If they keep doing that, I hope AMD pulls another Ryzen after the Xbox and PS5 sells a ton of units. Nvidia needs to be lowered. They are the most anti-consumer company on the planet.
Been waiting on that finely worded response absolving yourself of any wrong doing for a while nowā¦
Hmm no thank you for assuming I am assuming you are an idiot.
Which Iām not assuming anything, just pointing out that is how the nvidia card has been working for a good while now. Even my old 780ti
For example this is my card a 1080ti
Although it list the base and boost clock as such, in reality if temp are kept in good range the cards over boost themselves.
Mine overboosts to 2000mhz at automatic fan setting.
Higher with fan cranked to 100% to 2024.
Mine is not an watercooled model.
You do realise the 1080ti has a higher base clock than a 2080 right?
Lol brother,
Iām cooking inside my restaurant, kinda hard to cook with one hand and swipe phone on the other lol 
Says right there, base clock 1607 in normal gaming mode, for my 1080ti
Quoting you assuming others cannot understand the difference between boost clocks and base clock speed.
You quote 5 words out of the whole paragraph while the context of my response was to say temprature is the main factor determine how high nvidia gpu is willing to boost itself and stay there and remain stable.
No doubt watercooling will bring the temp lower than a fan model, but perhaps bring the boost step up 2 or 3 steppings? Result in maybe 100mhz sustained advantage? And that translate into 1 or 2% difference?
I dont get aggressiveness towards my response tho, did I say something to upset u?
Theres the
For no apparent reason you decided to assert yourself on another person, not attempting to engage in debate, but simply deem their opoinion not worthy of consideration. An assumption was made that the original post misunderstood basic concepts. Now you seem to feel victimised when faulted. I donāt know why I need to explain the basic social behaviours of āa di*k moveā.
Do you treat all strangers with such conceit?
So all this because I said āits base clock thoā? Really?
After I responded I was not assuming anything in condescending way? And explained my reasoning?
Only speaking from my experience with multiple generations of nvidia GPU usage, but ok if you feel that way we dont need to continue this further, for the record I did not say anything in a demeaning way.
What a weird discussion even through the truth was already pointed - overclocking graphic cards wont give you much increase in performance, but you gain instead power consumtion (greatly), more work for your cooling system and your GPU degrades faster which is knows to everyone who is not an idiot. You can turn your card into 500w freaking monster or let it work with normal consumtion around 250w with the difference in couple fps. A performance boost of 1-5% is just not worth the efforts, you take risks and and consume more electricity for nothing.
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Iāve only responded because it read to me as you contributed the high clock mhz crediting to the watercooling and thatās in contrast of what I experienced. And thatās why I responded asking base clock to see if this is what you meant, because as far as I understood with nvidia GPU, thatās how they behave, with watercooling solution maintaining a slightly higher sustained clock for longer while fan model taper off , but the main advantage is fan model are loud to keep temp down.
I hope I make myself clear, and that was all what I meant.
I can agree on this with overclocking, for me going from 2000mhz to 2070mhz did not gain me much performance, in fact it was so small I couldnāt be sure there was any actual benefit, but it did increase the temperature but a big amount playing with voltage to get higher clock.
In the end, I left it as stock with only a more aggressive fan curve. As I did with my 780ti, 1080 and 1080ti.
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Under water and undervoltetā¦ in sone games 20% 
But not in all
I donāt even bother to OC my gpu/cpu nowadays. The real gain is so minimal. I rather enjoy a silent PC.
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20% is alot, which game did make such a large gain for you?
My days of benchmarking are over, with maybe 1% ~ 3% improvement over stock settings, and with card taken to the edge of stability.
In the end I have always gone back to close to stock settings because of the increase in heat, noise very noticeable but performance was not. Like 146fps vs 150fps. And mostly the same experience since the 780ti.
Iām very surprised to see you have see that big of a boost tho.
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Yes, it scores points in DCS.2.56 (CPU 5.0GHz or higher required)
Above all an increase in the Vram clock (+500). But you should be sensible with the increases. I use water for the gpu.
I climbed from 44-45 up to 56-58 FPS in identical situations. (before catalyst)
But the old DCS 2.55 runs without OC much faster 
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As @oysta1109 points out, watercooling the GPU is especially from an monetary pricepoint complete overkill. Better to invest the extra cooling money in the next faster card model.
@Soarin nobody thought that you would not know the difference of base to boost clocks. If someone tinkers around with water he usually knows about it. The base clock of lower tier models is of course adjusted to fit the lineup of the vendor. So with the 2080 there is no suprise you benefit more from using water than someone with an 2080ti. Is it worth it? Imho itās personal preference towards money vs primarily noise and a few % performance.
I do watercool my cpu and i do not feel the need to do the same on my zotac 2080ti. The fan is relatively quiet, even at 2GHz+ speeds, and i am in vr anyway.
I think the OP has already quite good suggestions and now it is up to him to decide.
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Iāll do it the other way around. however, my 2080ti was only a supposedly defective board. It seemed worth trying.
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This.
Itās quite time consuming to find the sweet spot oc the vram, as it self correct errors and artifacts dont show up unlike gpu of yesterdays, lots fiddling to find optimum setting where increased mhz is real gain in performance not decrease due to error and self correction. It did give me around 2% performance when maxed , so combine with GPU mhz oc it probably gave me 5% over I do absolutely but runs the card.
I did spent many sleepless nights chasing that elusive 3% extra performance out of my GPUās 
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You lucky one 
seems you saved some cash there 
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