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Water cooling and new CPU?

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January 22, 2014 7:59:15 PM

Right now I have an AMD FX-6300 and I'm interested in upgrading it to possibly the AMD FX - 8350. I am relatively new to hardware and computers in general, somewhat. I just built my first computer and I love it. Works great, haven't had any trouble with it, so I'm pretty happy with it. I'm pretty interested in water cooling, but I have no idea how to go about it. I could just buy a water cooling kit, and try and learn by myself, but I'm leaning more towards help from someone with more experience. Should I upgrade to the 8350 and water cool it, or should I try and water cool the processor I have now?
Also, is it possible to bride an Nvidia card with an AMD card? I've heard different terms so I'd just like to know because I an thinking about getting another graphics card, and I am not sure about which one to get.

Current PC-
AMD FX-6300
Nvidia GTX 660ti
1tb harddrive
8gbs of RAM
Carbide 300R Corsair case

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January 22, 2014 8:44:39 PM

You don't really need to water-cool if you know you're switching soon, but it's all up to you. Try an AIO cooler eg. Corsair H100i or H105 (whichever is cheaper) if you are going to try and water cool it. No, it's not possible to use both an Nvidia and AMD card in one system. You need the specs to be the SAME.
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January 22, 2014 9:31:35 PM

Nuclear101 said:
You don't really need to water-cool if you know you're switching soon, but it's all up to you. Try an AIO cooler eg. Corsair H100i or H105 (whichever is cheaper) if you are going to try and water cool it. No, it's not possible to use both an Nvidia and AMD card in one system. You need the specs to be the SAME.


Thanks for the answer! I was planning on getting an AMD 270x, but since I can't use both, should I just get a 760?
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January 22, 2014 10:44:05 PM

The GTX 760 wouldn't be much of an upgrade at all over your 660ti. If you can, it may be worth forking out the extra few bucks to get at least a GTX 770. If you can, try to get a 4GB version as games like BF4 are using more than 2GB even without anti aliasing. However your CPU may slow you down a tiny bit. You should try overclocking it to 4.5-4.7GHz. You don't need to get watercooling to achieve that. If you want a decent, quiet cooler, something as simple as the Hyper 212 evo is a great option for achieving 4.5-4.7GHz on your fx6300 and it only costs 30$. If you want to go all out, you should get a 8320, H80i watercooler, and a GTX 770 4GB or maybe even a GTX 780 if you really want to experience PC gaming.
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January 22, 2014 11:06:10 PM

I can tell you from my experience and using a CM Hyper 212 Evo for about a year and switching to water cooling on my FX-8120 I will never go back to air cooling again. I have the CPU overclocked to 4.2Ghz from the stock 3.1GHz using a CM Seidon 120XL and my temps while playing Battlefield 4 for 2 hours don't go over 43 degrees C. You would be able to gain some performance out of your current CPU by switching to a water cooling kit and overclocking it, might save you some money to spend on another graphics card vs. buying a new CPU and water cooling it.

As Nuclear101 stated you will only be able to run 2 cards together that are exactly the same. If you are looking for a new graphics card I can highly recommend the R9 280x, it handles all the most recent games with all the bells and whistles without breaking a sweat in my system. Plus you will add the capability to use Mantle in BF4 and other future games.
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January 23, 2014 8:10:55 AM

Normally I would agree with killakallies, however the 280x's price has skyrocketed to about 450$ for a decent one in the past couple weeks. They're normally about 300$! This is because of the damn bitcoin miners. So, unless you can find one for about 330$ or so, I would get a GTX 770 (Recommend the 4gb version) or go all out on a 500$ GTX 780.
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