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Thanks for the compliment. Got the card for 590€ at Saturn.de (I live in Austria but German shops are sometimes cheaper) with the "Mehrwertsteuer-Aktion" and before receiving it at the pick up in store I got to turn a fortune wheel and won 100€ off my purchase, so I just paid 490€ for the card itself. The G12, H75, extra fan and heat sinks were another 120€, so in total the project cost me just 610€.

Three months ago I transformed my ASUS TURBO GTX 1080 Ti (blower card) into an AIO-water-cooled card using the NZXT G12 bracket, a Corsair H75, a BeQuiet 1800RPM 92mm fan to cool the VRMs and additional copper heat sinks applied with thermal pads on the VRAMs and also the VRMs. Considering the time I already have the card, it's safe to say that I'm pretty much a newbie to overclocking since I wasn't even able to uphold 1911 MHz core load in 3DMark without tweaking the temp limit, which resulted in temperatures of up to 90 degrees Celsius. Now that it's water-cooled I'm able to achieve 2063 MHz core load and 6013 MHz memory load and even more when tweaking the power limit to 120% in Afterburner. The change in temps is also astonishing: Now the GPU would not hit more than 38 degrees with maximum speed on the radiator fans and 43 degrees with way less audible fan speed. My question is: Does increasing the power limit shorten a GPU's lifespan? I've already read that the main problem with increasing it are the temps but I've did some testing with stock load with 100% power and the said overclock with 120% and didn't see any difference in both temperature and stability (overlocked settings are slightly more stable with around 99.7% stability in Time Spy Extreme Stress Test in 3DMark So is it safe to leave it the settings as they are?