I recently built a computer that has one eVGA Geforce 7800 GTX video card. What im confused about is water cooling set ups. The fan and heatsink are screwed on the card with these square type screws. I'm new to water cooling and im wondering, when i buy a GPU block, do i remove the fan somehow? Do i even remove it? Are certain water cooling set ups not compatible with this card? can someone explain in depth about this.
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Confusion with liquid cooling...
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To mount a waterblock you have to fully remove the existing cooling. This includes the heatsink itself as well as the fan. For a 7800GTX, just about every waterblock out there should be compatable with it (aside from full-coverage blocks).
As far square-type screws go, I really have no idea what your talking about. Being that a square screw would be impossible, your not going to find any on your video card. For whatever your trying to describe, a picture will say alot more than words
As far square-type screws go, I really have no idea what your talking about. Being that a square screw would be impossible, your not going to find any on your video card. For whatever your trying to describe, a picture will say alot more than words
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Deschain said:
I assume then what you thought they were were torx screws. In which case, no. Every screw on your card is a phillips screw. IIRC, there are four screws that require a mini-screwdriver, but the rest should all be standard.
When you take it apart, just make sure to do it carefully, and remember how you did it. Being that your Evga card allows you to use aftermarket cooling without voiding your warrenty, your going to want to remember how to put it back together properly should you need to RMA. Evga charges a fee ($15 I believe) if you don't put it back together properly before sending it in.
Also, make sure you clean off your card well. The crappy thermal paste-ish stuff that Nvidia uses on the memory just sucks. It's like thermal-webbing... and its rather messy.