GTX 1070 Seahawk X Overclock

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I'm relatively new to overclocking, my only prior experience being an overclock on my GTX 950.

Now that I'm rebuilding my system, I decided to get MSI's hybrid-cooled GTX 1070, mostly because its only a 60 dollar price difference to one of their air cooled cards, and to be quite honest it looks a lot nicer.

Anyway, despite my reasoning for buying the card, I definitely want to utilize the liquid cooling and overclock it as much as I can.

My question: is it safer/worth increasing the voltage on the card, since the GPU is liquid cooled? I know heat is a major reason as to why overvolting is dangerous, so am I correct in assuming that you could take the voltage higher with liquid cooling?

I already know to increase the power limit to as far as Afterburner will let me, but should I also adjust the voltage slider? If so, how far is safe.
 

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keep in mind on your 1070 its still a hybrid cooling card which means while the gpu is watercooled the vram is still cooled by a fan and that is usually the first thing to over heat on the gfx card. just try out your settings and if you do get a display driver crash just reboot and lower your settings until its stable.
 

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Is it safe to drag the voltage slider all the way to the right?
 

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basically if you set the voltage and you can run it stable without crashing and your temps are in check then there is no reason you couldnt