watter cooling for gpu and cpu

jkantar65

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For your components, I think aircooling is fine. They just won't get hot enough if you are looking at performance being limited by air. My 7600k is OC'd to 4.6Ghz in a small NCASE M1 using Noctua NH-U9S cooler. This is paired with a GTX 970 blower style aircooler that maxes in higher 70s gaming. This is my HTPC occasional gaming build. For higher end components bigger AIOs or custom loops can allow for high OC's on some CPUs and boost clocks on GPUs as temps stay lower. Modern Nvidia cards start lowering boost bins at around 58C.
Why do you want to use water cooling in your build? To get better looks? Do note that you won't gain any cooling performance if you go with water cooling since both are still cooled by air.

But to answer your question, you can either go with AIOs or custom made water cooling loop. I'll explain the AIOs since custom made water cooling loops are a niche market and i don't know enough about those to give you any suggestions. Mostly because as name suggests, those water cooling loops are custom made to suit each person's specific taste and needs.

Since your case supports up to 280mm rad as front intake and also as top exhaust, for CPU, feel free to pick any 240mm or 280mm rad, e.g
Corsair H100i v2: http://www.corsair.com/en-eu/hydro-series-h100i-v2-extreme-performance-liquid-cpu-cooler
NZXT Kraken x62: https://www.nzxt.com/products/kraken-x62

pcpp: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/CrDzK8,2RdFf7/

For GPU you need NZXT Kraken G12 mounting kit and any Asetek design AIO,
Kraken G12: https://www.nzxt.com/products/kraken-g12-black.
Asetek AIOs: https://www.asetek.com/desktop/do-it-yourself/

You can then set up your AIO system like so:
GPU AIO to the front as intake
CPU AIO to the top as exhaust

End result would look like this:
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For your components, I think aircooling is fine. They just won't get hot enough if you are looking at performance being limited by air. My 7600k is OC'd to 4.6Ghz in a small NCASE M1 using Noctua NH-U9S cooler. This is paired with a GTX 970 blower style aircooler that maxes in higher 70s gaming. This is my HTPC occasional gaming build. For higher end components bigger AIOs or custom loops can allow for high OC's on some CPUs and boost clocks on GPUs as temps stay lower. Modern Nvidia cards start lowering boost bins at around 58C.
 
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My MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 3G in my Skylake build currently idles around 59°C while the max what i've seen out of it was 66°C during Unigine Superposition benchmark test. Of course, i also have 6x 140mm and 1x 120mm case fans in my Corsair 760T v2 ATX full-tower case to keep my temps within reason. I also have Demciflex filters in use to keep the dust out of my case internals. Full specs with pics in my sig.
 


 
Just by looking the GPU you can tell if it's part of the OC series, Armor series or Gaming X series.

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Armor series
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Gaming X series
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Armor and Gaming X series GPUs have Zero Frozr feature where when your GPU reaches 60°C, GPU fans start turning. OC series fans turn all the time.
For cooling aspect, Gaming X series has the best cooling due to the Torx 2.0 fans. Armor series has Torx fans while OC series has regular fans.

You said that you have good airflow. How many case fans you actually have? And how are the fans positioned?
 


 
MSI Gaming X series GPUs are one of the best (if not the best) GPUs which have the best cooling and quietest operations compared to the other brands (e.g Asus or EVGA). With sufficient enough airflow and without any dust buildup, your GPU should be at similar temps as mine is.

What program you use to check the GPU temp?

I, personally, use 2 different programs to confirm the temps shown by both programs.
1. Speccy (nice GUI and easy to use),
link: https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy/download
2. HWinfo64 (a lot more detailed + has logging feature),
link: https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

At this given point in time, both the Speccy and HWinfo64 show that my MSI Gaming X is at 56°C.

Do you have any OC on your GPU? If so, remove the GPU OC. If not, try using MSI Gaming App and set your GPU to run in "Silent mode",
link: https://www.msi.com/blog/msi-gaming-app-article

When was the last time you opened up your case and cleaned the PC internals from dust?

And how's the cable management in your PC? Since when you have ratsnest of cables: it doesn't look good, it's great dust magnet and it also restricts the airflow inside the case. With poor case fans, it can reduce the airflow inside your case to non-existent.
Further reading: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1858957/airflow-101-setting-fans-keeping-computer-cool.html