**Overclocking a Graphics Card with Water Cooling**

I've been working on a project to overclock a graphics card with water cooling, and I'm excited to share my experience with you. In this article, I'll be discussing the benefits of water cooling for graphics cards, the challenges I faced during the process, and the results I obtained.

Firstly, let's talk about why water cooling is beneficial for graphics cards. One of the main advantages is that it allows for overclocking without causing excessive temperatures, which can damage the card over time. In fact, water cooling can help to reduce temperatures by up to 20-30 degrees Celsius, depending on the specific application and configuration.

To achieve this, I needed to choose a graphics card with good thermal performance. After researching various options, I settled on a card that was known for its ability to run cool even under high loads. Unfortunately, my chosen card had a design flaw that made it difficult to water cool effectively, which led to some unexpected challenges.

Despite the initial setbacks, I persevered and managed to find a solution that worked for me. The end result is a graphics card that runs extremely cold, even when pushed hard, with temperatures as low as 24 degrees Celsius at idle and 41 degrees Celsius under heavy load. This is impressive for any graphics card, and it's a testament to the effectiveness of water cooling.

One of the most surprising aspects of my project was how well the graphics card performed once I had it running cool. The frame rate increased significantly, with some games showing improvements of up to 200 frames per second. Additionally, the overclocking process itself became much more stable and reliable, thanks to the reduced temperatures.

However, I did encounter some difficulties during the overclocking process. Despite my best efforts, I found that the card would often crash or fail to stabilize at high frequencies. This was frustrating, but it ultimately led me to learn more about the intricacies of water cooling and graphics card design.

In the end, my project has been a success, despite some initial setbacks. The graphics card is running cool, performing well, and stable, which is exactly what I wanted to achieve. I'm excited to continue experimenting with different configurations and pushing the limits of what's possible with this system.

I'd also like to share that I've found an alternative solution to replace the shroud on my current water-cooled graphics card. This new design will provide a sleeker, more streamlined look for my future builds, while still maintaining excellent thermal performance.

Overall, my experience with overclocking a graphics card with water cooling has been eye-opening and educational. It's shown me the potential of this technology to unlock improved performance and longevity from my hardware. I'm excited to see where this journey takes me next, and I'm confident that the results will be impressive.

**Temperature Results**

As part of my project, I recorded some temperature readings for my water-cooled graphics card. These results are as follows:

* Idle temperature: 24 degrees Celsius

* Maximum temperature (under heavy load): 41 degrees Celsius

These temperatures demonstrate just how effective my water cooling setup has been in reducing heat buildup and maintaining stable performance.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, my experience with overclocking a graphics card with water cooling has been successful, despite some initial challenges. The end result is a system that runs extremely cool, performs well, and provides improved longevity for the hardware. I'm excited to continue exploring this technology and pushing its limits in future builds.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enguys welcome back to the show and this is going to be very different so what is so different well one we took a gigabyte rx 580 gamer overclocked edition video card on air and then we did a custom water loop to try it out water cooled now what was i trying to prove kind of hoping that in this whole idea we would get more performance definitely a lot cooler and what would happen if we were overclocking it the unfortunate part of this whole thing was the video card i used to do the water cooling was a video card that was actually hurt it was already damaged it was already giving me some grief and i figured water cooling it would save it as we can see here on the be quiet water be quiet water bench so on the be quiet test bench right now it's been running i'd say we've been doing this for about three weeks and i mean we're at a toastiness right now where we're actually sitting at 24 degrees idle now i'll bring up and show some results based on this first i want to talk about what i did the video card literally was customized so i took the shroud off cut the cooling heat sinks remounted the vrm heatsinks with new thermo pads put a custom water loop cool or a water block on and hosted out the back now that was for water cooling for water air i have the shroud coming down a little and i'll show you that in a minute and the fans which you're probably hearing in the background right now because they are loud are blowing on all the components to keep the vrm cool now i did get some successful benchmarks and i didn't get to record them because i thought i could do better doing so i may have done the card in for any type of use that way but i do have the card now running decent and cool and should have a decent life doing that for the use that it's going to get whether it be gaming or so on the card now performs as good or better than the fan cooled version of it so we're going to go and see some bar graphs that's right i did some bar graphs for you guys which actually took me a while too but anyway these bar graphs in the first part will be temps based on 3d mark pass mark and vr mark and then occt i actually ran it hard for 15 minutes now after that the slides will show performance differences did we get a gain now keep in mind a hurt card against this card is actually not hurt so this card performs darn good on air so what was i going to expect well here we go do okay so you can see that overall of course the card was much cooler on water which means if the car was healthy i would be able to overclock and do better performance and i did i i wish i had recorded it but it was something like uh 200 better on a score maybe and about i'm gonna say five percent better and about two percent better frames per second so that was the outcome when the card was healthy enough to do that now i find a card no matter what i do with my overclocking i tend to crash the overclock and don't get me wrong i'm no big bad overclocker but i was at one point running the card at 1500 megahertz this is an 1150 card and it was not crashing so unfortunately the wrong card was chosen for water cooling but i need that card to survive longer and now we will so in the end what did i get from this well i saved a card uh it's running cold there's no reason for this card to not perform or produce will it produce better gaming yes because now it's cooler therefore i will get some better frames per second and that's yet to see once i get this system built now i do have something else coming for it that's a little surprise to go in the system it's more for show hopefully it's got some go because i need it to work with this water cooled card as i want to replace the shroud as i cannot want to hear that in the background and i've been having a lot of issues with the shroud and fans running because it's based on thermos of your video card gpu for the fans to kick in well the the gpu isn't getting cold or sorry the gpu isn't getting warm so how's it going to kick the fans improper so i had to turn them on i now i can turn them down of course but my new plan is going to look a lot sharper and we'll have something really cool for you guys in the near future but anyway guys i spent three weeks doing this and what did we get a 10 to 8 minute video tops oh well it was a project that i wanted to do it was fun how i wanted to do it it didn't actually come out the way i was really hoping i really wanted the shroud to go right back on so it looked like an undercover card so the fans were working water pipes were going off the back but unfortunately when i was cutting the heatsink a disaster happened because you get impatient and you know 20 or 30 dollars later and cutting bits and i ended up screwing it up anyway again i'm no professional when it comes to slicing and dicing and whatever but turned out it worked i have it cold and that's all that matters again now since we've been running just to give you another update on the temperatures we are still at 24 degrees so i think it's running pretty darn cold 41 degree max even with uh being pushed hard is just damn impressive for any video card and if you run your stuff cold it's going to last longer and you're going to get a lot more performance out of your card just because it's running colder that is a given so guys until next time sorry to set the delay in the video but between my year-end doing paperwork trying to get this to work i was actually trying to get some overclock numbers unfortunately that failed so maybe next time we'll get some overclocking on my next build because there's definitely something else coming up in the works and guys till next time thank you so youguys welcome back to the show and this is going to be very different so what is so different well one we took a gigabyte rx 580 gamer overclocked edition video card on air and then we did a custom water loop to try it out water cooled now what was i trying to prove kind of hoping that in this whole idea we would get more performance definitely a lot cooler and what would happen if we were overclocking it the unfortunate part of this whole thing was the video card i used to do the water cooling was a video card that was actually hurt it was already damaged it was already giving me some grief and i figured water cooling it would save it as we can see here on the be quiet water be quiet water bench so on the be quiet test bench right now it's been running i'd say we've been doing this for about three weeks and i mean we're at a toastiness right now where we're actually sitting at 24 degrees idle now i'll bring up and show some results based on this first i want to talk about what i did the video card literally was customized so i took the shroud off cut the cooling heat sinks remounted the vrm heatsinks with new thermo pads put a custom water loop cool or a water block on and hosted out the back now that was for water cooling for water air i have the shroud coming down a little and i'll show you that in a minute and the fans which you're probably hearing in the background right now because they are loud are blowing on all the components to keep the vrm cool now i did get some successful benchmarks and i didn't get to record them because i thought i could do better doing so i may have done the card in for any type of use that way but i do have the card now running decent and cool and should have a decent life doing that for the use that it's going to get whether it be gaming or so on the card now performs as good or better than the fan cooled version of it so we're going to go and see some bar graphs that's right i did some bar graphs for you guys which actually took me a while too but anyway these bar graphs in the first part will be temps based on 3d mark pass mark and vr mark and then occt i actually ran it hard for 15 minutes now after that the slides will show performance differences did we get a gain now keep in mind a hurt card against this card is actually not hurt so this card performs darn good on air so what was i going to expect well here we go do okay so you can see that overall of course the card was much cooler on water which means if the car was healthy i would be able to overclock and do better performance and i did i i wish i had recorded it but it was something like uh 200 better on a score maybe and about i'm gonna say five percent better and about two percent better frames per second so that was the outcome when the card was healthy enough to do that now i find a card no matter what i do with my overclocking i tend to crash the overclock and don't get me wrong i'm no big bad overclocker but i was at one point running the card at 1500 megahertz this is an 1150 card and it was not crashing so unfortunately the wrong card was chosen for water cooling but i need that card to survive longer and now we will so in the end what did i get from this well i saved a card uh it's running cold there's no reason for this card to not perform or produce will it produce better gaming yes because now it's cooler therefore i will get some better frames per second and that's yet to see once i get this system built now i do have something else coming for it that's a little surprise to go in the system it's more for show hopefully it's got some go because i need it to work with this water cooled card as i want to replace the shroud as i cannot want to hear that in the background and i've been having a lot of issues with the shroud and fans running because it's based on thermos of your video card gpu for the fans to kick in well the the gpu isn't getting cold or sorry the gpu isn't getting warm so how's it going to kick the fans improper so i had to turn them on i now i can turn them down of course but my new plan is going to look a lot sharper and we'll have something really cool for you guys in the near future but anyway guys i spent three weeks doing this and what did we get a 10 to 8 minute video tops oh well it was a project that i wanted to do it was fun how i wanted to do it it didn't actually come out the way i was really hoping i really wanted the shroud to go right back on so it looked like an undercover card so the fans were working water pipes were going off the back but unfortunately when i was cutting the heatsink a disaster happened because you get impatient and you know 20 or 30 dollars later and cutting bits and i ended up screwing it up anyway again i'm no professional when it comes to slicing and dicing and whatever but turned out it worked i have it cold and that's all that matters again now since we've been running just to give you another update on the temperatures we are still at 24 degrees so i think it's running pretty darn cold 41 degree max even with uh being pushed hard is just damn impressive for any video card and if you run your stuff cold it's going to last longer and you're going to get a lot more performance out of your card just because it's running colder that is a given so guys until next time sorry to set the delay in the video but between my year-end doing paperwork trying to get this to work i was actually trying to get some overclock numbers unfortunately that failed so maybe next time we'll get some overclocking on my next build because there's definitely something else coming up in the works and guys till next time thank you so you