Stren

Thank you for the detailed reply, its much appreciated.

When you say you used thermal pads for all the blocks I am assuming you placed extra pads as shown here in red on the Aqua block or have I miss understood you? If so what thickness of pads did you use? Do you think the temps would of been higher if you didn't place the pads here?




One thing I have noticed is that Aqua is the only block not to provide pads for this area and from memory every other gpu block I have used has always had pads in this area.

With regards to VRM temps I am not really concerned about the shelf life of the card but more of limiting my overclocking headroom if the VRMS are running hot. If this has no real effect on my overclocking headroom then I am not too concerned if the VRMs run 10-20c hotter than another block as they should be allot cooler than what they would be if I was running stock air cooling. It has been this thought that has been running constantly through my mind and one reason why I haven't added the block to my card. I actually have a GTX 780 and I want to get the best possible overclock out of it.

Thanks in advance.