Waterblock for r9 380

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levmax777

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I'm planning on watercooling but cant find a water block for the r9 380. Can someone plz give a link to one or if there isn't one, tell me if it would be better selling my r9 380 and bying amd's new rx 480 and water cooling that.
 
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I wouldn't worry about exchanging. I would worry about pretty much... everything being new. Unless you want to go with Haswell instead of Skylake to save the DDR3, which leaves you less room to possibly upgrade later. You can certainly save some things like the case, the PSU until it dies... but virtually everything else is going to be new. You're talking about a new GPU, a new CPU, which requires a new motherboard, which may or may not require new RAM.

All that being said, your computer should just be hitting some minor bottlenecks now, and there shouldn't be all that many as of right now. I would grab a slightly better cooler (h7 or h5) and ride that out. On air, you should be able to get a mild overclock on your CPU. Say, 4.3...
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And has roughly (If straight numbers are to be believed) 50% less IPC. Core clock is not the only consideration of how good a CPU is, otherwise AMD would rule the market given that Intel still has yet to come out with a CPU that hits 5GHz. AMD did that years ago, yet their CPUs still get destroyed by Intel. Instructions Per Clock is just as important as clock speed.
 
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