Just had confirmation back from Gigabyte that any disassembly of the product voids the warranty and you would need to take it up with the retailer you purchased the product from.
Has anyone returned a formerly water-blocked card that has had the stock cooler remounted (properly remounted, and not some catastrophic tim smeared mess) to gigabyte and had their RMA refused? it's difficult to find positives as people only really complain about issues they have or are having, and a lot look self created.
Also if anyone knows,
I eventually got a 3080 vision (hooray) and its super fast compared to the 1660ti, but its like sitting next to the hoover when gaming. I didn't intend to get the vision, but I have been without card since early September when I sold mine thinking I would snap up my upgrade. So when it appeared I jumped at it for £800.
I already have a custom waterloop, So I was looking at blocks such as
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/alph...abyte-gaming-eagle-water-block-wc-0bq-ac.html
This doesn't specifically say Vision compatible, but some of the Chinese sites are selling Barrow blocks that claim to be compatible with "Gigabyte RTX 3080 GAMING OC 10G Gigabyte RTX 3080 EAGLE OC 10G Gigabyte RTX 3080 VISION OC 10G" compatible.
I guess I'm probably best contacting Alphacool direct.