GPU of 2147 Mhz possible?

[Rose Redfoxx]

It's not seeming like it. I got the fastest video card in the game at level 21, a Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme 8g, which is 1936 Mhz, and it pegs at 2100 Mhz. >.< Is this possible and I am not seeing how?

Ok, need to find another card. Just tried a Zotac Geforce GTX 1080 Ti Amp Extreme. Even with voltage to the max (120%) it BSOD when I set the core to 2147 Mhz and the PSU is an 1100 W behemoth. Ah. I caught it finally, it over tempertured. Hmm...

Ok, managed it with custom water cooling, now to massage the parts list to accomidate the parts budget. >.< Should be able to with in $2370.

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More fans. Higher CFM fans. Water cool it.

[Turbo]

1070 and 1070 Ti should be able to hit that OC fairly easily, assuming you've got a good cooling solution. The 1060 can do it no problem. Also, as you seem to have already discovered, so can CWC GPUs.

[Rose Redfoxx]

Problem is I have, well, had three requirements. Benchmark of 8139, CPU of 5050, and GPU of 2147. Parts not to exceed $2370. Ran the numbers backwards and forwards, even on a CWL I couldn't get an 8700K up to 5050 with out throttling. Even with a 280 rad the CPU *idled* at 62 C, the next processor up, the 9700K, could but it put the whole build over $2400. I had factored in the Asus Tuf z3270 Pro , the cheapest Coffee Lake board, a Mortonic $20 fly by night special HDD, and the ST1100 Ti is priced at $100, can't go lower and still have enough wattage for a severly OC GPU. Everything else in the build was a fixed price that couldn't go lower. And, bizarrely enough, when I got the radiator and reservour plugged in the front fans had no where to plug into. I even put in some cheap 2133 memory to try and make it cheaper with no luck. After running the numbers, changing them to other things, testing, etc I couldn't get it to either no throttle (the 8700K) or not be so expensive it just over prices the whole build. So I rejected that job and will repurpose the parts I bought. >.<

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Originally posted by BelGarion:

Problem is I have, well, had three requirements. Benchmark of 8139, CPU of 5050, and GPU of 2147. Parts not to exceed $2370. Ran the numbers backwards and forwards, even on a CWL I couldn't get an 8700K up to 5050 with out throttling.

I hope you do realize you can chain together more than one radiator, right?

[Rose Redfoxx]

With the build as I had it, that would have negated the $700 to $400 cost savings by adding another $200 ish 120mm radiator. Not to mention having to remove the drive trays to accomidate it would negate the cost of a $20 Mortoni HDD by making me get an SSD or M.2. Let me see...

I7-8700 $400
EKWB Ek Supremacy CPU Block $300
Asus Tuf Z370 Pro Gaming $155
Adata Premium 4gb 2133 (x2) $70
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti w/ EKWB $760
Mortoni EZStore 120Gb $20
Silverstone ST1100 Ti $100
Define R5 $110
EKWB CoolStream SE 240 $230
EKWB EK XRes Revo D55 $220

Grand total of $2365. total budget allowed $2370. Water cooling is very limited on choices, but those are the cheapest, when that was an option (Like the CPU blocks are all $300, doesn't matter if it's plexi, nickle, or partial nickle). Cheapest motherboard. Cheapest HDD, cheapest PSU ($100 for 1100 watts? Nothing is cheaper per watt) . So, no room in the budget for a second rad and bigger case to accomidate it. Though I did try a FD Focus G case, it puts the resevour over the back fan mount and won't let me put a radiator in the roof, means removing the drive bays and putting the radiator on the front, means M.2 or SSD, means spending more than the $20 for the cheap fly by night HDD.

[Rose Redfoxx]

@Impending Rentacle Tape - I do have to ask, which case allows for that? I'm only level 22 so I don't have access to *all* the cases yet, I tried with the behemouth Corsair Carbide 740 Air and I got a single 280 in in the roof, the resevour insisted on installing right in the middle of the front 280 so I couldn't put a 280 there, wouldn't let me put a 280 radiator in the floor even though it'll let me install two 140mm fans there, and the rear 140 is blocked up by a tube so I can't even put a fan there. >.< I would try the even bigger EVGA cases but they're plagued, atm, with cable connect bugs. I got one in the closet that won't let me attach the front panel and reading the bug report forums, I am not the only one. >.<

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Originally posted by BelGarion:

@Impending Rentacle Tape - I do have to ask, which case allows for that? I'm only level 22 so I don't have access to *all* the cases yet, I tried with the behemouth Corsair Carbide 740 Air and I got a single 280 in in the roof, the resevour insisted on installing right in the middle of the front 280 so I couldn't put a 280 there, wouldn't let me put a 280 radiator in the floor even though it'll let me install two 140mm fans there, and the rear 140 is blocked up by a tube so I can't even put a fan there. >.< I would try the even bigger EVGA cases but they're plagued, atm, with cable connect bugs. I got one in the closet that won't let me attach the front panel and reading the bug report forums, I am not the only one. >.<

You currently get better cooling performance in PCBS in the amount of radiators not capacity of them. 4 x 120's would be higher cooling performance than two 240's or even two 360's.

[Rose Redfoxx]

O.o Right... That's crazy, but, I'll have to give that a whirl later. Thanks.

[Turbo]

Originally posted by BelGarion:

I do have to ask, which case allows for that?

Pretty much every case in the game will chain fans and rads together. It's not a completely perfect system though. Sometimes you have to play around with the order in which you chain them to get them to all hook up correctly.