To get some things out of the way first, this is not my first time watercooling. There is no overclocking taking place on any of the hardware in this rig. Anyways, I consider myself to be quite versed and experienced with computer hardware, as I am a modder, but this has got me scratching my head.
I normally think of water cooling as a way to get the best performance and lower temps in the best ways possible. I'm not seeing that at the moment. My predicament is that I seem to be getting worse temps if not the same fully watercooled compared to air cooling. As of right now I am watercooling the CPU and 2 GPU's in crossfire with 2 rads in the loop. My idle temps on the GPU's are normally 35c as well as the CPU if not lower. With the load temps for the GPU's hanging around 78-80c, mind you I am also running a 3 monitor Eyefinity setup. I get awesome framerates in BF3 around the 100fps mark avg, though it still crashes every ~5mins. all settings on high settings. After some other readings and experience with these cards pre and post watercooling my temps now aren't any much different. Hardware is as Follows:
-Case: Corsair 600t white
-mobo: Asus p9x79pro
-CPU: i7 3820
-RAM: 4x2gb Ripjaws Z Series ddr3 2133 F3-17000CL9Q-8GBZH
-GPU1: HIS Radeon 7970
-GPU2: HIS Radeon 7970
-PSU: XFX 1050w Proseries Black Edition
-GPU waterblocks: Swiftech Komodo fullcover waterblock
-SSD: Corsair Force3 180gb
-HDD: WD 640gb(storage)
-2x120mm rad push from xspc 750rs kit
-200mm phobia rad push/pull
-xspc dual bay res/pump combo with Alphacool VPP655 Variable Speed Pump
I normally leave the side panel off. But back to the issue. Its quite disappointing to put all this time and money into a watercooled rig for it to get beat by air cooled systems. Anyone with some thoughts please respond. Will have some pics of the rig up soon either on here or in the watercooling forum. And if anyone is still having trouble with running BF3 in Crossfire Eyefinity please let me know. Thanks.
I normally think of water cooling as a way to get the best performance and lower temps in the best ways possible. I'm not seeing that at the moment. My predicament is that I seem to be getting worse temps if not the same fully watercooled compared to air cooling. As of right now I am watercooling the CPU and 2 GPU's in crossfire with 2 rads in the loop. My idle temps on the GPU's are normally 35c as well as the CPU if not lower. With the load temps for the GPU's hanging around 78-80c, mind you I am also running a 3 monitor Eyefinity setup. I get awesome framerates in BF3 around the 100fps mark avg, though it still crashes every ~5mins. all settings on high settings. After some other readings and experience with these cards pre and post watercooling my temps now aren't any much different. Hardware is as Follows:
-Case: Corsair 600t white
-mobo: Asus p9x79pro
-CPU: i7 3820
-RAM: 4x2gb Ripjaws Z Series ddr3 2133 F3-17000CL9Q-8GBZH
-GPU1: HIS Radeon 7970
-GPU2: HIS Radeon 7970
-PSU: XFX 1050w Proseries Black Edition
-GPU waterblocks: Swiftech Komodo fullcover waterblock
-SSD: Corsair Force3 180gb
-HDD: WD 640gb(storage)
-2x120mm rad push from xspc 750rs kit
-200mm phobia rad push/pull
-xspc dual bay res/pump combo with Alphacool VPP655 Variable Speed Pump
I normally leave the side panel off. But back to the issue. Its quite disappointing to put all this time and money into a watercooled rig for it to get beat by air cooled systems. Anyone with some thoughts please respond. Will have some pics of the rig up soon either on here or in the watercooling forum. And if anyone is still having trouble with running BF3 in Crossfire Eyefinity please let me know. Thanks.
