After my last thread i was about ready to start my custom water cooling loop for the components that i have, I was going to get a new case this week and start collection of the loop parts in the weeks to come having finished the loop in a month or two from now, but (and its a big but), i saw this video come up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iogqnEJBKRQ . Now this concerns me as what he brought up makes sense and it is not to water cool if it means degrading the 980ti to a 970 or an i7 to an i5, does this mean that i should stick with my noisy air cooling system for now, upgrade my cpu and gpu, then look at water cooling? I am completely happy with the performance of the computer as i am maxing out all the games i play with my 1080p 60hz monitor so i dont really see a need to upgrade to an i7 and a 980ti before i water cool. currently my build is;
Intel i5-6400
Gskill Ripjaws 16GB DDR4 2400MHZ
GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0
EVGA 750W Supernova
Gigabyte Z170 DH3P
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM HDD
ADATA Premier 240GB 6GB/s SSD
5 Deepcool TF120 Red's
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO
Corsair Spec 01 Case
Some Random CD drive for program installation and Ripping old CD's to WAV
So i guess my question is would i be making a big mistake water cooling my pc in a new case before i upgrade the parts, or should i upgrade the parts first then water cool the new parts?
The cpu water block will fit the new cpu so that is not an issue if the thought is to water cool now and upgrade when the computer is not longer able to run the games that i want at the speeds that i want.
Thanks for the help everyone!
Jason H
Intel i5-6400
Gskill Ripjaws 16GB DDR4 2400MHZ
GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0
EVGA 750W Supernova
Gigabyte Z170 DH3P
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM HDD
ADATA Premier 240GB 6GB/s SSD
5 Deepcool TF120 Red's
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO
Corsair Spec 01 Case
Some Random CD drive for program installation and Ripping old CD's to WAV
So i guess my question is would i be making a big mistake water cooling my pc in a new case before i upgrade the parts, or should i upgrade the parts first then water cool the new parts?
The cpu water block will fit the new cpu so that is not an issue if the thought is to water cool now and upgrade when the computer is not longer able to run the games that i want at the speeds that i want.
Thanks for the help everyone!
Jason H