A few weeks ago I got my Asus 780 with reference cooler and whilst waiting for the delivery I splashed out on the appropriate ek full cover block and back plate to go with it.
The problem is that I still have the block and the backplate sitting in a drawer waiting to be installed because I just cant bring myself to install them onto the card meaning removing the titan cooler.
I'm not a huge overclocker. I went for watercooling mainly because its quiet and when I was running my 580 phantom, the noise was far too loud for my wife as my pc is in the lounge (she loves my mechanical keyboard
) The titan cooler just isn't loud at all. Temps never exceed 80c on the card and it barely breaks a whisper.
The other problem is that when I bought the block I also upgraded to a 360mm x 45mm rad to go with it and thats been installed so the cpu is almost super cool and the machine is very quiet but its overkill for cooling a 3770k which usually runs only a mild overclock.
I'm just after a few opinions really. Should I remove the lovely cooler and install a pretty much non-descript waterblock or keep the lovely titan-esq lump on the side of the card.
Opinions welcome.