watercooling or not

[ajrkman]

should I water cool my EVGA 3070 xc3 or should i not

[svmlegacy]

Just now, ajrkman said:

should I water cool my EVGA 3070 xc3 or should i not

If you have to ask us, the answer is no.

[ajrkman]

ok let me change the question is there a way to watercool the card

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Yes, but youll have to make a loop for it, which is costly.

 

Reasons to watercool a gpu

 

Make it lower profile so the pcie slots adjacent to the gpu arent blocked

 

Make it run cooler cause most aib coolers are eh and will gain performance if you just deshroud and swap the fans for noctuas or something

 

Combine it with a cpu cooling loop assuming you already have a cpu loop beforehand

[ajrkman]

i have a aio on the cpu right now and buying parts to do a custom loop but cant find a water block for the gpu

[maartendc]

In my opinion, watercooling these days is really for people who just enjoy tinkering with watercooling. It is not going to get you much better performance, very very slight.

 

Your system might run cooler. Depending on your radiator / pump/ etc. it might not even be that quiet.

 

I would say, don't do it, unless you just enjoy playing around with it.

[Slizzo]

6 hours ago, maartendc said:

In my opinion, watercooling these days is really for people who just enjoy tinkering with watercooling. It is not going to get you much better performance, very very slight.

I don't know. My 2080Ti doesn't break 45*c at full load on my loop. Makes the clocks stay above 2000MHz at all times.

 

I'd say that's netting me performance without touching anything else.

[maartendc]

On 6/28/2021 at 4:56 PM, Slizzo said:

I don't know. My 2080Ti doesn't break 45*c at full load on my loop. Makes the clocks stay above 2000MHz at all times.

 

I'd say that's netting me performance without touching anything else.

I think air cooling is so good these days, that the clock differences are very small. The beefy cards get beefy coolers to match.

 

Same with CPU's, if you get a really good air cooler, that is all you need really.

 

I think Jayztwocents did a video a long while back benchmarking air versus watercooled GPU, and came to the conclusion that it runs cooler, and quieter, but almost the same performance.

[Slizzo]

Depends there too now though. Clock stability is a very important thing as well. Linus actually went over this with the new Corsair One video.

[Jeppes]

On 6/29/2021 at 6:24 PM, maartendc said:

I think air cooling is so good these days, that the clock differences are very small. The beefy cards get beefy coolers to match.

 

Same with CPU's, if you get a really good air cooler, that is all you need really.

 

I think Jayztwocents did a video a long while back benchmarking air versus watercooled GPU, and came to the conclusion that it runs cooler, and quieter, but almost the same performance.

New cards with thick coolers run near silent if you strap normal 120x25mm fans on them. Its great as now you dont need a custom air-cooler for silence, all you need to do is swap the fans and have a case with decent airflow with low rpm fans.