Looking to watercool first time. Upgrade/Required component question.

shadowedfox · Feb 1, 2014

Hello,
My first time posting on the forums but I've read quite a lot from here. I was looking into upgrading my current system's cooling to water cooling. But I figured it might be worth upgrading my GPU while I'm doing it.

I was looking at perhaps upgrading to the GTX 770, R9 280x. However I don't know if the performance gain is going to be worth it. So I was wondering if it would be worth upgrading or just buying a GPU block and cooling my current card for the moment?

If I was to cool my card, which block would fit? As I know most 670 blocks are aimed at reference cards and I'm fairly sure that mine is not reference.

Current Specs:
I7 3770K
EVGA GTX 670 FTW Signature 2
Case: NZXT Phantom (Big version)

P.S.
Will be buying a full loop, for my CPU and GPU. It's also my first time fitting one so if anyone has any links to any beginners tips that would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

bryonhowley · Feb 1, 2014

Well as far as water cooling the GPU you are correct that most blocks are for reference boards. The other question would be do you really need to cool the GPU. The main advantage with current cards would be to make them quieter. But most coolers on GPU's anymore are quite abit more efficient that they were at one time. I know on my dual SLI GTX 670's I have never heard the fans even when playing games to several hours. And the temp's have never gone past about 65-70c.

As to replacing your current card I would say you should base that off of whether your GTX 670 is giving you the performance you want/need. If so then I would not replace it. I know for me I have been very happy with my GTX 670's and have not found any game I can't play.

As for a water cooling kit I would look for one of the XSPC 750 kits. They have everything you need for cooling the CPU,minus the coolant, on just about every socket type. And they are very good with quality parts. They are expandable so you can add GPU's into the loop if you choose to with no problems just get the correct block and fittings. I run the XSPC 750 EX360 kit in all three of my rigs and they work great.

To recap if your current GPU gives you what you want I would not upgrade it. But if the performance is not where you want to be then go for it. I just do not think upgrading just to upgrade is the correct way to go at least for me.

Sorry for the long post I tend to do that.

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