Corsair Releases Hydro Series HG10 GPU Liquid Cooling Bracket

[btarunr]

Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance PC hardware, today announced the immediate availability of the Hydro Series HG10 A1 Edition GPU liquid cooling bracket for AMD Radeon R9 290X and 290 graphics cards. Both a bracket and a heatsink, the HG10 allows the users to attach a Corsair Hydro Series liquid cooler to their graphics card to cool the GPU and other critical circuitry, unlocking a new level of performance and cooling for their GPU.

The black anodized aluminium HG10 bracket combined with a Corsair liquid cooler is a full-coverage GPU liquid cooling solution which cools the graphics card's GPU as well as the heat-producing voltage regulator module (VRM) and video memory. The HG10 utilizes the graphics card's original cooling fan, ensuring improved compatibility with the card's fan speed and temperature monitoring features.



Paired with any Corsair Hydro series liquid cooler, the HG10 is able to easily dissipate large amounts of heat from the graphics card, dropping peak temperatures by as much as 50 degrees Celsius and at significantly lower noise levels. The extra cooling on offer can open up substantial overclocking headroom, allowing enthusiasts to extract every bit of performance from their card. In addition, the improved cooling largely eliminates the graphics card's thermal throttling of performance, resulting in a card that not only runs quieter and cooler, but faster as well.

The Hydro Series HG10 A1 Edition GPU liquid cooling bracket is designed to support all stock reference versions of AMD Radeon R9 290X and 290X graphics cards. A full list of compatible cards can be found at corsair.com. New HG10 editions compatible with NVIDIA GeForce Titan, 7 Series, and other GPUs will be available in early 2015.

Pricing, Availability, and Warranty
The HG10 A1 Edition is priced at $39.99.

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[Lionheart]

Interesting

I wonder if AIO liquid coolers for GPU's will become a thing..

 

[vega22]

about time.

was it jan or april they 1st had these on show?

dude my 290x is cooled by a h2o 920

 

[LDNL]

Why didn't Corsair just make a semi fullcover block (waterflow through the center but have the block still cover the ram and vram) + pump combo instead?

 

[GreiverBlade]

if you have to keep the "Hamster wheel" to cool the VRM ... well for me it's a no-go, hum not totally since you will not have to run it at 65% or more to keep it cool ... unlike a ref 290/290X

 

[arterius2]

What's the point of this thing... you take off a fan only to replace it with 2 more? and a huge bulk of a water block and radiator, this is really an inelegant approach to water-cooling, which defeats the whole purpose of going water-cooling in the first place.

 

[Scrizz]

What's the point of this thing... you take off a fan only to replace it with 2 more? and a huge bulk of a water block and radiator, this is really an inelegant approach to water-cooling, which defeats the whole purpose of going water-cooling in the first place.

and the purpose of water cooling is........?

 

[arterius2]

and the purpose of water cooling is........?

Ideally? I take on water-cooling pretty much for the looks these days, but reducing clutter and possibly lower noise level is a bonus. this still takes 2 slots and it has a blower fan anyways, you essentially just moved the heatsink to a different location without reducing clutter (additional pipping, pumps etc). This is different than CPU water-cooling kit because you would free the area around the CPU of clutter, but this actually increases clutter. like someone mention already, it would be better if they could remove the blower fan and have the water block cover the entire board.

 

[PLAfiller]

I like the idea, but not for high-end cards. I think it will do wonders for the mid-segment. To clarify: you take something like Thermatake Water 3.0 Performer. The radiator is 27mm thick as opposed to the "standard" 32mm. Slap in some slim fan/or two (Scythe Slip Stream/ Cooler Master Xtra Flo) . You don't need to cool the VRM at this class of cards usually.

Even the low profile segment will be fun to try. Like Sapphire 7750 for example. I think it has the current standard 53mm distance and it hits 80 degrees as soon as you fire up Starcraft2. Only thing is, make that 120mm hole in that Dell Optiplex . I'd give a shot to such a product as long as it's about 35 euro. It seems doable. Corsair had H40, it was like what? 40 bucks? It only needed a bracket and you are good to go.

 

[Casecutter]

Wow just like last Friday or Mon I ran across some early release info on this and thought yea what ever became of this?

Like other's there's a time and place for what’s a "Red Mod", but I'm not sure about this. The problem with any of these coolers is VRM’s and other tidbits aren't sufficiently cooled. While they have such component covered with thermal tape and their hope is that the flat aluminum stamping promotes enough surface for air flow, from now the stock blower fan running much slower as the chip is running so much cooler. IDK? The main VRM block is appears isolated from what might most of the blower fans best air flow. While I might go as far to say that such cooling air is in a a dead spot devoid of adequate air flow and pressure. Then those little VRM2 (I believe their designated as) that sit at the opposite end of the fan by the PCI bracket, they probably get little to no air flow as the water block/pump… well block the air flow, but tha might be improvement over stock as they gott the full blast of hot air exiting.

Then Corsair is always promoting this kit with that double radiator which is overkill. Then as they use most existing AIO solutions (like theirs depict) it means the tubes entry and exit are in an odd... "right in the middle of everything" routing.

I suppose I'll wait and see some reviews and helpfully some with thermal imaging of the board, but I don't hold much hope. While elegant in appearance I might say the Kracken G10 modified with the GELID Solutions Heatsink kit has shown great aptitude (though a little pricey for both) still has a better bet.

Without so hard hitting reviews to prove differently, I don’t see these being much.

 

[Chaitanya]

Ideally? I take on water-cooling pretty much for the looks these days, but reducing clutter and possibly lower noise level is a bonus. this still takes 2 slots and it has a blower fan anyways, you essentially just moved the heatsink to a different location without reducing clutter (additional pipping, pumps etc). This is different than CPU water-cooling kit because you would free the area around the CPU of clutter, but this actually increases clutter. like someone mention already, it would be better if they could remove the blower fan and have the water block cover the entire board.

Current AIO/brackets for CPU AIO based on Asetek designs beat the whole purpose of liquid cooling the gpu by placing those fans right back onto the gpu. CoolIT had gotten the formula correct of a VGA AIO in form of Omni series Coolers. Sadly those guys left the business and are chasing more lucrative server/datacentre market(can't blame them for that as there is more money in that market compared to gaming). Also now thanks to Swiftech's H240-X and MCR140-X you can easily make your own GPU AIO by adding a VGA block and some custom fitting and tubing.

 

[Franzen4Real]

What's the point of this thing... you take off a fan only to replace it with 2 more? and a huge bulk of a water block and radiator, this is really an inelegant approach to water-cooling, which defeats the whole purpose of going water-cooling in the first place.

Acetek has reported selling over 2 million AIO's, so I would imagine the point of this is for the same people who want the benefits of water cooling a GPU without the worry of making a custom loop. Seems like a decent and market to try to get into with a product that can't cost very much to produce, so low risk.

 

[Casecutter]

Also now thanks to Swiftech's H240-X and MCR140-X you can easily make your own GPU AIO by adding a VGA block and some custom fitting and tubing.

When I saw that MCR140-X radiator/pump module the other day, I though that's a perfect match for one of those Asus Poseidon GTX 780 with that Hybrid air/water cooler. I thought they or someone else also has a 290X with that similar type air/water cooler system, where there’s just water ports that then let you tie into your existing custom water cooler. Though you could use the MCR140-X with say a full EK water-block like PowerColor LCS R9 290X or alike, if I'm going that route I'd want to build my own full custom loop. However seeing the low entry cost (well not in the Asus ROG mark-up) and construction for such a Hybrid air/water coolers, it might be smart for an graphic card AIB and Swiftech to bundle up a kit with a card, radiator/pump and the hose, fittings coolant to construct a system.

 

[quake4toll]

Are they gonna release this for green cards?

 

[GhostRyder]

I remember hearing about this but I think I prefer the nzxt design one better overall.

 

[Chaitanya]

When I saw that MCR140-X radiator/pump module the other day, I though that's a perfect match for one of those Asus Poseidon GTX 780 with that Hybrid air/water cooler. I thought they or someone else also has a 290X with that similar type air/water cooler system, where there’s just water ports that then let you tie into your existing custom water cooler. Though you could use the MCR140-X with say a full EK water-block like PowerColor LCS R9 290X or alike, if I'm going that route I'd want to build my own full custom loop. However seeing the low entry cost (well not in the Asus ROG mark-up) and construction for such a Hybrid air/water coolers, it might be smart for an graphic card AIB and Swiftech to bundle up a kit with a card, radiator/pump and the hose, fittings coolant to construct a system.

If the card manufacturers do team up with Swiftech and make their top end SKU as a complete kit with block+MCR140-X+Tubing they will surely overcharge 40-50$ extra to the total cost and the marketing team will justify the cost by usual marketing text. Even I am thinking of going the same route as having a radiator+pump+reservoir combined into one unit does save a lot of space inside the case.

 

[BENSON519]

I don't see the point in this. Full cover with pump and rad could be nice

 

[Fx]

Interesting... To me the primary points of having watercooled components was to reduce noise while also improving the cooling delta. Looking cool was just a bonus.

 

[cadaveca]

The only thing that is missing here is a screwdriver to pull the stock cooler off. Nice job, Corsair.

 

[Piecake13]

So i have 2 of the r9 290 ref (picked one up for 210, the other for 90) and two of these blocks. I test fit a swiftech block and another block off the shelf, and they both fit and would clamp down at the right depth. So that means, instead of spending another 300 bucks in two blocks, i got the adapters for 70, two blocks for 100, and some VRAM sinks to fill the spot after the blower for like 5 bucks. I have a quad rad for CPU anyways (reusing rad from an old 8350 5.3ghz+ 2x GTX 590) so im good. ill be using LP 90's so it wont take up to much space and on my board (z87 sabertooth) there is a big enough spot between the card for the 90 fittings. If done right this can work, but not with a AIO. A kit from say swifttech for 150 or the thermaltake bigwater would work as well and be expandable. When i get everything assembled in a few weeks (gonna pick up a new cpu and redo loops and rads) ill post image if anyone is interested.