That's_Corporate
[H]ard|Gawd
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Okay, I've been doing a ton of homework on watercooling, namely delta T and all that good stuff. I crunched some numbers and found out to reach the 'magic' 5 degree delta T mark, on either an overclocked video card or CPU, I'll need a triple 120 rad with some decent fans. That's looking quite costly and I'd need to cut up a case pretty bad to fit those two loops in there.
Then I got to thinking; At the res that I use on my 30" monitor, am I really going to notice an FPS difference between a 4.2 ghz i7 on water or a 4.0 ghz i7 on air? Next thought was; do I mind the extra noise that a TRUE on the i7 would give me. Absolutely not. From what I've seen though, overclocking/volting something like a 5970 does indeed yield some pretty impressive FPS gains at high resolutions (which I'd be gaming at).
So if I don't mind the extra noise from putting a TRUE on my i7 and I don't care about the lower overclock on the CPU from not having it on water, is the best FPS-wise solution to overclock my video card only?
I ask because I can honestly say, I've never seen it done in all the WC builds I've looked at.
Then I got to thinking; At the res that I use on my 30" monitor, am I really going to notice an FPS difference between a 4.2 ghz i7 on water or a 4.0 ghz i7 on air? Next thought was; do I mind the extra noise that a TRUE on the i7 would give me. Absolutely not. From what I've seen though, overclocking/volting something like a 5970 does indeed yield some pretty impressive FPS gains at high resolutions (which I'd be gaming at).
So if I don't mind the extra noise from putting a TRUE on my i7 and I don't care about the lower overclock on the CPU from not having it on water, is the best FPS-wise solution to overclock my video card only?
I ask because I can honestly say, I've never seen it done in all the WC builds I've looked at.