Best 980 ti / water cooling

[jcandas]

Hello everyone.

I am building a new gaming rig and want experienced opinions on the best 980 ti to water cool.

i7 5930
Rampage V
64 gb ram (haven't decided what speed yet, CAS vs clock vs price etc...)
2 way SLI - ( I am looking at the EVGA Hydro Copper, but open to other options)
I will be using a full to ultra tower, so room shouldn't be an issue.

One caveat, I am completely new to water cooling, so I don't know if there are limitations to look out for in a GPU with a stock block or if it is preferred.

I guess my noob question is "Is there anything I am possibly missing out on if I go with the EVGA Hydro Copper?"

Thanks in advance : )

 

[gilbadon]

EVGA hydro copper is very popular and works very well. There is no problem with it. If you want to go for something else, buy an EK waterblock. They make them for all different types of PCB's for different types of GPU manufacturers such as the asus strix.

 

[spagalicious]

EK is supposed to make some pretty excellent waterblocks, I've heard plenty of peole have positive experiences with their Titan/980 Ti blocks.

As far as the best 980 Ti to watercool, any would suffice. However, I read something about the EVGA Kingpin cards having the highest binned silicon and will likely overclock the best when compared to other 980 Ti's. Of course, the card is not out yet and it is hard to say whether or not that will have a meaningful impact in terms of OC performance over other Ti's.

Also, why 64Gb of ram? Definitely overkill, save yourself some cash and buy half or even a fourth that amount of high frequency/low CL dimms.

Hope this helps!

 

[jcandas]

Also, why 64Gb of ram? Definitely overkill, save yourself some cash and buy half or even a fourth that amount of high frequency/low CL dimms.

Hope this helps!

I am future proofing system, the difference in price is as low as $200 between similarly ranked kits. I have considered 32GB already, I might go that route but it is 64 GB to start and I will see where it goes.

Thanks

 

[spagalicious]

I am future proofing system, the difference in price is as low as $200 between similarly ranked kits. I have considered 32GB already, I might go that route but it is 64 GB to start and I will see where it goes.

Thanks

By all means, buy the hardware you want and I know this isn't a build suggestion subsection. But there will likely be improved ram (DDR5, HBM, 3D Xpoint) by the time any application could utilize anything close to 64 Gb of ram, let alone 32. Just something to thing about is all, servers are really the only application I could think of that could utilize that much ram. Plus that money could go to something even sweeter for your build, like the new Acer X34 Predator or a couple SSDs in RAID.

Have fun with the new build!