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KWelz
By KWelz
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Alright this may be a little long but stick with me.   

 

I am considering switching my system from a water cooled dual loop system back to air.  

 

Currently I have a 6850K on a Rampage V Edition 10 with two 1080 Seahawk EKs...   

 

One of the Cards is having problems and has to be undervolted to run properly.  The good news is I purchased the Microcenter protection plan.  Which means I can take it back and either exchange it for another one or get credit out that I paid for it.  Now since I purchased this back before the 1080Ti that means I will get more than enough to buy a 1080Ti.  

 

So this has me thinking that maybe I should scale my system back.   Go to a single air cooled 1080Ti in a smaller case.  

 

I mainly play FF14, Warframe, and other similar games on an Acer Predator X34.  I know I would be giving up some temps but my SMA8 is just so big....

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I would sell the good 1080 and get a beefy 1080 ti.(AMP Extreme!, iCX 2.0 etc)

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Yeah I think that a single 1080ti will provide better over all experience on the x34 than a sli1080, retain more resale value as well.

 

Any reason why you're going back to air cooling? too troublesome? haha I wonder which air cooler you're considering.

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I agree, there's no need for two 1080's when the 1080ti on it's own is overkill for anything you throw at it. You shouldn't need to really change anything else, it'll run anything for a while to come in my opinion.

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5 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yeah I think that a single 1080ti will provide better over all experience on the x34 than a sli1080, retain more resale value as well.

 

Any reason why you're going back to air cooling? too troublesome? haha I wonder which air cooler you're considering.

Not troublesome and I love watercooling, how it looks and the temps.  However my machine is a beast.  literally a carbon copy of Skunkworks.  I believe it weighs in at about 85lbs total.  It is just too much sometimes.   Heat output is a bit much as well.  The system runs cool as hell but my office gets pretty hot with dual cards.  

 

If I do it I have a Kracken X62 I will probably use.   

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