liquid cooling help fps?

[pnico]

hi guys,

im looking to get liquid cooling for my 5970's. they do get pretty hot. Even though my case was originally designed to keep 2 4870x2's cool..
would liquid cooling help the performance? I was told the cooler I keep the card, the better it wil perform as excessive heat kills any electronic component.

some tell me yes as it would help too much heat build up more effectively than a fan or no?

also, is it a fact, now that the flickering that has occured with many 5x series across the board is in FACT a driver issue? the flickering when any attempt to overclock, even by 1 mhz ..

thanks!
Phil

[psionic98]

flickering is usually due to bad overclock.. not sure its a guarantee its driver related..

water cooling the cards will help with the heat, which helps sustain the lifetime, but if you cant really OC it well it would be pointless..the cards fans are designed to keep teh card cool running up to and sustaining 100% speed..

try manually setting the fan speeds to 60% if youc an tolerate it and you should be ok with the heat

[117425]

heat damages frame rate because it causes transistors to fail, given the vast number of transistors in modern card when they get realy hot you start to realy notice it as more and more transistors fail. in this respect yes better cooling would help. flickering is not a drop in frame rate as such its most probably ur display drivers stoping responding for a second or to..or something to that effect generally caused be exessive ocing.