New GPU for my system? or liquid cooling?

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PrYmeChaos

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Hey guys my birthday is coming up and i was wondering if i would be better off upgrading my GPU or going full liquid cooling on my system and just over clocking my current GPU right now my system specs are

PC SPECS:
i5-4670k CPU
H80i Liquid CPU cooler
EVGA GEFORCE GTX 770 SC 2Gb GPU
Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H Motherboard
16Gb Crucial Ram
 
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geofelt
You will get no significant boost in performance with a top end liquid cooler.
Your graphics card is already factory overclocked. If the chip was a top bin, it would have been used in a FTW version, not your SC.
What does your pc not do now?

I might suggest a SSD for windows will be a most satisfying performance upgrade in general, not so much for games.

If you do web browsing a second monitor is most useful.
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geofelt

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You will get no significant boost in performance with a top end liquid cooler.
Your graphics card is already factory overclocked. If the chip was a top bin, it would have been used in a FTW version, not your SC.
What does your pc not do now?

I might suggest a SSD for windows will be a most satisfying performance upgrade in general, not so much for games.

If you do web browsing a second monitor is most useful.
 
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Gnuffi

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This right here:

Deffinetely new GPU

Considering Polaris(amd)/Pascal(nvidia) is rumoured to release april/may respectively, getting either of those would be the biggest improvement by far over a new liquid cooling.
Or if that wait is too long a 980/980ti, tho Polaris/Pascal should outdo those with supposed 8GB instead of 980 4gb and 980ti 6gb.
At the very least 980/ti should drop significantly in price when the new cards come very soon
 
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Gnuffi

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You could throw liquid nitrogen cooling on your current GPU and it would never be overclockable to any degree that a new card wouldn't completely floor your 770.
No amount of cooling would boost your GPU to the levels where it would be cost effective over buying a new card.
Modest spending on cooling, minimal gain in performance, save that money for another upgrade instead
 
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@ PrYmeChaos: You've got a very strong system, even the GTX770 isn't exactly shabby, why the upgrade?

Also, please provide info on your monitor/s, it's daft pairing a GTX980Ti with a 60Hz 1080 display, you'll have a blazingly fast system throttled to 60 FPS by the monitor!
 
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