DukeCLR
Those temps are really impressive, I just bought an AIO for my CPU and although it helped amazingly and allows me to game at 5.0 it's not as dramatic as the temp difference you seem to have gotten,  Nice job!  

zombiewarpig

xf1280
How is the noise? Some other thread says the pump is loud?

Them maybe they have the rad installed lower than the pump or the pump is defective. My pump is silent just like the last two hybrids i owned.

TRClark911

DukeCLR
Those temps are really impressive, I just bought an AIO for my CPU and although it helped amazingly and allows me to game at 5.0 it's not as dramatic as the temp difference you seem to have gotten,  Nice job!  

 
 
Yeah I'm amazed at the decrease.  I think I can OC the card a bit further now and improve performance.
 
Pretty awesome.  I'm gonna delid the CPU today as well and try to improve on the 4.8 ghz 1 button OC I have now.
 
This hybrid kit and the delid are the last 2 things on the list then I think I'll officially be "done" tinkering with this PC... 2 months after I built it.  LOL
 
 

xf1280
How is the noise? Some other thread says the pump is loud?

It's super quiet.
 

bcavnaugh
FurMark is not recommended by NVIDIA and not by EVGA to use on Graphics Cards. Only a Remember to Forum Members.

I didn't know that.  It's not something on my every day to do list but I used it last night after the install to test.  If there's something you guys recommend please let me know.
 

cyberdimensions
Great to see you got the thing installed Hemi!  Got any hints, tricks, things to watch out for during the installation process?  Anything that stood out to you as overly complicated, difficult or not mentioned in the directions?
 
Thanks!

Is Hemi in this thread??
 
As previously mentioned the instructions weren't all that great and actually skipped a few what they may have considered common sense steps... (putting the back plate on prior to mounting the pump)  It was my first time doing this and I figured that out as soon as I tried to mount the cooler on the GPU... LOL
 
There wasn't anything overly difficult, it was just time consuming.  I have a 53 pc tool set as well as a precision tool set which just happened to include the 4mm socket you need for all those screws on the backplate.
 
On ease of installation it's an easy 8.5/10...  If I were to do it again it'd be a lot faster.  This time took me a few hours... but I wasn't rushing either.
 
 

DukeCLR

shadowboricua
 
What  Vcore do you get on your 7700K @ 5 GHz?

I must admit I'm a bit rough on the terms, I set 1.29 with a .035 offset, I guess I would have to say that it's 1.32 but it does peak above per HWinfo after a long BF1 session.
Here are my settings.

cyberdimensions
Sorry TRClark, I saw the car and thought Hemi...didn't he have the same avatar for a while?  I also knew that he had received his.  It's Saturday, brain's not working yet!  :-)
 
You put the backplate on before mounting the pump? Hmm.

xf1280
How is the noise? Some other thread says the pump is loud?

GTXJackBauer
 
As for Furmark benching, it's one of the extreme GPU benchmarks out there.  Really don't need to use it since it goes beyond real time environments.  One of the few benchmarks and apps I like to use are 3DMark, Heaven and Folding@home is another great one for OCing stability testing since it pushes your GPUs really good other than the extreme Furmark.  While this is all going on, GPUz is a great monitoring tool along with PrecisionX but I haven't used PrecisionX since it's been harassing me for some GPU info.

demon09


+160 is pretty nice and with the water cooler it is probably staying at full boost where the fe cooler would be drooping down. I can only manage 130+ on the core 140 causes crashes , was 180 on memory where you stopped seeing performance gains?

TRClark911
 
Yeah... cool on the beach.  About to delid the CPU.