Zotac RTX 3090, Alphacool and Asus ROG Strix Z490G - Heads up

Petrolhead · 25 Oct 2020 at 12:55

Just a bit of a heads up.

i am going through the process of water cooling my Zotac RTX trinity at the moment.

Fitting the Alphacool block to the GPU was a breeze.

however fitting the gpu to the mobo highlighted some problems. Its all to do with the backplate fouling on two parts of the mobo. Fortunately for me i have a milling machine and was able to machine the backplate so the card now fits, see photos

Petrolhead · 25 Oct 2020 at 13:03

https://imgur.com/4Ieq7k1

Brizzles · 25 Oct 2020 at 14:02

Petrolhead said:
https://imgur.com/4Ieq7k1

That is crazy close clearance ( or lack of ) from Asus, most gfx cards come with backplates.

Petrolhead · 25 Oct 2020 at 14:08

The card, std fitted ok

Choimaloy75 · 25 Oct 2020 at 14:23

How’s the trinity performing for you then?

Petrolhead · 25 Oct 2020 at 14:40

Very pleases, i upgraded from a 1080ti. Not into overclocking GPUs, never had much luck. I play sim racing games and there is a noticable improvement allowing me to run max settings, ie RF2 always get 144fps at max settings. Fans are a bit noisy tho hence why I am water cooling, this will be my first loop

Choimaloy75 · 25 Oct 2020 at 15:57

Petrolhead said:
Very pleases, i upgraded from a 1080ti. Not into overclocking GPUs, never had much luck. I play sim racing games and there is a noticable improvement allowing me to run max settings, ie RF2 always get 144fps at max settings. Fans are a bit noisy tho hence why I am water cooling, this will be my first loop

Ah pleased your happy with I have on to but its just a stop gap till my asus strix oc comes, but I'm enjoying it and it a big improvement over my 2080ti.
Only thing that lets it down is the power limit on as you could get way more out of it.

Petrolhead · 25 Oct 2020 at 16:08

Choimaloy75 said:
Ah pleased your happy with I have on to but its just a stop gap till my asus strix oc comes, but I'm enjoying it and it a big improvement over my 2080ti.
Only thing that lets it down is the power limit on as you could get way more out of it.

Maybe when things settle down the may release an updated bios