I've been looking at some custom watercooling stuff and I was wondering what I would stand to gain overclocking wise but I cant seem to find any watercooled 970 overclocked.
So if youve got a watercooled 970 overclock post it below.
Also I was wondering if the single 8-pin connector on the 970 strix is gonna limit me
hey there, to be honest with you there is a small chance somebody has a single 970 watercooled as its not worth the costs, a small loop would cost the same as another card. 970 are not as hot as other cards. I almost finished my 1080p gaming/htpc with single 980 wc build, and can post some result in a day or two as a reference if that`s any help for you.
Yeah that would be helpful. So I guess its not worth it to make a loop with 2 970s. Well I'll just wait a year or 2 with that then. Still would like to see your results thanks.
Maxwell is fairly efficient, I doubt you would get any real benefit from Waterblocking your cards unless you want to do super crazy OC's with modded BIOS's or something like that. Just as a point of reference I run my 980's overclocked at 1563 core and 7650 mem on the factory evga acx coolers. The best benefit you would probably get from water would be a quieter rig.
**Well if you are interested in WC you could start with simple loop and cool your cpu first and then expand the loop later, as Vandal said LC will make your rig quiet and ads that nice looks. People go for it if they are limited by temps .If you get poor ocing gpus or cpu no ammount of cooling will help as there is no point of pumping volts into parts .Second thing is that you can loose warranty for cards with certain manufacturers( I
m not sure how it is with Asus). Also buying cheapest parts is not a good idea , you could loose much more than you would gain. Your setup would cost 500-600 $ or more and thats the very basic one. Also worth to mention that gpu waterblocks are not universal so you won`t reuse them if you decide to change cards.
http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/geforce_gtx_970/
Average water cooled clock rate is 1540MHz. Search through rankings to get a better idea of where watercooled cards place.
That's actually pretty darn low for water to be honest. I'm sitting on 1625 on air and temps are just barely pushing 70 in a sub-optimal position (2nd 16x slot as opposed to the first 16x slot).
It's just an average, which is why I pointed to looking through some rankings to get a better view of watercooled overclocks.