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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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Yeah, I wouldn't invest in water cooling the 380.
Given the latest cards, it's pretty average, and a decent water block will be ~$100, and you'll never be able to sell it when you move on.
Probably better off putting that money to a new card, especially since none of the latest need water cooling.
 
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what do you mean don't need water cooling, I want to watercool the rx 480
 
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I wouldn't recommend watercooling a cheaper card. If you're willing to put up ~$400-$500 for a custom loop (assuming you don't already have one installed, if you do it's still ~$300-400) and a card... just... get a better card. 400-500 buys you a GTX 1070. Or a better 4xx series card once they come out. You can certainly do it... but it's never recommended to watercool a cheap card.
 
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Thing is im going to watercool my amd fx-8350 anyway, I might as well watercool my gpu. Because i hate the noise the gpu fans make under heavy gaming.
 
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I'm going to doubly recommend that you just invest that money into a new build... Especially if you're going full out custom loop on this. Put that money to a new build instead of trying to watercool a subpar build to get a few MHz out of overclocking it.
 
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Well I asumed that you said it is pointless to watercool the r9 380 so im asking about the rx 480

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Ahhh, gotcha. The 480 runs much cooler than the 380. 150w vs 190w, so that shouldn't need water cooling either.
I used to have a custom water setup, but I changed cards every 2 years or so, and it got pretty expensive buying a new block every time, and also a pain in the arse partially draining and re-filling the loop.
After 2 cards or so, I gave up and just kept the cpu water cooled.
 
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Ahhh, gotcha. The 480 runs much cooler than the 380. 150w vs 190w, so that shouldn't need water cooling either.
I used to have a custom water setup, but I changed cards every 2 years or so, and it got pretty expensive buying a new block every time, and also a pain in the arse partially draining and re-filling the loop.
After 2 cards or so, I gave up and just kept the cpu water cooled.[/quotemsg]

Well what if i sell my r9 380 then try to get my hands on the rx 480 and just watercool my cpu would that be a good idea?
 
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Well what if i sell my r9 380 then try to get my hands on the rx 480 and just watercool my cpu would that be a good idea?
 
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Why do you want to watercool your computer? Is it to boost performance?

As for the GPU, if that's what you're willing to do then yes that sounds like an alright idea. I wouldn't pair an 8350 with anything more powerful than a 480/gtx 970.
 
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The 8350 runs pretty hot at 125w and could benefit a little from water, but it's a 2012 cpu, and TBO, it wasn't even that great back then.

IF you do water, make sure you get something compatible with your next cpu and board, but as said, I'd also just hold onto that money and put it towards a new system in the next year or two.
The current gen Intel chips are all around 60-80w, but more importantly, they are incredibly fast, and won't run anywhere near to 100% unless you're pushing 2x GTX 1080s... so they don't benefit from water either.
 
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Yeah Im aware of that and thats why I want to have a fx-8350 with the rx 480. Im water cooling because I want to overclock, really hate the fan noise and honestly think watercooling looks great
 
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Even so... I can't in my right mind recommend that you watercool a piledriver CPU simply because you want to overclock... and because it looks cool. A cryorig h7 and an i5 6600k/i7 6700k will run your CPU in circles and will have low fan noise. You could even bump it up to an h5 for a 140mm fan (but less RAM clearance) for even less noise. How large is your CPU fan?
 
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I know Im probably gonna get hate for this but I personaly like amd over intel. Because you get almost the same performance for less price. And considering that im a teen who doesn't have alot of money amd is the way to go
 
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I honestly almost bought the cryorig h7 cooler but then i dont want to waste more money to water cool it later, Ik that the fx-8350 isnt amazing but i dont have enough money to go for another build
 
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Intel literally runs AMD into the ground. It's alright to have a preference, but as an AMD fanboy myself... AMD gets bulldozed. (see what I did there?) there's also the other option of, as a teenager without much money, to go with an i3 for better single core performance. But, once all the cores are used you do lose some to the 8350... but that's losing some in a dual core vs octa core race. Intel has quad cores that outpace AMDs octa cores by miles. Nevermind when comparing Intel's octa cores to AMDs octa cores. I get the budget thing, but with Intel you do pay a little bit of an overpriced point... but for the majority of it, you get what you pay for.

On another note, do you know how much a custom loop is?
 
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Yes I do, and now i feel like i totally should do a different build but don't quite know what to start exchanging

 
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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, 4.4GHz motherboard allowing. And the 480 if you need the better GPU. Would definitely take a 480 over a 380.
 
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well whats a good intel cpu under 250 then if im gonna upgrade
 
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and my fx 8350 was 150$ and comes standard 4ghz (4.2 turbo boost)
 
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