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Water cooling setup help (a newbie here)

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TheAgustin

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Hi there, I'm newbie to watercooling and would appreciate a lot you could help me out with my predicament.

Recently I setup an AMD Phenom II x6 with a Radeon HD 6790 vga, among other parts, and it started making a really loud fan noise

while playing games such as Deus Ex.

I thought it would be the CPU, but go figure, when I opened it I realized it was the Radeon's fan.

So, I'm looking for some guidelines as to what can I get to silence the vga while keeping the low temp, also keeping it

affordable ;) I think I don't need CPU cooling, the fan is being pretty silent on the cpu.

I understand little to none of what are all the components required to do this, so please be kind, explain ;)

I'm ok with water cooling. Air cooling could work for me as well if it's affordable, currently the noise the fan produces is too

high and annoying, so anything close to the sound while being idle would be amazing.

Thanks in advance guys !
Agustin
 
If it's me, I would just throw an aftermarket HSF on your GPU. Personally, I keep all my components under liquid but for someone with limited experience, Arctic Cooling makes some real nice easy to install products. Link below will take you right to the 6970 compatible stuff.

http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/assistant/vga/chip/2
 
If you are looking to keep it affordable, water cooling is NOT the way to go, especially if you are cooling your gpu (gpu blocks tend to be expensive). I mean, you might end up spending as much on the cooling setup as you did on your video card. Like Loafdogg said, an after market HSF will be easier, cheaper, and should give you the results you desire.
 
Watercooling and affordable do not belong in the same sentence, especially when GPU blocks are involved.
 
Woah guys ! That was fast !

I really appreciate your recommendations. Those arctic systems seem that would work for me, they say "virtually-silent", we'll see, but they are asking a reasonable price and that certainly would calm the noise of the fan.

I will certainly be returning here for more advise down the road, but I think I'm good to go now.

Thanks, Agustin.
 
you may be interested in looking not at teh wc world but check out Arctic cooling see if they make a cooler for your card
 
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