WYP
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Turn your Titan V into an insanely powerful single-slot GPU.
Read more about EK's Titan V water block.
Read more about EK's Titan V water block.
EK released their EK-FC Titan V water block
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I bet kaap already has 4 
The_Governour
New member
I wonder if there is any deserved performance gains under water or not.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Yeah there totally will be. Loads, IMO.
My XP is hot enough and boosts to 2100-2150 solid under water. You would never ever get that sort of cooling out of a FE cooler. Maybe 1900 if you were lucky, and you would have to put up with all sorts of noise.
FE cooler is fine for benching and having some fun with, but not for prolonged gaming sessions. It's fine on the 1080 and below, but once it got to the Ti it started to creak a little.
The_Governour
New member
I have a 1080ti under water and it gets a bit better but not a lot. Had AMP extreme before.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Huge triple slot card vs FE. I am not surprised you didn't gain much. Things like the Strix, and that AMP are hardly worth water cooling unless you want the drop in sound.
As I say, the FE cooler was fine until the Ti. Then it became to struggle and you lose 15% in clocks and performance unless you slap it under water and let it do a full boost.
Avet
Active member
Oh yeah. Titans and 1080Tis with stock coolers are desperate for watter. Aftermarket coolers are doing good job with cooling them, but not reference nvidia ones. Titan V is almost pointless without AIO or full block.
Here is GNs review with hybrid card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZcxBP8rNCY
Kaapstad
Active member
The cooler on the Titan V is different to the 1080 Ti or Titan Xp, you notice this as soon as you pick up the Volta card it is quite a bit heavier.
The cooler on the Titan V works quite well but like all reference NVidia coolers can be a bit noisy.
As to GamersNexus and water cooling the Titan V it probably adds about another 5% performance to the card. Having said that my air cooled Titan V is above their watercooled card in all but one of the futuremark benches and I could probably make it a whitewash if I could be asked to run Firestrike Extreme again.
Avet
Active member
It depends on the use case. If you are ok with the noise, you can survive with it. Liquid cooling hasn't always been good price/performance purchase. It is for enthusiasts. But that nVidia reference coolers could, and should be better is a fact.
Kaapstad
Active member
Both AMD and NVidia reference coolers work perfectly for what they are designed to do.
A reference cooler must work under all possible conditions found in a users case, this includes very small cases or ones with bad air flow where an AIB partner non reference cooler would fail badly.
The downside of this is reference coolers can be a bit noisy, a compromise both vendors make to ensure that their cards function.
Reference coolers are not cheap or nasty they are just different and sometimes more expensive than those found on very high end non reference cards. The cooler on the GTX 690 was very expensive for NVidia to produce for example.
I actually find reference Nvidia coolers very good quality and still by far the best exhaust cooler there is. Considering 99% of AIB have more than one fan and this one is pushing out everything from one fan, it does a good job albeit sacrificing noise for performance.
If it wasnt for the fact I WC everything, I would be happy to say it even "looks" more aesthetically pleasing than any other AIB cooler. No one else has designed such a simplistic metal looking cooler as good as this yet.
Dawelio
Active member
Personally I really like the simplistic design of AMD’s Frontier Edition cards, not just because I’m a bit of a sucker for blue colour, and their blue colour is just spot on, but the simple, clean and sleek cooler design is just neat in my opinion.
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Personally I really like the simplistic design of AMD’s Frontier Edition cards, not just because I’m a bit of a sucker for blue colour, and their blue colour is just spot on, but the simple, clean and sleek cooler design is just neat in my opinion.
Yeah I thought about that too. I really do like the brushed metal finish to it. I just think its ruined by the non neutral colouring which is hard to match in a build where you may use red or green, and also the "R" on the corner. Just distracts me too much.
Kaapstad
Active member
I like the finish on the Vega64 AIO card and the reference RX480 is nice too.
