mlangdon

I will give that a try this weekend. I'm pretty much down for anything at this point.

Before it would OC to 1895 core and 7795 memory. Both waterblock and air boost to 1750 core and 7000 memory from factory. I've also been running Heaven as well, fps difference is noticeable there too. Pretty much same difference as 3dMark. I'm close to 4k. The CRG9 has a resolution of 5140x1440 so you're driving quite a lot of pixels.

Afterburner gives an Auto OC now of +60 to the core. My PSU is a Seasonic Prime Ultra 850W Titanium. Yup, EKWB supplied the thermo grizzly I've been using. I also have noctua paste from my local microcenter that I haven't used yet. Each time I've remounted the paste spread looks good on both the chip and the waterblock. I've seen some people swear by the X method on GPUs so maybe I should try that? You are correct, it is several frames higher not a tremendous amount. This amount is the difference between always being above 60 and dipping below at moments with a screen of my size though. As for noticing I was just sitting there staring at the fps counter during the tests. Sorry about the clock speeds, I was just giving the modifiers from Afterburner. With the new OC the core is 1845mhz and memory is 7760mhz. I used air cooling for my gpu before, sorry my main post was not clear in distinguishing between prior cpu and gpu cooling. So the 60s was the triple fans running at 100%

So I've actually remounted this like 3-4 times now. Figured that sounded a bit neurotic to mention before, but there it is. I used the thermo grizzly paste they provided in the CPU kit for the GPU core, and I used the one dot method. The GPU block came with some EK branded paste, but I figured the named brand would be better. At least it's shown it's strength when it comes to the GPU and CPU temps.

TL;DR - Went from stock cooler to EKWB. OC went from +145 core and +795 mem. To +90 core and +760 mem. A decent difference in FPS and almost 400 pts in 3dMark TimeSpy. First off, thank you to anyone who attempts to help with this. I just installed my first custom loop after using AiOs forever. The two products I used to complete this loop are these from EKWB. https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-kit-p360 https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-quantum-vector-trio-rtx-2080-ti-d-rgb-nickel-plexi https://us.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-RTX-2080-Ti-GAMING-X-TRIO So I set up my loop following their instructions provided very closely. After installing thermal pads and paste to my card I attached the block, then removed it to ensure proper contact between the two. After finding it to match descriptions of proper contact, and no physical damage to be seen, I re applied the waterblock with the provided screws and washers (I did follow the instructions to use the smallest screw in the bag of screws provided). After leak testing I finally booted up 3dMark to get some details about my performance. The first big change was that the benchmark would not run until I changed my core voltage to +0, and my power limit back to only 100. These sliders had been maxed while the card was air cooled. Next the benchmark wouldn't run with my current OC settings of +145 to core and +795 to mem, and after some testing I arrived at the highest values that would work which ended up being +90 to core and +760 to mem. I hands down love the cooling, my card hit 50C max during my repeated test attempts, I understand 3dMark may not be the most heat intensive application, but my card was low to mid 60s before. I just am baffled as to why I've lost performance when I keep hearing about how watercooling can help your card step up a few notches. I use a Samsung CRG9 as my monitor so every little bit of extra performance helps games look better in 32:9. Thank you again for the help. I knew I would have some road bumps in my first custom loop endeavor, I just didn't expect this to be it.