I built my friend a PC, but he just blew my mind

[Lord Nicoll]

When my friend asked me to build him a PC, I was a little surprised as usually my lesser technical friends and family come, but I know he's knows how, however he was busy and couldn't. It was when I got the parts that he ordered and dropped off along with the list of stuff he'd like done, I was a little perplexed because there was water cooling gear, but no CPU block.... He had an air cooler for it. This kinda hurt my brain, because why not add a block on, they go for between €60 and €120, when you bought all the stuff for just a GPU it didn't make sense, he had a GTX 1070 (not a card I'd consider water cooling tbh) and an i5 7600K. I built it how he wanted, but I wished I taken photos or something, it was a big odd looking, but the scores proved me otherwise. I guess he decided it was better to cool the part that affects FPS the most, the GPU. I still don't think it was the best move, but what do you guys think? He could have gotten two AIOs, one for the GPU and one for the CPU, but this does do pretty good.. But now I question everything I know...

[FloRolf]

wat?

So he build a custom loop for GPU only? Totally legit move tbh. But not for 10 series cards. They can't do jackshit if they are not on DICE or LN2.

[Legolessed]

7 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

When my friend asked me to build him a PC, I was a little surprised as usually my lesser technical friends and family come, but I know he's knows how, however he was busy and couldn't. It was when I got the parts that he ordered and dropped off along with the list of stuff he'd like done, I was a little perplexed because there was water cooling gear, but no CPU block.... He had an air cooler for it. This kinda hurt my brain, because why not add a block on, they go for between €60 and €120, when you bought all the stuff for just a GPU it didn't make sense, he had a GTX 1070 (not a card I'd consider water cooling tbh) and an i5 7600K. I built it how he wanted, but I wished I taken photos or something, it was a big odd looking, but the scores proved me otherwise. I guess he decided it was better to cool the part that affects FPS the most, the GPU. I still don't think it was the best move, but what do you guys think? He could have gotten two AIOs, one for the GPU and one for the CPU, but this does do pretty good.. But now I question everything I know...

My theory is that the gpu is staying very cool and not putting hot air into the case. There for making both the CPU and GPU cooler which in turn increases performance

[Lord Nicoll]

3 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

wat?

So he build a custom loop for GPU only? Totally legit move tbh. But not for 10 series cards. They can't do jackshit if they are not on DICE or LN2.

Yeah, now I half expected it since GPU boost and all that, but a CPU block isn't that much, but then he'd probably need another rad, he only had a dual 140. 

[Lord Nicoll]

3 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

My theory is that the gpu is staying very cool and not putting hot air into the case. There for making both the CPU and GPU cooler which in turn increases performance

Yeah, plus the card never hits 60°C, barely 50°C, so GPU boost goes all hype rdrive 

[FloRolf]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

Yeah, now I half expected it since GPU boost and all that, but a CPU block isn't that much, but then he'd probably need another rad, he only had a dual 140. 

Dual 140s is enough for both.

Oh and please change that shitty clickbait title. 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, FloRolf said:

Dual 140s is enough for both.

Oh and please change that shitty clickbait title. 

air temps tend to be kinda hot in his house, so I wouldn't really, plus he overclocked the system so I doubt that 280mm (the rad was 30mm so kinda on the thin side) would be ok, well, not unless you wnat 100% fan speed. And never, Clickbait is how the internet works, as much as it pains me

[MrImnotMLG]

I've seen that before. I would've thought of cooling the CPU by itself or both but not just the GPU. Strange but not unreasonable.

[Deli]

Jaytwocents built a Nano S with only a 240mm rad to cool a 4790K @ 4.6GHz and a GTX970.

 

My racing rig also only has a 240mm rad for a 4790K @ 4.4GHz and an RX480. Temp for both CPU and GPU are only 55C and 50C respectively during gaming.

 

A 280mm rad is fine for an 7600K and GTX1070, as long as the rad fans are good.

 

Back to the subject. What's wrong with the loop just cooling the GPU?

[Lord Nicoll]

21 minutes ago, Deli said:

Jaytwocents built a Nano S with only a 240mm rad to cool a 4790K @ 4.6GHz and a GTX970.

 

My racing rig also only has a 240mm rad for a 4790K @ 4.4GHz and an RX480. Temp for both CPU and GPU are only 55C and 50C respectively during gaming.

 

A 280mm rad is fine for an 7600K and GTX1070, as long as the rad fans are good.

 

Back to the subject. What's wrong with the loop just cooling the GPU?

His room can get really hot, up to 30°C sometimes, so I wouldn't trust it not to heatsoak. The main issue is for less than €60 more he could have added the CPU, he used a dark rock pro 3 for the CPU, which isn't a cheap air cooler, maybe he had half of them already, he had taken some of the packaging off some of it, others was just in bags, if he just had it lying around fair enough, but it wouldn't have been that much more.