Load temps at ambient temp theoretically possible?

mof

mof

mof

Associate
Joined
19 Jul 2011
Posts
288
If you had enough rads,fans,high enough fan speed, big enough blocks, high enough flow rate,best TIM etc.
Could you get cpu/gpu load temps to be the same as the ambient temp or slightly above it?

What would the other limiting factors be?
 
So in this video they get a 1080ti about 5c over ambient and I think the water temp is the same as ambient temp. Do you think that's about as good as it would get?
Edit-The water ends up a few degrees over ambient.
 
Last edited:
Shiari said:
As above, no you can't. Also, there's no point. Great, you got them at ambient ... now you spent a lot of effort (and perhaps money, energy, noise, space) to achieve that, but the electronics aren't going to run any better than they would at say 50C.
Click to expand...
That's true but it might make a difference to someone who's seriously into benchmarks.
 
I think that some people (like me) would enjoy just getting those temperatures even if it didn’t make a difference to performance.
I doubt I could tell the difference in games between non OC’d and OC’d. You could argue that spending money on any water cooling is not really worth it for the performance increase you actually get.
 
I can see how it would be helpful for productivity.
I think you can get genuinely quiet air cooled set ups nowadays. I've had noisy gpu coolers in the past but the set up I've got now is surprisingly quiet.
Funny thing is that the noisiest thing in my system during gaming is the coil whine (which isn't that bad) and the PSU fan (which doesn't kick in until after an hour under load)
and neither of these would be fixed by changing to water cooling.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom