Quote Originally Posted by gmat View Post
The 480 air cooler is made so the card almost reaches thermal limits at stock clocks.. i doubt there's any headroom on air


That's the problem, so far with the cards i've had, on straight watercooling the temperature didnt change the OC limit (again as long as the card doesnt reach thermal problems). And from what i have seen that limit only really moves at sub zero temps...
well or course sub-zero is another world, but on mine the other i was playing dirt2 with my card OCed as usual, suddenly the game crash. looked at the temps they were way high, turns out i forgot to set my rad fans at 12v, i never had a crash before of after that.

Quote Originally Posted by resident1509 View Post
let's go ahead and lock this thread down. not going anywhere anytime soon...
especially with your comments...