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Hi,
My next graphics card is most likely to be a GeForce 560 Ti and it's going to go into a watercooled rig. I have two questions:
- Would it be worth me overclocking the GPU for my current usage, being playing recent games, and some 3D Studio Max work?
- If so, should I take the plunge and get a waterblock, or would air be sufficient?
Any help would be appreciated :-)
Well its not really worth it because with the price of the waterblock and the card you with an extra £20 or so you could of afforded a GTX 570 which will give better performance, but if you really want to stick to watercooling you can, the 560 Ti's air cooler is quite good anyway :)
If you have a fast enough CPU and a water system that you can add the GPU to then yeah.
You can pick up a GPU water block for £25 but you might void your warranty if the card fails and they notice the HSF has been off.
I would stick to air cooling and use the extra money to upgrade to GTX570 or above, don't really need water cooling unless your some serious gamer who's overclocking everything possible.
I would stick to air cooling and use the extra money to upgrade to GTX570 or above, don't really need water cooling unless your some serious gamer who's overclocking everything possible
Im about to water my 570. Its pesonal preference, im just doing it for looks and to expand the life of it because i invested knowing its a gpu that will last a couple of years.
not with evga ,as long as you didnt do the damage ,and you refit the origial heatsink thats fine under warrentyQuote:
Originally Posted by jiggeruk
Water cooling a graphics card can have a dramatic effect on the temps and eliminates all noise from it. I find an average of 20 degrees temp drop on the cards I have water cooled before. yes it will void your warrenty except for EVGA but its so worth it.
If your worried about the cost buy a generic block like a EK vga HF model an it will then fit your new upgrade as well as its upgrade as long as they dont modify the fixing points. My antique danger den maze 4 has been in use for almost 10 years now, talk about value for money. You then just need some ram sinks for the mosfets and the memory :)
I am running a 560ti atm and was thinking of Wc'ing it.. but after running at around 980mhz and having it sit around 70deg im ok with that.
But yes watercooling does knock of some serious temps so if i had a 580 or 6970/7970 i would deffo put blocks on them
Mine runs really cool (while overclocked), thus it's not required at all.
if you WC the pc you may as well WC the video card so you can overclock and still have a near silent rig.
invest in a koolance tms controller card so it idles in near silence :)
water cooling a card can definitely give a better platform for overclocking the card but as others have said its a question of cost vs performance increase. Also with some manufacturers it will void the warranty of the card so be careful with that.