Re: R9 295X2 Crossfire vs Gigabyte Waterforce
2014/12/20 12:23:59
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bcavnaugh
I wonder why no one made a card that has a standard Water Block install and not the custom one that is installed.
I wonder if you could cut the tubing and put then in a standard Water Loop?
yes you could cut the tube and put it on a larger radiator, but the pump is integrated so its a bit of a moot point.
They dont want to drop an open water cooled card on the market without a radiator because of the lack of knowledge lots of pc guys still have. Heck our "teacher" in college messed up more than one mobo because he claimed the water cooling on the chipsets were optional despite only having a dinky copper block with an in and an out on them and the ones with huge heatsinks still ran hot.
This is all without getting into issues of running dirty or wrong coolants, having to cover leaks that the end user caused not putting fittings in properly and leak testing.
Giving a pre-made watercooling solution absolves the company of many of these issues right off the bat.
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