Upgrade advise AIO Watercooling and general platform

[DonDroid]

Budget (including currency): ~ 500 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming sometimes rendering

Other details: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BVc8xs

 

So basically i need to work on my cooling solution. My current AIO starts making some weird grinding noises in the last weeks every now and then altough temps are still fine i think it is going to quit on me in the foreseable future.

Im thinking about the be quiet pure loop f2 Fx in either the 240 or 360mm variant. 

Also i am thinking about a custom loop watercooling but i have never done this before and if you start reading about 200 different components and why they are good and bad it feels a little bit overwhelming at first. 

 

Aside from that i do not know if i probably should just wait for the 7000 series launch and go for the big overhaul at that point. Or maybe just buy a new CPU that can catch up with the 3090 and wait until that is obsolete.

So many Options ^^

 

In short i do not know if it would be advisable to upgrade to current gen or wait for next gen even though current gen should work fine for 3090 gaming i guess?

Apart from the cooling. That is necessary because it might fail

 

[LIGISTX]

23 minutes ago, DonDroid said:

Budget (including currency): ~ 500 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming sometimes rendering

Other details: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BVc8xs

 

So basically i need to work on my cooling solution. My current AIO starts making some weird grinding noises in the last weeks every now and then altough temps are still fine i think it is going to quit on me in the foreseable future.

Im thinking about the be quiet pure loop f2 Fx in either the 240 or 360mm variant. 

Also i am thinking about a custom loop watercooling but i have never done this before and if you start reading about 200 different components and why they are good and bad it feels a little bit overwhelming at first. 

 

Aside from that i do not know if i probably should just wait for the 7000 series launch and go for the big overhaul at that point. Or maybe just buy a new CPU that can catch up with the 3090 and wait until that is obsolete.

So many Options ^^

 

In short i do not know if it would be advisable to upgrade to current gen or wait for next gen even though current gen should work fine for 3090 gaming i guess?

Apart from the cooling. That is necessary because it might fail

 

A 2700 is definitely a large bottle neck for a 3090…

 

But for cooling, just get a decent air cooler. Doesn’t take much to cool a 2700, and spending a lot on an AIO, and especially custom water cooling, only really makes sense when you have expendable money or already have a well built balanced system. You would do a lot better with a budget cooler and CPU upgrade than an awesome cooler and retaining the 2700. 
 

For reference, the build in my sig cost over 700 to do the custom loop. That only really makes sense if that money isn’t better spent somewhere else. The upside of custom water is you can carry the parts forward for basically ever. The rads, pump, res and fittings can be used in future builds, but it’s still a large up front cost which may be better used on component upgrades. 

[PDifolco]

Get a $60ish aircooler, something like an AK620 and spend your money on a better CPU, like a 5800X3D, total cost around $500

[DonDroid]

Tbf the system was never planed for a 3090 but for a 20 series. I think we all know what the problem was there

Anyways i appreciate your Input. Might be a good solution to just get a decent Air Cooler for the time being until i have further decided where to go with the System as a whole because as stated i still think about going to 7000.

 

And of course benchmarks never show real world performance but according to 3DMark a standard 7 5800x is roughly a 30 percent increase over my actual peformance. with my overclocked 7 2700. Which of course is an increase  

 

Do you think the AK620 would be able to handle the Heat my CPU produces? Keeping the attached OCCT bench in mind.

[DonDroid]

Do you think a Pure Rock 2 FX could handle it?

be quiet! Pure Rock 2 FX CPU Cooler (Black) BK033 B&H Photo Video (bhphotovideo.com)

 

I mean i like RGB and this one seems quite reasonable i Guess... 

[DonDroid]

Alright so if anyone stumbles upon this, No the Pure Rock 2 FX was not able to handle my Overclocking. I ended up reducing the settings quite a bit.

I then opened and cleaned my AIO. Which wasn't as simple as i expected it to be, because getting the Air out of the pump case was quite a challenge for my Skillset. 

 

Anyways i ended up replacing the CPU and the Cooling Solution.