WEBVTT 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:12.000 adata xpg V2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:16.240 check the link in the video description for more details welcome to the ultimate 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:22.119 video card water block installation guide right here we have nus GeForce GTX 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:25.640 Titan and step one guys is for the love 00:00:22.119 --> 00:00:27.800 of whatever you believe in please test 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:31.560 the card before installing a water block on it because it's an awful lot of work 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:34.200 to take it apart put it back together take it apart and then put it back 00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:38.440 together when you find out it doesn't work after you've put a water block on 00:00:36.239 --> 00:00:42.520 it make sure you're working at a safe anti-static workstation in our case 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:46.520 we're using a modm from Mod right next lay out everything you're going to need 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:52.079 so Tools in this case a Philips head screwdriver next is Hardware so in this 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:55.920 case our graphics card as well as all the pieces that were included with our 00:00:53.760 --> 00:01:00.160 water block itself a little bin for screws it's a disaster if you lose those 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:04.720 isopropyl alcohol as well as something to clean thermal compound off with and 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:07.880 last but not least guys instructions I don't care who you are if you're not 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:11.799 reading the instructions for a water block you're doing it wrong it's very 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:16.320 important because sometimes there will even be last minute revision notices 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:21.079 posted on the instructions step four remove the stock heat sink before you 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:24.280 start I recommend taking pictures so that if you have to put it back together 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:28.240 you're going to have a point of reference to use later 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.840 on 00:01:32.119 --> 00:01:38.840 as you remove screws put them somewhere safe this is incredibly important 00:01:37.320 --> 00:01:42.159 because whether you're selling your graphics card down the road or whether 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:47.960 you have to send it in for a warranty repair you may need to be able to put 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:47.960 that stock cooler back 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:53.560 on always be sure that you've removed 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:58.920 all the screws before attempting to take the heat SN off sometimes there can be 00:01:55.880 --> 00:02:00.960 one left that you didn't spot before or 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:07.200 one that's a little bit tricky to find such as the one that holds the card onto 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:07.200 the io panel right 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:14.160 here another couple of spots where you might find tricky screws are 00:02:14.440 --> 00:02:20.400 here those are pretty tight remove those with a different screwdriver and then 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:24.760 I've sometimes found ones at the back of the card that need to be removed as well 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:28.959 but that's not the case with the Titan these two do need to go though one thing 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:33.040 to watch out for as you're removing screws is not all the screws in the 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:37.800 graphics card are the same so either with pictures or by labeling them as you 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:41.879 go make sure you keep track of what goes where remember it could be 2 to 3 years 00:02:40.239 --> 00:02:46.760 by the time you have to reassemble this thing so once all the screws are removed 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:51.239 pull the PCB away from the heat sink with a twisting motion rather than with 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:55.959 a pulling motion to ensure that you don't pull any RAM modules off of the 00:02:54.040 --> 00:03:00.319 PCB as you go there we 00:02:58.040 --> 00:03:05.360 go carefully remove any fan 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:09.239 headers or LED light headers without damaging the 00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:19.519 connectors take all of the thermal pads that are still attached to the card and 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:21.280 put them back on the cooler this helps 00:03:19.519 --> 00:03:23.879 you keep them safe and in the right place during 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:32.040 storage next put the card aside for now 00:03:29.480 --> 00:03:36.519 and and put all of the screws back exactly where they went into the stock 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:45.720 cooler step six is the same as one of the other steps please for the love of 00:03:41.239 --> 00:03:48.120 everything RTM read the manual this 00:03:45.720 --> 00:03:53.560 particular water block comes with two different thicknesses of thermal pads 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:59.239 read the manual and you will know why don't read the manual and you could end 00:03:55.200 --> 00:04:01.040 up frying your GPU that serious guys 00:03:59.239 --> 00:04:06.439 step seven seven is to clean the existing paste off of the GPU core I 00:04:03.959 --> 00:04:12.200 usually use toilet paper for the first round as well as 99% isopropyl 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:20.880 alcohol flip it over for a clean 00:04:17.880 --> 00:04:23.680 side and take another run at 00:04:20.880 --> 00:04:28.720 it then as a last Finishing Touch once you've dried all the alcohol 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:32.240 off of it it's never a bad idea to take a lintree cloth in this case I'm just 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:38.000 going to use my sleeve cuz I don't have one handy and ensure that there are no 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:42.600 toilet paper bits left on the GPU itself that can affect cooling it's also never 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:46.880 a bad idea particularly for some configurations where you're going to be 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:50.720 using small heat sinks on the RAM or vrm components to do a quick pass of those 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:55.400 ones cuz there might be a little bit of oily residue left on them that would 00:04:53.199 --> 00:05:01.400 cause additional thermal adhesives that you put on afterwards to not stick 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:06.520 correctly now because we read the manual we know to use the 7 thick thermal pads 00:05:04.280 --> 00:05:11.479 instead of the one thickness thermal pads because this one is for most cases 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:15.919 but because of manufacturing tolerance issues with some gpus you might need to 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:19.840 add a slightly thicker thermal pad for you know these memory modules or these 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:23.639 ones where this one doesn't quite make contact but if you use this one in the 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:28.840 first place it could hold the block so far away from the card that the GPU 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:32.880 itself doesn't get adequately cooled now 00:05:28.840 --> 00:05:34.520 what we'll need to do is cut to size so 00:05:32.880 --> 00:05:40.199 you can either measure this or hold it up against the right spot or just kind 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:43.880 of eyeball it thermal pad 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:45.880 strips remove the backing from both 00:05:43.880 --> 00:05:52.039 sides this is very important because if you don't do that then your parts will 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:55.680 overheat so there's one piece and a 00:05:52.039 --> 00:05:55.680 second piece there we 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:02.720 go then apply these to all of the parts 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:07.440 indicated by the instruction manual in this case it comes on a separate piece 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:11.479 of paper that indicates exactly where all the thermal pads go once you've cut 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:11.479 them to 00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:25.880 size in the case of this water block we need thermal pads not only on the CPU 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:27.680 block itself but also on the aluminum 00:06:25.880 --> 00:06:33.720 back plate aluminum aluminum 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:36.120 aluminium as they say in some 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:41.639 territories not in Canada that's not even a Canadian accent 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:44.080 which really begs the question why did I say it at 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:59.080 all next up is to apply new thermal 00:06:56.280 --> 00:07:03.840 compound to the GPU itself you can use the included thermal compound in this 00:07:00.919 --> 00:07:07.759 case we will be but you can get better quality aftermarket thermal compounds a 00:07:06.280 --> 00:07:12.160 lot of the time than the stuff that tends to get included with these blocks 00:07:10.479 --> 00:07:18.720 uh my personal favorite thermal compound is IC 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:18.720 Diamond uses like diamonds and 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:26.360 stuff for gpus I do tend to use a little bit of a different methodology than for 00:07:23.520 --> 00:07:31.599 CPUs I tend to spread out the compound a bit more because they tend to be a bit 00:07:28.599 --> 00:07:33.319 larger and I tend to put on a little bit 00:07:31.599 --> 00:07:37.639 more this is a non-conductive thermal goop so I'm not too worried about it 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:41.919 getting sort of over the edges here and causing a short for this next part I 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:45.800 recommend taking the water block and putting it on something that is raised a 00:07:43.840 --> 00:07:52.879 little bit above the surface of your work area it's important to give room for the 00:07:50.080 --> 00:07:57.400 rear iio to overhang the surface that you're working on line up the block 00:07:55.159 --> 00:08:02.199 carefully with the mounting holes in the back of the card see this you can just 00:07:59.080 --> 00:08:04.599 VIs visually check as you put it down 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:09.360 then once you have everything aligned just going to poke my head in here to 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:10.919 make sure I've got it there we go I 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:14.120 would press it down then you're actually going to 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:18.879 remove it this allows you to check on the 00:08:17.280 --> 00:08:23.280 thermal pads to make sure that everything was making adequate contact 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:27.759 and gives you a pretty good look at the spread of the GPU thermal paste this 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:32.360 looks all right by the time we crank this down tight 00:08:29.919 --> 00:08:36.680 that should be spread out just fine so we're going to put that back on and 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:40.719 we're ready to tighten her down the aluminum back plate goes on before we 00:08:38.719 --> 00:08:46.480 put on the screws because many of them actually go through 00:08:42.640 --> 00:08:49.040 it there we are and this particular 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:53.320 block comes with optional plastic washers to keep the screw heads from 00:08:51.640 --> 00:08:57.160 scratching the top of the aluminum back plate however I'm not too worried about 00:08:54.959 --> 00:09:01.839 that and I would rather the clean look of the screws directly through the back 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:07.360 plate to having those plastic washers in everything goes in lightly to start very 00:09:04.800 --> 00:09:11.000 very lightly to start we don't start cranking things tight until all the 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:16.000 screws are in I recommend starting with the GPU screws themselves in a cross 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:20.279 pattern before moving on to the ones all over the rest of the card now that 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:24.200 everything's in Loosely we're ready to start tightening things down you don't 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:29.360 want to Wrench It super tight remember that's a fragile graphics card under 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:33.040 there but you also want to make sure that everything's making good contact 00:09:30.959 --> 00:09:38.320 with the thermal interface material on both the aluminum back plate and on the 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:40.760 GPU water block itself this next part is 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:44.760 totally personal preference guys but you're going to have to get some 00:09:41.680 --> 00:09:46.320 fittings for your GPU block most of them 00:09:44.760 --> 00:09:50.920 well pretty much all of them these days use G1 qu threads which means as long as 00:09:49.160 --> 00:09:57.800 you get G1 quter fittings you should be good to go in our case we're using some 00:09:52.880 --> 00:09:59.839 coolant 3/8 in ID 5/8 in od compression 00:09:57.800 --> 00:10:05.600 fittings and the these you have the option of either installing on the top 00:10:02.880 --> 00:10:09.160 of the card so here or you can take out the plugs on the bottom and install them 00:10:07.640 --> 00:10:12.480 here you don't want to put them both fittings on one side CU then it'll go 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:16.000 right through without cooling anything but as long as you put one either here 00:10:14.040 --> 00:10:19.959 or here and the other either here or here the water will pass through the 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:25.640 card so this gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of how you connect 00:10:22.640 --> 00:10:27.120 the tubing to your graphics card so 00:10:25.640 --> 00:10:33.079 there you have it guys now you've installed the water block on your graphics card this yields better 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:39.480 temperatures and it can with GPU Boost 2.0 yield better performance as well as 00:10:36.800 --> 00:10:42.680 a different overall look in terms of the Aesthetics of the card now whether you 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:47.839 prefer the stock cooler on something like a GTX Titan or the water block look 00:10:45.880 --> 00:10:52.320 is totally up to the individual but I personally don't find that there's much 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:56.680 that's sexier than a couple of graphics cards or even more than that water 00:10:54.040 --> 00:11:00.240 cooled next to each other in an SLI or Crossfire configuration thanks for 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:04.079 checking out our ultimate 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