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Water cooled reference or non reference??

The Afro Samurai
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for the price you pay for the blocks, rads, pump and fittings. Its really for looks imo. You will get more performance at lower temps but at a huge cost

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I'm sorry if this has been talked about but which is better? I was talking geek/nerd with one of my co workers and I told him I was considering water cooling my system but I was scared to open up GPU's an add the waterblocks but he assured me if you can build your system which I have it's not that hard at all and I'll be fine. Now the question is this, are the overclocks better or is it just looks?


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for the price you pay for the blocks, rads, pump and fittings. Its really for looks imo. You will get more performance at lower temps but at a huge cost

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7 minutes ago, astrosheen said:

for the price you pay for the blocks, rads, pump and fittings. Its really for looks imo. You will get more performance at lower temps but at a huge cost

Okay, so I'll stick to my AIO for the CPU and just wait for non reference 1080's. Thank you.


CPU: i7 5820K Motherboard: AsRock x99x Fatality RAM: 32GB Corsair DDR4 3000mhz GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 ti SC2 Case: Corsair 780T Storage: Samsung 950 Pro M.2, Samsung EVO 500gb and various WB Storage PSU: EVGA 1300 G2 Display: TBD
 

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7 minutes ago, The Afro Samurai said:

Okay, so I'll stick to my AIO for the CPU and just wait for non reference 1080's. Thank you.

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