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Nothing in particular, I just assumed having the higher bandwidth would be better for running multiple screens and peripherals but I don't know that it would make that much difference

Looking for a Type C dock that I can use on my XPS 15 with thunderbolt, but that can also be used by others in the office who just have type C with displayport. Currently have a Dell thunderbolt dock but it doesn't work with regular type C devices, anyone got any recommendations?

Thanks for all the help guys! Looks like I'll be giving the delid ago in a month or 2 and see where we are then

the delid isn't to push the chip further - it's to get better thermal performance with my current config - mounts definitely good, from what others have said it does appear to just be the tim.

Damn fair enough, How easy is a delid and liquid metal? and how much should I expect it to improve?

I've got my 8700k overclocked to 4.9Ghz at 1.28v on an Asus Prime Z370-a, I'm using a hydro x loop, just cpu, with 1 240mm rad and 1 50mm 360mm rad. The mac temp I saw on a cinebench r20 run was around 80 degrees. Is the 8th gen tim really that? For reference my buddy with a 480mm rad and a 9600k at 5Ghz 1.4 gets to about 40 degrees max Double the temp seems too much to just be down to hyperthreading

Very true - I'll consider selling it to upgrade - my current plan is to borrow my friends 1080 as he has the same asus strix card I do so I'll test things with that before buying anything for sure

Yeah plan is to wait for the new cards to come out and compare then - just by then I imagine a 1080 will be even cheaper than they currently are

Looking at upgrading my GPU at the end of the year once all the hardware has been announced. Currently running a GTX 1080, I was set on upgrading to the 3080/ti when it comes out however I'm considering getting another 1080 and putting them in SLI. Looking at performance benchmarks it seems i'll get similar to that of a 2080/2080ti but for only the £300 of buying another 1080 (half the price I spent originally)

fair bit has changed since I made the post so I'll give you a quick summary; I run 3 1080 144hz monitors off my main gpu (the 1080) in nvidia surround. I wanted to plug in my 4k TV and split it into another 4 1080p monitors but due to the sheer amount of desktop space, the primary gpu just couldn't keep up I Thought having the display plugged into a different gpu it would run off of that one but after trying both the igpu and a 2nd dedicated one, I found that in task manager the apps on the tv were still rendering with gpu1. Looks like all I need to do is enable the igpu, plug the TV in anywhere and set apps I put on it to run on gpu0. Open to suggestions if anyones got a better way of doing this

I have a 1080 and a 1060 in my machine to connect more displays, but apps on displays plugged into the 1060 are still using the 1080 to render - I'd change their gpu in windows 10 graphics settings but the 1080 is listed as both, how do I get the 1060 to show as the power saving gpu?

Ah okay - what if you ran the pump slower? Would that see any improvement?

Hey, So I'm looking at doing my first custom loop soon, looking at the best order for the components and I'm seeing a lot of responses saying it doesn't really matter. To me, it seems like you'd get slightly better performance if you had the radiators dumping cooled water in the reservoir and then have that feeding the pump and then components - can anyone explain how and why that's not best practice?

Thanks both, Just tried and unfortunately neither of those solved the issue. I'll try the update and see how that goes. Thanks, Corban