GTX 970 SLI liquid Cooling?

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Hello everyone hows life?
Ok so, I have a Evga GTX 970 and a MSI 970 at SLI.

What I want to know is should I go for the Kraken G10 for both of them and then a small liquid cooling corsair or something?

The reason being is I plan on getting an ultra-wide curved 35 inch 3440x1440 IPS 100Hz G-SYNC monitor and when I play games now at 1920 X 1080 60hz on ultra the temp for the gpus is between 70-80 C. (Doesn't pass 80 c)

I feel concerned that playing games for 1-5 hours especially on 3440x1440 IPS 100Hz G-SYNC might be concerning. If I get liquid cooling for both of the gpus I suspect it will be between 50-60 C.

Should I do it or is that temp ok?
 
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the temps will not change with new monitor.
instead of investing 200+ in liquid, you would gain more performance by selling your 2x970 and getting single GTX 1080 or whatever will be released in few months be it vega/volta or 1080Ti
3.5GB of vRAM is getting to the "not enough" area with higher resolutions (that's what you have with SLI).
this change will also lower your temperatures
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the temps will not change with new monitor.
instead of investing 200+ in liquid, you would gain more performance by selling your 2x970 and getting single GTX 1080 or whatever will be released in few months be it vega/volta or 1080Ti
3.5GB of vRAM is getting to the "not enough" area with higher resolutions (that's what you have with SLI).
this change will also lower your temperatures
 
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i would follow this mans wise words

 
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I seee, i hear that the GTX 1080 runs a little hot?
 
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From what i've seen in reviews, it runs just fine. the cards with custom cooling like EVGA, GB, Zotac, Asus are even running great.
it's 180watt part - it can't be running too hot. I have a GTX 1070 which is identical beside few cuda cores disabled and slightly lower power target. it was running on air below 60C all the time. With liquid it getting close to 50 with Heaven in loop for hours. And 30-40 in real gaming (depends on the game and ambient)
 
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If you really want the benefits of liquid cooling while still having the power of two cards, invest in a hybrid GTX 1080 like EVGA's card, Zotac's card, or MSI's Seahawk Card. But definitely upgrade those cards to a single 1080.
 
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^ "hybrids" are shit compared to normal liquid cooling. they usually cool only the GPU, the rest (ram and vrm) are cooled with air.
It's better to invest once in rad and pump and to buy full cover blocks. It will be cooling better and much quieter.
 
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