS! all cards that had torx's instead of normal screws had no Intergrated Heat Spreader on them, and yes mate that will work for definite

[AoE]

Originally Posted by thetrashcanman

Yeah because EVGA are a bunch W**KERS! all cards that had torx's instead of normal screws had no Intergrated Heat Spreader on them, and yes mate that will work for definite

did you have a block on it before selling? need to for 100% man before I buy this?, need it to make contact with processor.

[thetrashcanman]

Originally Posted by AoE

did you have a block on it before selling? need to for 100% man before I buy this?, need it to make contact with processor.

No I didn't mate, they where never watercooled and just read the description of the block on scan's website if your don't believe me chum

[AoE]

ahh i see it now, IHS_less cards

[thetrashcanman]

Originally Posted by AoE

ahh i see it now, IHS_less cards

That's it, as for the rest of your watercooling gear, what else you thinking of doing, what case you using and you going with compression fittings or barbs?

Oh and did you try overclocking the card?

[IvanIvanovich]

If you can't get the evga branded hydro copper blocks and actually want them, you might be able to get the plain swiftech ones, they are the same thing. if you wanted to go a cheaper route, and have gpu block that you can use on your next card, swiftech also do a pretty decent looking full cover heatsink to use with a universal block.
I am still skeptical of EK nickle plated. I know they say they have it sorted but... I would still stick to copper myself if buying EK.
Heatkiller blocks look pretty good too, might have a look at them as well if you haven't.

[Bladesingerz]

If you want to be sure the EK block will fit on your card you can use http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/ to be sure