Corsair CB-9060005-WW Hydro Series HG10 N970 Edition Cooling Fan

Super happy with this on my PNY GTX 970! Stock blower fan started making some noise, this kit fit perfect with zero PCB bending like I've read elsewhere- must be a new version.GPU temp dropped from 85C to 45C with a Corsair H60 I had laying around. A delta of 40C for $40 is a STEAL in my book. Overclocked the card (no hope before) and temp doesn't top 50C.I can't seem to find my VRM temperatures. I am slightly concerned about those with this design, although there is a perfectly placed thermal pad there, a metal bracket, plus a heat pipe- and I see no degradation of performance.Side note, if you run the Corsair VRM blower at max it gets LOUD. This thing spins alarmingly fast at 100%, but I set a custom curve in Afterburner anyways.Do be aware that you'll need: -thermal paste (and need to clean the old off) -a liquid cooler (an Asetek bracket is included, so any Asetek should work, mine is the square CoolIT pump and also works) -two fan headers- one running at 100% for the pump (so I can't run this in my OEM workstation without an adapter) and one running the fan on the radiator.Versus the NZXT G10/G12, I like this design better. It does cost more, but it seems better engineered for the reference 970- having a proper board cooler, a stockish looking blower fan, better looking bracket, and square pump head compatibility. If your particular 970 is running hot and is on Corsair's "Tech Specs" tab for this product, it's more than worth a shot! The longer PCB 970s can supposedly fit the 980 version.

Giving 5 stars to Corsair's HG10 for making a nice base to work with; however, the average plug-n-play user will not find the same satisfaction with this products if their gpu layout is not within Corsair's compatibility list.I bought this bracket along with the h60 performance cooler knowing that some modifications would have to be done (thank you other reviewer for hinting your Asus board worked with this). My tower runs an Asus 970 Turbo 4Gb and its low hum on idle had been bugging me (28% fan load minimum) while the load stats weren't too stunning. With the bracket modified, I was able to keep the stock heat sinks around the vram (quirky layout anyway, not standard) for the blower to take care of, and luckily the hole layouts were to reference spec.Anyone else looking to try and adapt the card to their board should get specs on the holes (reference or not reference) and make sure the fan pin won't be a problem. As the other reviewer said about his fan pin, its a tight fit but it works!Tools used: Dremel 4200, EZ-lock metal cutting discs (for cutting the front part off), and Dremel Tungsten Carbide cutter (9901). NOTE: if using this method on the bracket, be careful with the carbide cutter! It cuts through the metal like butter. Also, this mod likely voids the bracket warranty, and may even void the card warranty, so be ready for that.August 2018 update:I'm dropping a star off of this product after many unsuccessful attempts to install newer Corsair Hydro coolers (despite what you see in other reviewers' photos). The included bracket(s) for Hydro coolers fit only those coolers listed on Corsair's site, and not the later, newer top-mounted AIO despite similar technology (the 'v2' and 'refreshed' AIO won't do). Moreover, a compatible, side-ported H55 is being withheld from the consumers and is only offered in bundled cards (meaning no 'cheap man's water-cooled SLI' setup).This incompatibility has led me to drop this bracket as a recommendation to builders, unless absolutely necessary for their build, instead favoring either the NZXT Kraken, or a custom loop option for maximum flexibility over this AIO bracket.It is aging rapidly and Corsair is not extending support so proceed at your own peril!

A backing plate is not made for my card, so with a bit of measuring and machining it fits perfect now, with my mod that is. I paired it with a corsair i80 water cooler. Tight fit against the memory fan, but it works.I'm sure if u had dremel u could make it work ... I recommend a cooler with supply and return lines @ the side... And not from top ( makes for a difficult install )5 stars because I made it work ... And I did not have to manufacture a complete plate, just mod an already existing.

First let me start by saying that this product is listed as and intended to be used on reference cooler 970s. Though I have the EVGA 970 SSC with the acx 2.0 cooler, I decided to see if it would still work. The answer is Yes and No. Yes it fits and the 4 holes that need to line up to attach the aio cooler. However there are three spots where large capacitors on the board come into contact with the HG10 preventing it from going on. A few minutes later and three postage stamp sized holes cut with a dremmel tool to allow clearance for the capacitors and the HG10 is sitting flush and proper. I paired it with the Corsair h55 aio cooler as it looks as though the aio cooler pad/pump has to be round to fit the HG10. The h55 aio fit beautifully and brought my 970 sli'd pair from idle temps with no fans running of 60c down to 30c. Load temps of 85c down to 50c with near silent operation. The Nvidia 970s suffer from a power limit built into the bios, but after a bios reflash raising the limits the rear power of this card can be felt. Now with the added head room of liquid cooling on them they are pushing well past 1500mhz on the core with 0 artifacts.There isn't any other reviews or much info on the HG10 on 970s as of yet so I gave it a shot and am very please with the results. 4 out of 5 only because I had to modify them to fit.

Pretty impressed, dropped almost 35 degrees c in furmark. Was throttling at 85c on a gtx 760, now runs smoothly at 52c. Vrms are also noticeably cooler. This is hooked to a h110, it does come with the round twist lock bracket.

Typical extremely well made high quality Corsair product.With the addition of a H55 cooler dropped the temperature of my GPU by 20-25 degrees. Performance is now so much more stable and frame rate is higher and does not suffer drops from overheating (my gpu is highly clocked) Only con was I had to modify this to fit my GPU which was easy enough to do with a Dremel multi tool and a grinding bur.If your not comfortable adapting this to fit your gpu and your card is not on the comparability list I would not reccomend this product, however if your fairly competent working with you hands and have the time to adapt the bracket I’m sure this will work on 90% of cards, at the least, it’s very much worth the £35

Doesn't fit the Asus Strix GTX 970. Even after pulling out the dremel and somehow trying to make it work, it's just not made for that board. Also it came in damaged packaging and felt as though it was second hand.

Paired this with a H60 on a Palit GTX 760 4gb, previously running 100% load at around 75-85oc now it has droped down to 50oc max i have had on full load is 60oc, this product is well worth getting especially if you have a spare cooler lying around. make sure to read descrition on corsair website as some coolers wont't fit.

Installed this in about an hour. The instructions are a little vague but it's fairly straight forward. This will work with a GTX 670 without any modifications (I've heard some people have needed to cut out pieces). Fitted the latest H55 cooler and it works a treat. Temps were low 70s peak before, now hitting low 40s peak. Awesome.

Have to mod if you have anything other than stock GPU, but Aluminium Alloy easy to cut