Water cooling Vs Performance

[Panda255]

Im looking to get a pc and would want to know what you would do..

Option 1

7700k

gtx 1080 x2

Option 2

7700k 

gtx 1080

Hard tube liquid cooling

 

I dont have a monitor picked out yet i will pick one after which option i go with

[limegorilla]

I would go with option one. You're getting two 1080's and watercooling wont give you more performance, just more space to OC as you'll have lower temps.

[Light-Yagami]

17 minutes ago, Panda255 said:

Im looking to get a pc and would want to know what you would do..

Option 1

7700k

gtx 1080 x2

Option 2

7700k 

Hard tube liquid cooling

 

I dont have a monitor picked out yet i will pick one after which option i go with

2 1080s one water are a big bite to swallow for a 7700k. dual 1070 would be fine, but I think you should go with a six core processor for this build. Something like 6850k.. So you can run them in 16x speed. It's more expensive, but I believe 7700k will bottleneck at higher resolutions. 

[Light-Yagami]

3 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

2 1080s one water are a big bite to swallow for a 7700k. dual 1070 would be fine, but I think you should go with a six core processor for this build. Something like 6850k.. So you can run them in 16x speed. It's more expensive, but I believe 7700k will bottleneck at higher resolutions. 

Actually, I take that back. 7700k will run just fine, but It will bottleneck at higher framerates. There you go, a corrected statement. Like 1440p 144hz, it will bottleneck. If somebody knows better, correct me

[Panda255]

3 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

Actually, I take that back. 7700k will run just fine, but It will bottleneck at higher framerates. There you go, a corrected statement. Like 1440p 144hz, it will bottleneck. If somebody knows better, correct me

So i might aswell go with watercooling? It would also help with the games the dont scale well with 2 gpus so

[Light-Yagami]

8 minutes ago, Panda255 said:

So i might aswell go with watercooling? It would also help with the games the dont scale well with 2 gpus so

I think you should always go with water cooling like I do. It won't help preformance, but it will give you better temps. And That will give you more stable/higher-but not by much overclocks, should you decide to OC. Cpu should be watercooled by default, Buy my gpu runs on air and when heavily OCed (gtx 1070 to 2076mhz), it runs on something like 66C (40% fan speed), which is more than good. I you run your GPUs on air, make sure to feed them enough air and to exhaust it as well. I have 3 intake fans that blow directly on gpu and 3 fans (two of which are on a AIO for CPU), that exhaust air out. 

 

It's comepletely up to you what you do. But if you cool everything on a single loop, a single 360 rad won't be enough. You will need 2 (360+360) or (360+240). I'm not an expert on that, but Greg from Salazar Studio is doing a very similar build atm and is doing a series on it. Check it out

[Panda255]

2 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

I think you should always go with water cooling like I do. It won't help preformance, but it will give you better temps. And That will give you more stable/higher-but not by much overclocks, should you decide to OC. Cpu should be watercooled by default, Buy my gpu runs on air and when heavily OCed (gtx 1070 to 2076mhz), it runs on something like 66C (40% fan speed), which is more than good. I you run your GPUs on air, make sure to feed them enough air and to exhaust it as well. I have 3 intake fans that blow directly on gpu and 3 fans (two of which are on a AIO for CPU), that exhaust air out. 

 

It's comepletely up to you what you do. But if you cool everything on a single loop, a single 360 rad won't be enough. You will need 2 (360+360) or (360+240). I'm not an expert on that, but Greg from Salazar Studio is doing a very similar build atm and is doing a series on it. Check it out

If i were to water cool it would be like 3 rads and i have been just wating for the next video