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EVGA 1080ti Hybrid Kit

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So I have the FE (yes I know!), and the temps do seem a little toasty.

I game at 3440 1440, and I hit the low 80s.

Not enough to throttle yet, but I would like to purchase one of these kits so I can push the card a little bit more and not be concerned that I can cook an egg on it.

OCUK seem to have run out of them and has no intention of restocking ( I contacted support yesterday), and everywhere else I see them has them for over £200!

Any thoughts of where I can get it without paying through the nose?
 
Drangueos said:
you are gonna have too look for it, as we are not allowed to link competitors
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/sigh

Yes I did think that maybe a problem, or maybe not because OCUK don't stock it or intend to stock it anymore.

Anyway thanks for responding buddy.
 
Fyi if you're considering the g12. It doesn't cool the vrm and ram very well without buying additional heatsinks for those parts
 
tamzzy said:
Fyi if you're considering the g12. It doesn't cool the vrm and ram very well without buying additional heatsinks for those parts
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That's flat out wrong. The vrm fan cools the vrms better than the thermal pads and heat sink does if you watch Gamers Nexus and Jayz2cents reviewing and testing the product. Open air flow seems to do a decent enough job on the vram also.
 
I use a NZXT G10 (older model) and corsiar h55 on my 1080Ti. It takes a bit of work and effort but if you're prepared to do it the results are superb, and a lot cheaper.

I have all fans plugged into my motherboard so I can control them with custom curves, so I can get really quiet performance too which is a must for me.

A word of caution about putting heatsinks on the RAM or VRM chips too. I did this on one of my last cards (980Ti) and when I came to remove them it borked the card (they were fitted with akasa tape stuff, so should have been ok, but getting them off was hard and I must have damaged something).

I therefore didn't use any heatsinks on my 1080Ti now and - touch wood - all is great.
 
It seems the 1080ti can cope without the heatsinks on the vrms unlike earlier cards, eg 980's with the NZXT bracket. One thing I do know is that the fan with the G10 wasnt brilliant and I replaced it with a better Noctua fan which did make a difference. Not sure whether the G12 fan is any good. Personally I would always put a heatsink on the VRM's, done it a fair few times with different cooling arrangements.
 
Installed and the performance is like night and day from the stock cooler.

Load now hits no more than mid 50s......brilliant
 
prjwebb said:
That's flat out wrong. The vrm fan cools the vrms better than the thermal pads and heat sink does if you watch Gamers Nexus and Jayz2cents reviewing and testing the product. Open air flow seems to do a decent enough job on the vram also.
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This is true if you have a case with good air flow. I had the G12 on my 980ti before moving to a 1080ti, it's now on my partner's GTX980. During gaming the whole system would shut down after about 20mins, which I could only assume was the GPU as that was the only change. Temps on the core were fine, but after rolling back the power limit and overclocks it was fully stable. The case is a Bitfenix Pandora and the airflow is absolutely shocking, so clearly the VRM's were just getting recycled hot air blown over them causing them to overheat. A couple of heatsinks later and it does fine with the previous overclock applied.

Not saying the fan isn't good enough, but it's not fool proof.
 
varkanoid said:
Worth doing init !
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Yes 100%, installation was pretty easy. Despite some online reviewers saying the manual wasnt clear, it was ok for me.

I took it nice and slow and to be honest the only hassle I had was disconnecting the LED and FAN cables on removing the stock cooler and ensuring that the new cables did not impact the new fan when I installed the new shroud.

Rest was pretty easy.
 
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