Quote (maulepan @ Feb 23 2016 03:26pm)
2 questions...
First: What exactly is the benefit of your card running at 45C?? The overclock on watercooled grafic cards is not that much better then on air cooled ones.
Second: How exactly is a cooler grafic card make your "room" run cooler???
EDIT: Also why would a air cooled grafic card heat up your other components. You usually have the exhaust fan right over the grafic card to remove the hot air from the case.
The overclock is much better on a water cooled card, on a water cooled 980Ti, you can hit 1500Mhz without a hitch and hit 1600Mhz most of the time.
The cooler gfx card won't make his room cooler, I agree with that.
Air cooled card will have some residual heat around it so it can heat up other components a little but not by much where it makes a difference that will affect the system as long as you have good air flow in your system.
Quote (maulepan @ Feb 23 2016 03:52pm)
If your GPU blows hot air into your CPU then you set up a terrible airflow. That is a problem that should only occur in mini-ITX cases but not in regular mid-towers
Also longevity? These chips are build to operate at high temperatures. The GTX 970 is rated until 98C.
But i give you the more stable overclock, also sadly it is not that much. Watercooling only starts to shine when you run more then one GPU.
EDIT: But we dont have to argue about it now. He will post his results tomorrow and then we can compare it to a regular air cooled card.
Lol, it makes the exact same difference with one card or three cards.
The possible overclock is much more then you think. Also, even if the card is rated to operate at a higher temperature, it is better if it doesn't run as hot as it can, it will last longer.
Quote (itzpookiie @ Feb 23 2016 04:10pm)
If something produces less heat overall wouldnt that mean everything in and around it will also have less heat?
Even if I have good airflow, less heat means less heat
Question
Does more heat with good airflow run cooler than less heat with good airflow?
Why would you let it run at 78C normally when you can run it at 40c?
Are you seriously saying less temp overall is not worth extra $50?? lol
Less heat is always good.
Is it worth the $50, it depends on what you plan to do with it. If you don't plan to overclock at all, then not worth it.
Quote (maulepan @ Feb 23 2016 04:28pm)
Well a 980ti costs like 600. Meaning that you need about 8% performance benefit to make it worth it from a economic point of view. Lets wait for the test result and see.
But if the last 50MHz you can get out of your card is worth a price premium to any individual... well i cant judge that.
Also a cooler card does not mean in produces less heat. It simply means that the cooling is more efficiant in getting the heat away from the card into the surrounding area. Good for small form factors. Marginal benefit in regular cases.
You don't only need to get 8% performance benefit, you got to factor in that the longevity of the card is higher as well, but you will get 10-20% performance increase as well.
50Mhz lol, you can achieve that with any card. And your right water cooled cards doesn't mean it produces less heat, it only means it is a lot more efficiently cooled.