Is it worth watercooling?

[Absorbentsolid]

Sup everybody,I'm a pure watercooling noob so please bare with me,I'd like to know everybody's opinion on watercooling just GPU's.

My CPU is liquid cooling and i love how it has no noticeable noise and is extremely cool at high overclocks.

I have 2 gtx 670's at the moment of this post,I aren't going to upgrade this year from my current sli setup.

But when the 800 series cards come out from Nvidia in the future i will be getting them and possibly pulling the trigger to also watercool them.

Or would it be wiser to watercool my current build?

Like i said i'm a complete noob with money to one side and was just wondering what peoples thoughts and opinions are.

The question i am trying to get at is,When i buy 2 new cards,Is it worth spending approximately over £500 just for less noise/more overclocking capabilities.

I'd like to hear what you all have to say,Is it really worth spending that amount of money on the extra overclocking and less noise?

If you could go back in time now that you have watercooled your system would you do it again? Or think nah it's not worth it.

I'm not hating i'm very interested i'd just like people to give me there opinions and what they would do if anything different.


Many thanks all please no hate

 

[FloppyPoppy]

In your boots I would leave your current set up how it is and wait for the 800 cards and water cool it/them. Not only are you getting better sound and overclock. But also lower temps and a longer life span

And to top it off bling bling nothing looks better inside a pc than a watercooled gpu

Don't forget though with the ever increasing demand air coolers on gpu and other components are getting quieter. Take the titan and 780 for a example super fast yet super quiet and "can" run cool if you wish with Gpu boost 2.0 being better optimised

If you do opt for watercooling I would highly recommend buying a card from the ocuk tech labs. There installation of gpu water blocks is the best I have ever seen and a highly compelling price

Sorry If there are errors in this message. I'm on my phone on a break at work so I don't have access to the desktop

 

[BluD]

Have a go at overclocking your current rig first if your impressed with the results and ya think ya can push it further, then bang some water on it, if not then hold off and wait till ya upgrade and see what the new graphics cards are like, if theyre good clockers but a bit noisey then ya might wanna throw water on them too.

 

[MikeTimbers]

Water-cooling a GPU will approximately halve their load temperatures and be all but silent. Only you can decide if that's worth the considerable cost. Once done, making changes to anything in the case becomes a fairly major operation and upgrading graphics cards subsequently will be made even more expensive because of the need to buy new water-blocks every time.

As you have 670s you may be able to get second-hand blocks but all of the above remains true.

 

[3t3P]

In some ways YES, in others NO

I have found huge benefit putting power hungry 470's under water, the temps are halved at load, letting me run them with massive overclocks on max stock bios volts in relative silence.

current GPU's are hella efficient as are their coolers, water no longer guarantees higher oc's on CPU's or GPUs as it may have done back in the P4 days.

you could look at it this way, once you DO go water you will find it very difficult to go back to air.
yes its more complicated to switch gear around, yes full-block GPU plates are prohibitively expensive as is the rest of the system.

But its hugely rewarding to assemble and do that first fill, then you've got a silent PC that looks the dogs.
You get to freak family and friends out when you show them your PC.

It's just freaking cool to say you have a watercooled PC.
Worth it IMO