Anyone else just cant be bothered?

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I have / had a wc set up with a 4790k and a 290x on 2 x 280 rads

I switched out to an air cooled 970 for a while, then 6 months ago or whatever, I upgraded to a used 980ti with a water block. I installed it on air initially, but its still on air now, I just really cant find the motivation to add it to my loop...

Anyone else feeling like that? I mean, I guess it would only take an an afternoon to get it done... Maybe I'm just getting old and boring?

It probably doesn't help that I just play rocket league at the moment.

At least my delidded 4790k is loving the whole rad space I guess lol
 
Oh yeah long past that stage. Fed up of custom loops, too much hassle to upgrade.

AIO on CPU and another on the GPU. Even that's a bit annoying. Next GPU will be air cooled.
 
Pretty much, yeah.
Had various combos of 7970CF, 7990, 290CF/TF underwater. I then got a 980Ti nearly 2 years ago and just couldn't be bothered to do anything with it.
I just rejigged the loop to CPU only and left it at that.
 
Well, glad its not just me.

I think I will force myself to do it "soon" The way CPUs / GPUs are at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm keeping this set up for years really, so I really should do it so I can enjoy the setup as I spent so much time and money sorting it all out.

I haven't even overclocked this 980ti :O I'm not the man I used to be lol.
 
Get from it time to time, changing a gpu isn't a quick thing with a loop, but I tend to keep my upgrades to a minimum or do more than one in one session to minimize drain and filling etc.
 
Another factor is the lack of overclockability of recent hardware, Ryzen and Nvidias latest GPUs are all limited by silicon rather than heat. So the performance gains of custom cooling are limited, it's become more about aesthetics unless you're trying to cool a HEDT CPU.
 
Had a dual loop machine for around 5 years or so but just got fed up with it so now have my 6700 on a Noctua air cooler- totally silent and @ 4.2Ghz runs @31c but I did put a Kraken on my GTX1080ti MSI Armour as it was hot- high 70s as hell but now it hit max of 51c when fully maxed out on benchmarks or the like and runs totally silent!
I think the biggest problem that I had was the noise from the Varder fans was hellish
 
I use my can't be arsedness to avoid frequent upgrades. I was using a 2013 titan up to a year ago cause i couldn't be arsed with getting a maxwell card.

I've also used my laziness to change bits of the loop without draining. I've changed a cpu block, gpu block and rad (on three separate occasions) without losing more than 50ml of collant.

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Once I eventually change my GPU or decide to put the ACX 2.0 cooler on my 980ti I'm going to dismantle my loop and be done with watercooling.

Other than the fun of building it for the first time I can't say I have any reason/motivation to stick with watercooling vs air
 
I was in a similar situation, but the noise made me add the gpu block back,

also you will definitely get higher sustained clocks the lower your temp, even down to 40
 
As people have mentioned, watercooling is sort of pointless these days, you wont really get much better clocks than someone running on a 50$ aircooler, it`s all silicon lottery, plus it`s needlessly expensive.
Yes it might be quieter, but aircooled aint far behind, and much cheaper/faster/easier to upgrade.
All said and done, I still run WC, but when these things might stop working, will probably, scrap it and go back to air.
Also coilwhine makes even the quietest setup pointless.
 
I watercooled my rigs almost continuously from ~2003 to 2016, the thing that caused me to pack it in was the improvements to heat sinks and the zero fans while idle GPUs. My Noctua D15 and MSI Gaming card were simply just as quiet as the system would be on water so I didn;t see the point lol. Planning to go back once EK release the fluid block for my new Vega 64 though :)
 
I can relate to this. The next stage is buying a NUC as short of putting in a wifi adapter, SSD and RAM it's game over... Well, until you're on your third NUC and then get bored so go back to a conventional rig and then remember air coolers are noisy, huge and annoying so go back to water. Peraps thats just me?
 
I loved building my parvum with the watercooling it was fun and very nice on the eye, then I had some issues with mobo and i upgraded the GPU and it stayed on air! I'm looking at starting a new project and looking through a lot of build logs on here there isn't a decent build on air with cool features so may go down that route :cool:
 
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