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Question for upgrade to my gaming rig

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So current setup is this 

NZXT h710i 

MB : asus Maximus Hero X (Wi-Fi) 

8700k ( cooled with a corsair H110i ) 

32gb DDR4 3200 gskill RGB trident (4 sticks of 8gb)

EVGA 1080 SC 

 

many HD's m2's and SSD's 

 

-- what i am thinking of doing is this --

 

Upgrade 1080 to a 3080 

buy a 4k 144hz monitor  LG 27gn950-b https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27gn950-b-gaming-monitor

and possibly do a EKWB custom loop to cool CPU/GPU in 1 loop (cost ~ 1k ) 

 

Is there really a big benefit from water cooling GPU and CPU ? or would i be fine just getting air cooled GPU and keeping corsair H110i ?  I've never done a custom loop i've watched many many hours of Linus and many other vids on it and love the look but realistically i want performance boosts or cooling benefit. Any guidance/feedback would be awesome. 

 

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For the most part custom cooling is for aesthetic and bragging.

You'll get 95-99% of the performance possible with air-cooling or AIOs

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There is benefit from customer water cooling if you plan to overclock quite a bit and for the most part don't want to be restrained by temperature. If you don't plan on doing that then it's basically a waist of money. Better go with a AIO. 3080s don't usually get that hot depending on which model you get. 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 - 3900x @ 4.4GHz with a Custom Loop | MBO: ASUS Crosshair VI Extreme | RAM: 4x4GB Apacer 2666MHz overclocked to 3933MHz with OCZ Reaper HPC Heatsinks | GPU: PowerColor Red Devil 6900XT | SSDs: Intel 660P 512GB SSD and Intel 660P 1TB SSD | HDD: 2x WD Black 6TB and Seagate Backup Plus 8TB External Drive | PSU: Corsair RM1000i | Case: Cooler Master C700P Black Edition | Build Log: here

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1 hour ago, Analog said:

There is benefit from customer water cooling if you plan to overclock quite a bit and for the most part don't want to be restrained by temperature. If you don't plan on doing that then it's basically a waist of money. Better go with a AIO. 3080s don't usually get that hot depending on which model you get. 

So I had been OC'in my system from stock to about 5.2gz on AIO. but i stopped recently just cause..it wasn't really needed per say :) could always do it again if temps stayed good. but it sounds like the 3080 doesn't get as hot as the 1080 i have which is good to hear. 

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