My guess is you've never overclocked a card past those garbage oc's you people put on them.

980 tis are still out performing 1080s on custom bios. You don't get that same shit on a air cooler.

I asked you for reasoning on why it's better, instead you just assume I know nothing. And then said some anecdotal stuff about a 980 TI being better than a 1080


This is pure gold. Keep talking

Dude, he said a 980Ti with a custom BIOS. Water cooled to boot.

This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 14 2016 04:53pm

Well since you wanna say it's made up here you go. Would you like the link to the post?



And since Ghot requested via pm.

Is there a general rule at what point a custom water loop along with overclocking gives better price vs performance than siimply buying "better" parts with cheaper air or AIO cooling?

When you push your cpu past 5 GHZ and have a vid card that can do a stable 2.1-2.2 GHZ

Full custom loop allows you to unlock a chips full potential for 24/7 usage.

The price vs performance standpoint is basically, Performance of the part you buy running at it's theoretical watercooled maximum vs a higher end part running at it's air cooled maximum.

IE. A 6600K running at 4.8-5 GHZ vs a 6700k running at 4.5ghz on air. This may take a bit of digging to find those specific benchmarks.

The chip Cost Delta is $100 in this case.

The water cooling Delta for a cpu block (divided out of a full loop) is roughly $150 for the block + fittings and tubing and 1/2 of a pump/reservoir/coolant.

TL:DR Go for the best parts you can and don't get a custom loop until you can put a custom loop on the best parts because the performance gain is 10% or less over a good AIO water cooler or good air cooler.

This post was edited by kclla on Aug 15 2016 08:56am