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11 minutes ago, weaselfinder said:

I mainly want to do it for the experience, for fun, and to just get a little more performance 

Point one and two is whatever, that's the fun of technologies. But when you brought up point 3, all things are irrelevant because now its the question of whether its worth it for you to do it or not in terms of monetary value and the answer to that is a whopping no.

 

To water cool a 3070 and a 5600X with EK kit that would cost us 800$. You know what else we can buy with that money? a 5800X3D, and with quick GPU sale, a used 3090.

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Is it worth water cooling a 3070 and 5600x, i like to overclock

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5 minutes ago, weaselfinder said:

Is it worth water cooling a 3070 and 5600x, i like to overclock

Such a strange question.   Worth it from a cost perspective if we are talking custom loop, absolutely not.  A decent air cooler like the Peerless Assassin will keep the 5600x cool enough even when OC and you will run into other issues before you would thermal throttle. And you can get a nice overclock on a stock 3070 with enough case airflow to keep it cool and higher fan speed.
If you WANT to water cool it from a looks pespective, sure? Or from maybe to keep noise down, sure?
watercooling the parts will not give you any significant gains in performance over just normal air cooling, unless you go shuntmodding or try to set records.

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No, it isn’t

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Not really. You'll get an extra 25-50MHz at most, which unless you're doing competitive overclocking is completely pointless. 

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I mainly want to do it for the experience, for fun, and to just get a little more performance 

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11 minutes ago, weaselfinder said:

I mainly want to do it for the experience, for fun, and to just get a little more performance 

Point one and two is whatever, that's the fun of technologies. But when you brought up point 3, all things are irrelevant because now its the question of whether its worth it for you to do it or not in terms of monetary value and the answer to that is a whopping no.

 

To water cool a 3070 and a 5600X with EK kit that would cost us 800$. You know what else we can buy with that money? a 5800X3D, and with quick GPU sale, a used 3090.

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On 7/15/2023 at 9:16 AM, weaselfinder said:

I mainly want to do it for the experience, for fun, and to just get a little more performance 

imo it's not worth it, i did for my 5700x (upgraded from 3600) & 3070 in 2021 also my ambient temps are 33c (south east asia)

i'm still using the same pc now, no issue

 

you don't really need to go EK, there are other brands like bykski, barrow, corsair, alphacool etc

 

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