Water cooling overclock newbie

[antwan]

Hi guys IV worked with servers for many years for basic use nothing to extreme so my home pc has always been the same meets the requirements but nothing more.

My basic system is nothing exciting a 6700k 32gig ram and a gtx 1080ti. I recently got in to gaming and not really had any issues with the games I play but out of interest Id like to play with over clocking the 1080ti as a learning experience if nothing else.

Some reading suggests water-cooling might be the way to go so would you guys suggest an aio for both CPU and GPU or just the GPU or maybe a full loop.

I like the the idea of building a loop for fun but obviously I don't want to waste time and money just for fun

 

[Disco_P]

You don't need to watercool to overclock. It helps by removing temperature of the core (and possibly the VRMs/memory etc) as a limiting factor but you're still limited by silicon quality and nvidia. It's also gonna be quite costly, especially considering the age/value of the 1080ti.

Building a loop nowadays is mostly for lowering noise and for fun.

For your 1080ti, there are plenty of guides out there and most of them are aimed at air-cooled cards. It's relatively simple, mostly just download MSI afterburner and move some sliders whilst running a stress test until it crashes then backing off a few ticks.

 

[Parsley]

You don't need to watercool to overclock. It helps by removing temperature of the core (and possibly the VRMs/memory etc) as a limiting factor but you're still limited by silicon quality and nvidia. It's also gonna be quite costly, especially considering the age/value of the 1080ti.

Building a loop nowadays is mostly for lowering noise and for fun.

For your 1080ti, there are plenty of guides out there and most of them are aimed at air-cooled cards. It's relatively simple, mostly just download MSI afterburner and move some sliders whilst running a stress test until it crashes then backing off a few ticks.

I agree with this. The performance gains that come with watercooling aren't really there anymore, not to the extent they used to be. You may get a little extra by being able to put a bit more power in but a lot of modern tech is already binned to be close to being on the edge anyway or deliberately limited to keep the performance in its price range. You will avoid any downclocking due to temperatures though.

Watercooling has become a lot more expensive than it used to be as well.

But it's fun to play with, and once you're used to how quiet it can be then a mini wind tunnel under your desk can be quite annoying!

I miss the overclocks we used to get on the likes of the Q6600. 2.4ghz to 3.6ghz and that was just on air!