3 titan black water cooling necessary?

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dive
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Hey guys I bought three titan blacks for Octane. It's for work. Obviously I won't be rendering 24/7, it's more like finish a model, render/tweek it in octane, but I was wondering, if I get a large case with a few extra fans, do I need water cooling?

The cards will prob get to 80C, that's OK or NO?

Thanks in advance,

Dive
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Hi, Dive.

You don't need watercooling for Titan Blacks (especially if the have reference coolers). Nvidia done pretty good job designing them. You'll likelly get around 80 degrees, but if that bothers You You can always put the temperature target down in a GPU boost 2 program (but that will harm the performance a bit). As You said, simply get good case, to provide enough airflow. & You're good to go. The benefit of watercooling is to get better temps & way more silent operation, but that come with cost..it's not nesecity, so don't wory =) Your rig should be good on air =)
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Hey Glimpse,

Thanks for the reply :). Yeah I'm just wondering excessive use at 80C is OK right? I want the cards to last a few years.
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80C is completelly fine for modern GPU's silicon inside. Gamer cards are targeted to that temperature, but if You're looking for 24/7 laods it's good to think about better cooling.

If You wish it to run cooler, more silent & maybe even faster (at the same time) You can invest in a water cooling (3-4 with rads, fans, pumps, reserv probably going to cost 1-1.5k depending on what You are going to choose), but as I said before, it's not nesecary (unless You really want to reach objectives mentioned before).
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On water your titans will run at max 45C and 20% faster (on safe voltage) and very silent. Go for it and you'll never regret it.
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i would recommend EVGA Precision X software put fan set to manual and set it to max when rendering my setup is 4 gtx580 and temperature don't pass 62 and speed is not compromised.as for getting a waterbrick you can expect up to 20% speed increase but only with overclocking
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