Watercooling a 1070

Pogue

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As above, is it worth doing?

Card is not particularly hot (inno3d 1070 3x)

Apart from the aesthetics is it worth doing solely for overclocking?
 
Pogue said:
As above, is it worth doing?

Card is not particularly hot (inno3d 1070 3x)

Apart from the aesthetics is it worth doing solely for overclocking?
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I have an EVGA 1070 FE, and I did it mainly because I wanted to hook it upto my EKWB Predator 360.

It doesn't strike me, as a card that actually needs water cooling, but my system is a lot quieter now, and in games, it hits about 40oc max temp.
 
They seem to be very limited in how much you can clock them after their turbo settings. It doesn't seem to bake too much difference if you water cool it compared to air cooling as the limitation is on the voltage side of things not the temp side, especially if it's running cool
 
Pogue said:
As above, is it worth doing?

Card is not particularly hot (inno3d 1070 3x)

Apart from the aesthetics is it worth doing solely for overclocking?
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I have the same card with a Aquacomputer Kyographics 1080/1070 block on it. To be honest the stock cooler that comes with it is so good I almost didn't bother fitting the block but as I got it at the same time as the card I went ahead and fitted it. It doesn't overclock any more than with the stock cooler fitted. What it does do though is hold a steady higher clock due to the temps being lower instead of dropping as the temps rise. My card holds a solid 2012mhz (not overclocked) due to the gpu not exceeding 32 degrees while I have seen others on here dropping the clockspeed as the temps increase. When gaming yesterday my gpu was at 29 degrees and the cpu at 32 degrees after a 2 hour gaming session. My card can clock to 2152mhz/9914mhz on air or water.

My rads are in a box on a windowsill sucking outside air through them so my setup is rather unique. Even in the summer my water temps rarely exceed 28 degrees C and in the winter the water temp is in single figures meaning I have some really low cpu and gpu temps.
 
pastymuncher said:
My rads are in a box on a windowsill sucking outside air through them so my setup is rather unique. Even in the summer my water temps rarely exceed 28 degrees C and in the winter the water temp is in single figures meaning I have some really low cpu and gpu temps.
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Do you not get condensation like that in winter?
 
It has been asked many times before and for some reason I never have had any condensation. I don't even get it on the 14 feet of 12mm copper pipe between the window and my pc. My computer room is just a pair of decent size cupboards knocked into one so doesn't have any heating. There is a radiator on the landing just outside my door though. It's never what I would call cold in my room either. The lowest it gets down to is around 16 degrees C which is comfortable to me. My current water temp is 15.2 degrees C. :D
 
Nice. The temps on my new 1080 & Aqua Computer block get to 44 - 46°C in The Witcher 3, with one 360 rad in push configuration and 3 intake 140mm fans. No outdoors watercooling here, but my intakes are set to only switch on when water temps reach 28°C. Rad fans set to 900 RPM max and intakes to 750 RPM. All Noctua IndustrialPPC. 4770k CPU in the same loop.
 
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