Hello,
I've never water cooled before but have used AIO's for about 10 years or so and have really enjoyed the benefits of them(specifically Corsair Units). I am currently waiting for the Nvidia AMD Graphics cards to sort themselves out and will probably be picking up one flavor of those in the future not sure which yet.
I saw that several manufacturers are coming out with versions that will have an AIO built in but also some with water blocks where you can build your own cooling for them. Since Corsair has the Hydro X now I figured well maybe I will look into that.
I have been researching a lot and basically everything I have been seeing is whole systems where it is the CPU and graphics card etc in the Loop. Well I was thinking of just buying parts and water cooling one of the Graphics Cards that comes with the water block on it by itself since I already have an AIO on the CPU that I like.
Lets just use the 3080 or 6800XT Cards as an example. Originally I was thinking a 140mm Radiator but I see a lot of the AIO graphics card manufactuers are using 240mm Rads so I have space for a 280mm Radiator in my case so figured I would just use that along with the XD3 Pump/Reservoir and whatever tubing fittings etc I need. I don't really care about RGB Effects to be honest and I am not sure if using the XD5 would be of any benefit. I believe I would have room for it in my case if needed.
I Guess my main question is does this sound stupid, is it a waste of money, am I missing something? I would just like to get some opinions since my Water cooling knowledge is limited to only AIO at this point.