>100% TDP, water

[priviet]

Hi folks,

I often read that you should drive your GPUs at 80% TDP for durability reasons.

Because I am in a "no noise allowed" space, I did watercooling long ago, costed me $80 for each GPU extra + one time investment of ~350$.

GPUs are still at 80% TDP but not exceeding 40° Celsius, especially the 1080ti's and the 1070 are cold as ice .

Would you crank up the TDP or are there still durability concerns?

Regards

[QuintLeo]

Durability is more about the temperature the chips run at than the watts going through them - with good water cooling, *IF* the RAM and the power regulators are included on the waterblock, pushing the cards to 110-120% should not drop durability noticeably IF AT ALL then running them at 80% on stock cooling.

[philipma1957]

Yes the durability now shifts off your cards  and to:

1) risers
2) or mobo slots
3) psu
4) psu cables


So if you have an aorus 1080 ti and crank that mofo to 300 watts it will be hard on all of the above.

So watch the cables for heat .   Make sure the psu has over head