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Water cooled GPU

ky_uk

ky_uk

ky_uk

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Hello,
Recently finished my build but even though I am happy with it I know I made a mistake with my choice of cards, I chose EVGA 980TI hybrid 6GB I have 2 in SLI I got a good set of cards in the respect that I have the both clocked to 1493 in SLI if I push to 1506 they are unstable, so I am happy with how they run. Now to my problem that being is I can’t stop wanting more, I have 64Gb RAM at 3000mhz and my I7 6700K clocked at 4.8, but I feel I am now being bottlenecked by the two cards I chose. So I want to look into going full water cooled and wondering what cards would be the best to run in 2 way SLI and what kit I would need for the water cooling plus a CPU kit, my motherboard ia a ASUS maximus formula and has a water block on it so can I incorporate that into the cooling system or just leave that out.
Finally may I apologise if I did this in the wrong section and for also being a water cooling noob.
 
bottlenecked by 980ti sli??? well must say i never heard that before, unless your playing at 4k ofc the next worth while step up will be pascal titans

also youd get better answers in watercooling section
 
Your only options, as far as "upgrade" are as follows:

1) Remove hybrid coolers and replace with full cover blocks. You are going to see little to no performance gain at considerable expense.

2) Sell 980Ti's and buy either a couple of 1080's or possibly a single Pascal Titan. Again considerable expense when you factor in the cost of additional WC equipment. Even at that 2 1080's is a relatively small upgrade performance wise and I am not even sure a single Titan would be as powerful as your Ti's in SLI. But 2 Titans is mental money.

3) Be happy with what you have got as it is a beastly system.

Can I enquire at what resolution do you play and what do you have a Gsync display? If not, my advice would be to spend the cash in that area firstly.

*64gb of RAM is mental overkill for almost anything unless you are a content producer/ graphic designer. And then I would expect you to use x99 for the additional cores.
 
Your options are either sell the 980ti's and buy two 1080gtx's either sold with waterblocks/ aio or added afterwards for a moderate performance upgrade at high cost or buy two pascal titans direct from NVidia (can't buy elsewhere on their own new elsewhere) and add two waterblocks for a good upgrade performance wise at eye watering cost.

64gb of ram is very excessive for gaming... No seen anything that uses more that 16
 
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Hi everyone and thanks for the response, the resolution is 3480x2160 60hz moniter stable around 80 FPS but sometimes i get a drop to 50s but i guess i am just being a pest and wanting better, yeah 64gb is overkill for gaming but i am using video editing software, also i made the decision to stick with 1150 I could have gone x99 but for some reason at the time it made sense to me even it it was wrong.

So yeah i think i will leave it till after xmas and see what ihe can pick up in the sales regarding a custom cooling system and a set of titans.

Thanks again.
 
You'll be better waiting for the 1080 TI's. Seriously nobody in their right mind would buy a pair of Titans unless your just looking for bench figures.
 
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