84C on stock cooler/curve, damn. That is pretty toasty. Interesting info! I expected ~73-75C on stock.
 
Sorry to hear about the GB X58OC Tucker, that's a shame it didn't fix your issue.

hallowen
OK, That's much Better.
 
Now with the Fan (i.e., Hair dryer) at 100%, The Max Temperature is 20C - 21C Cooler at 62C - 63C during the Time Spy Bench.
 

Nice

Halo_003
 
84C on stock cooler/curve, damn. That is pretty toasty. Interesting info! I expected ~73-75C on stock.

Yeah, Those Blower Air Coolers never seemed to be very efficient.
 

Cool GTX

hallowen
OK, That's much Better.
 
Now with the Fan (i.e., Hair dryer) at 100%, The Max Temperature is 20C - 21C Cooler at 62C - 63C during the Time Spy Bench.
 

Nice

I'm really Just looking at the Comparisons between Stock and Overclocked settings. 
 
In my testing, There's about only a 1065 Point difference in Time Spy Benches between a 1X Titan XP on Stock Settings/Air Cooling (9259) and Cranked up Max on Chilled Water Cooling (10324).
 
 
 
 

hallowen

Halo_003
 
84C on stock cooler/curve, damn. That is pretty toasty. Interesting info! I expected ~73-75C on stock.

Yeah, Those Blower Air Coolers never seemed to be very efficient.
 

Add a snorkel of insulated flex duct, connected to a 5 Gal. bucket of dry ice, to pre-cool the air

Hey Hallowen and crew what do you think about the EK GPU only blocks? I keep kicking around the idea of get a Powercolor Red Devil RX 480  and an EK Thermosphere block for it. Maybe an RX 490 when it releases... I figure a GPU only block would be a good route to take for now and prevents reliance on reference only cards.

The EK GPU Only blocks would be a good choice as Long as you use an ACX Graphics Card that have a VRM/Menmory Heat Plate that can be retained for air Cooling while the GPU is using water cooling.
 
When I used my "GPU Only" water block on the Nvidia Titan XP's, Since they did NOT have a separate Heat Plate, I had to install a "Shim" between the water block and the GPU to allow the water block to make good contact with the Chip due to the Blower Style Cooling that drops the top of the Chip about 1/8" below that type of Heat Sink.
 
THIS is why you noticed my Titan XP GPU Temps under Load was 59C-65C opposed to if the block was directly on the Chip which resulted in a GPU Temp of 41C-44C under Load.
 
The "Shim" I installed caused a cooling loss because it retained Heat under Full Loads.
 
After looking at the EK block on their Web Store, They show it is compatible with all the new Pascal Cards, But they also show NO Memory or VRM cooling plates/heat sinks and leave these components bare for "Open Air" cooling. 
 

That's very interesting, when I mentioned before that your 65C seemed high for water I didn't realize you had a shim between the core and the block. I don't believe that the Powercolor Devil RX480 has a heat plate for the VRM/VRAM, do you have any idea what I could do? Possibly heatsinks of some sort like these?
Edit: Actually come to think of it, it may not be that difficult to get something like this aluminum heatsink, cut it to size for the VRM, pop a couple holes in it and use some M2 screws/nuts to mount. Maybe. Worth looking into at least.
 
Maybe I would just be better off with a reference card if I go that route. I like the price point of the RX 480. I actually don't mind the price of GTX 1070, but I'm not paying that much for a cut down GP104. 

Halo_003
That's very interesting, when I mentioned before that your 65C seemed high for water I didn't realize you had a shim between the core and the block. I don't believe that the Powercolor Devil RX480 has a heat plate for the VRM/VRAM, do you have any idea what I could do? Possibly heatsinks of some sort like these?
Edit: Actually come to think of it, it may not be that difficult to get something like this aluminum heatsink, cut it to size for the VRM, pop a couple holes in it and use some M2 screws/nuts to mount. Maybe. Worth looking into at least.
 
Maybe I would just be better off with a reference card if I go that route. I like the price point of the RX 480. I actually don't mind the price of GTX 1070, but I'm not paying that much for a cut down GP104. 

I've used a similar cut down aluminum heat sink on my 980 Ti Classified VRM's (they run very Hot under loads) when I was using a SS Phase change on the GPU, But I didn't use any heat sinks on the memory chips which were not running hot during benchmarking tests.
 
I don't know what or how the Powercolor Devil RX480 cools the VRM/Memory on that card. They may just be Bare Chips with the Fans providing the cooling similar that the old EVGA GTX 560 Ti ACX cards used.

Found some Pics of a Powercolor Red Devil RX480 and it APPEARS to incorporate a Fixed Plate/Cooler design to cool All the GPU/VRM/Memory Chips which means to me that you would have to mount Separate Heat Sinks for the VRM's and Memory if you use a "GPU Only" water block on it.