AiO water cooling for GTX 1070 Strix?

[QwerkyPengwen]

as the title describes.

The reason I am looking into this is because of the fact that the higher the temps go the lower the clock speed gets. It does this incrementally and quite aggressively.

On top of that, it seems to intelligently recognize when the load on the GPU is extreme and would just assume the temps would go really high so it forces the voltage to drop down closer to 1021mV which cause the clock speeds to go down to under 1900Mhz which I don't like.
The example I give for this is when I run the Unigine Superposition Benchmark in 1080p Extreme mode. In fact, the only time I can get it to not do this when running the benchmark is when I use any mode less than 1080p Medium. Going to medium or higher results in the card doing this.

So what I want to know is if there is an AiO solution that is fairly plug and play for the Strix 1070 that is competent enough to grant me lower temps when under load allowing for the GPU to not auto drop my voltage and clock speeds combined just to "keep it cool". Otherwise, I will obviously have to look into a custom loop with an EK block because even when running a regular game with moderately high settings, as the temps go from the 50s to the 60s it drops the mV from 1093 to 1081 back and forth which when the mV drops by one increment like that I immediately lose 13Mhz of speed and then it'll also just drop the speed by 13Mhz increments on top of that to supposedly "keep it from getting to hot" and to follow some kind of stupid curve profile that is baked into it. Which means that if I want to get the speeds I know I can on this card, I need to keep it cold, and the built in air cooling that it has just isn't good enough for that.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

There are custom aftermarket coolers like the raijintek morpheus II and artic freezer accelerato. Couple that with high static pressure fans like the noctua industrial (run it at lower speeds if the noise bother you), u can see some pretty decent Temps.

You also have the option to choose ur choice of thermal paste. So liquid metal? Y not XD

Couple those fans to msi afterburner custom fan profile and you are done.

Look at some reviews of these aftermarket coolers and decide for yourself.

 

[QwerkyPengwen]

There are custom aftermarket coolers like the raijintek morpheus II and artic freezer accelerato. Couple that with high static pressure fans like the noctua industrial (run it at lower speeds if the noise bother you), u can see some pretty decent Temps.

You also have the option to choose ur choice of thermal paste. So liquid metal? Y not XD

Couple those fans to msi afterburner custom fan profile and you are done.

Look at some reviews of these aftermarket coolers and decide for yourself.

Can you confirm that these aftermarket coolers would lower the temps enough the effect the clock speeds in a significant way that would make it worth the cost of getting them along with better fans and redoing the thermal paste? I'm not made of money so it would have to be worth it. According to my calculations, the temps would need to be able to go down to at least 15c lower to make it worth it. Currently my temps when under load while the fans are at 80% with an open case are about 62c and that puts my clock speed at 1949Mhz when playing Ghost Recon Wildlands at 1080p with ultra settings to stress it. So if I could get down to about 45c, maaaaybe 50c, when using that game to test the temps at standard load, then that would give me the necessary boost I need to get higher clocks even in Superposition. Unless superposition is just always going to stress my card hard enough that it won't matter.

BTW, I am already overclocked as far as I can go, which is +114 on the core with unlocked voltage and voltage at max along with max power and temp limit which is 112 for power and 92 for temps along with a +450 on the memory. Can't go any further and with this I get that 1949Mhz when at 62c and 80% fan speeds with an open case in a fairly cool environment.

So yeah, if the aftermarket option would get me low enough temps to give me at least 3 increases in clock speeds (39Mhz) to bring me up to 1987Mhz at least then I might consider it, otherwise I might just look into custom loop which will guaranteed get me to 2Ghz.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Those high static pressure fans by itself can drop down about 5 c. The beefy heatsink will help another 5 and if you use liquid metal, I think ur 15 c is guaranteed in games. Superposition will always be stress ur card.

The guy at optimum tech did a comparison of morpheus and accelerato. Go check it out.

 

[QwerkyPengwen]

Those high static pressure fans by itself can drop down about 5 c. The beefy heatsink will help another 5 and if you use liquid metal, I think ur 15 c is guaranteed in games. Superposition will always be stress ur card.

The guy at optimum tech did a comparison of morpheus and accelerato. Go check it out.

oof. I just looked up the coolers you were talking about. those are air coolers. I am looking for water cooling. At this point I will assume that there is no good option for AiO aftermarket. So I will just have to go with custom and get a waterblock from EK along with a kit. Thanks for the help.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

There is the kraken G12. But I wouldn't recommend that for cooling or overclocking. It's good for outputting the heat outside the case. That's all.

 

[Karadjgne]

Do you really need to have power and voltages set at max to maintain stability? I've got 270MHz on boost and 860MHz on memory over factory clocks on my Asus 970 yet power limits are at 114 (can go to 125) and voltage was an additional 10mv. Adding too much voltage, when not needed is only going to add massive amounts of heat for no good reason. I'd be inclined to worry more about perfecting your OC than temps, even if a better combo is just 440 on the memory allowing a good drop in voltages and resultant heat/stress on the gpu. Only thing that's going to cost is time experimenting.

 

[QwerkyPengwen]

There is the kraken G12. But I wouldn't recommend that for cooling or overclocking. It's good for outputting the heat outside the case. That's all.

Yeah, I'm figuring that I'll just invest into a custom loop. Thanks for the help.