Are there any AIO kits for the 3090FE?

RipGroove · 9 Jul 2021 at 07:17

I assume no one is making dedicated AIO kits for the 3090FE? I originally wanted an EVGA 3090 so I could stick their AIO Hybrid kit on it but snapped up a 3090FE when I had the chance.

I think there are a few universal AIO kits for cards based on the Reference design but not the FE design but they look ugly IMO, it would be nice if someone made some AIO kits for the FE cards that followed the same aesthetic with a nice made-to-fit shroud or something, wouldn't be too hard to do I wouldn't have thought and surely they'd sell well what with FE cards always being loud and hot. Be nice if you could get ahold of the factory shrouds so you could bodge your own kit together using a universal AIO kit and modding a shroud to suit or something.

I'm still tempted to sell my FE and buy an EVGA 3090 when the prices come down a bit so I can continue with my original plan.

***F1ZZY*** · 9 Jul 2021 at 07:30

Maybe get a pre-installed one and sell the FE?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...WwGRzNyhIaA6Pn53MSrmw7Sh1L8zM9YkaAhyEEALw_wcB

RipGroove · 9 Jul 2021 at 07:33

That's far too pricey an option IMO, you can get EVGA AIO kits for about £150 but the problem is EVGA GPUs are selling for £1800 second hand. Surely it's a gap in the market, if someone made £150 AIO kits for FE cards that people paid MSRP for then it's a decent cheap solution. I paid £1400 for my FE at MSRP so a £150 AIO add on would be perfect as total spend would be £1550, not £2400

Maybe Nvidia don't allow people to make cooler replacement products for the FE cards for some reason?

koeiwong · 9 Jul 2021 at 08:17

RipGroove said:
That's far too pricey an option IMO, you can get EVGA AIO kits for about £150 but the problem is EVGA GPUs are selling for £1800 second hand. Surely it's a gap in the market, if someone made £150 AIO kits for FE cards that people paid MSRP for then it's a decent cheap solution. I paid £1400 for my FE at MSRP so a £150 AIO add on would be perfect as total spend would be £1550, not £2400

Maybe Nvidia don't allow people to make cooler replacement products for the FE cards for some reason?

You can find it on a selling platform that ship from China. Bykski is the brand name but it's look average.

RipGroove · 9 Jul 2021 at 08:24

koeiwong said:
You can find it on a selling platform that ship from China. Bykski is the brand name but it's look average.

I did see some of those actually but I don't like the idea of relying on that sort of cheap chinese odd brand kit to keep my card alive, I'd rather go with a known brand etc.

***F1ZZY*** · 9 Jul 2021 at 08:24

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/alph...oA7cH-xrYhuSviCgH4H6XWbSQatu7KCsvUqtkc3dpTTHw

I know this one doesn't support Fe cards but alphacool do make a block for FE. Maybe you could swap the GPU block or can find a way to configure what you need directly with Alphacool?

Or just go custom loop?

RipGroove · 9 Jul 2021 at 08:27

***F1ZZY*** said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/alph...oA7cH-xrYhuSviCgH4H6XWbSQatu7KCsvUqtkc3dpTTHw

I know this one doesn't support Fe cards but alphacool do make a block for FE. Maybe you could swap the GPU block or can find a way to configure what you need directly with Alphacool?

Or just go custom loop?

I suppose it wouldn't be too much of a problem to make an AIO from bodging various kits together using an FE waterblock. My CPU already has an AIO on it so don't really want to involve that as well if I can help it and my case doesn't have room for a reservoir and all that gubbins but a simple loop for the GPU could be doable maybe.

xPETEZx · 9 Jul 2021 at 09:20

Is it mainly for noise or temps your wanting an AIO?

If your card does not coil whine, you can get a very quiet experience just by replacing the thermal pads on the back of the card and running an undervolt.
My cards fans never go above 1200rpm, and usually sit at around 1050rpm gaming. This is barely louder than the case fans. Issue I have is the coil whine ... much louder than the fans.

And the 90FE cooler does a fantastic job keeping things cool. Core never really goes above 65. Unless you really want to OC, not sure what benefit you get from much lower temps.

I considered going custom loop for my card, as stock the fans where so loud. But I gave the re-pad a go and that sorted the fan noise for me.

***F1ZZY*** · 9 Jul 2021 at 09:21

RipGroove said:
I suppose it wouldn't be too much of a problem to make an AIO from bodging various kits together using an FE waterblock. My CPU already has an AIO on it so don't really want to involve that as well if I can help it and my case doesn't have room for a reservoir and all that gubbins but a simple loop for the GPU could be doable maybe.

you might want to check with alphacool for suitability if you take this approach as the barb connections on the FE blocks are on the end and not the side like other blocks.

koeiwong · 9 Jul 2021 at 09:22

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xPETEZx said:
Is it mainly for noise or temps your wanting an AIO?

If your card does not coil whine, you can get a very quiet experience just by replacing the thermal pads on the back of the card and running an undervolt.
My cards fans never go above 1200rpm, and usually sit at around 1050rpm gaming. This is barely louder than the case fans. Issue I have is the coil whine ... much louder than the fans.

And the 90FE cooler does a fantastic job keeping things cool. Core never really goes above 65. Unless you really want to OC, not sure what benefit you get from much lower temps.

I considered going custom loop for my card, as stock the fans where so loud. But I gave the re-pad a go and that sorted the fan noise for me.

Did you re-pad the back only? How about the gpu core side?

RipGroove · 9 Jul 2021 at 09:26

xPETEZx said:
Is it mainly for noise or temps your wanting an AIO?

If your card does not coil whine, you can get a very quiet experience just by replacing the thermal pads on the back of the card and running an undervolt.
My cards fans never go above 1200rpm, and usually sit at around 1050rpm gaming. This is barely louder than the case fans. Issue I have is the coil whine ... much louder than the fans.

And the 90FE cooler does a fantastic job keeping things cool. Core never really goes above 65. Unless you really want to OC, not sure what benefit you get from much lower temps.

I considered going custom loop for my card, as stock the fans where so loud. But I gave the re-pad a go and that sorted the fan noise for me.

IIRC my 3090 runs at 73°C ish with a custom fan curve to keep the noise at an acceptable level, some of it is fan noise and some of it is whine I think it it runs at about 1700-19xx MHz during gaming. I'm used to having a silent PC as my last setup was AIO on both CPU and GPU and I run 140mm fans so the current noise from the 3090FE is bothering me.

varkanoid · 9 Jul 2021 at 09:55

RipGroove said:
That's far too pricey an option IMO, you can get EVGA AIO kits for about £150 but the problem is EVGA GPUs are selling for £1800 second hand. Surely it's a gap in the market, if someone made £150 AIO kits for FE cards that people paid MSRP for then it's a decent cheap solution. I paid £1400 for my FE at MSRP so a £150 AIO add on would be perfect as total spend would be £1550, not £2400

Maybe Nvidia don't allow people to make cooler replacement products for the FE cards for some reason?

Companies dabble every so often but reason AIO kits dont sell it because people dont buy them.

Problem with cards over £1000 I dont like to risk doing a DIY job or even a ready made kit since the EVGA 2080ti I had after I fitted their AIO cooler the chip blew with it cracked right across the top right hand corner and a chunk came off. Amazingly EVGA accepted the RMA. Personally I dont think it was the coolers fault because after fitting I ran Timespy for 10 minutes and the GPU temp was reporting around 50c in Afterburner and GPUz then after another 5 minutes BANG it just went it was 53c too when it did.

RipGroove · 9 Jul 2021 at 10:00

varkanoid said:
Companies dabble every so often but reason AIO kits dont sell it because people dont buy them.

Problem with cards over £1000 I dont like to risk doing a DIY job or even a ready made kit since the EVGA 2080ti I had after I fitted their AIO cooler the chip blew with it cracked right across the top right hand corner and a chunk came off. Amazingly EVGA accepted the RMA. Personally I dont think it was the coolers fault because after fitting I ran Timespy for 10 minutes and the GPU temp was reporting around 50c in Afterburner and GPUz then after another 5 minutes BANG it just went it was 53c too when it did.

Christ, maybe I'll stick with the original plan then of swapping my FE for an EVGA FTW3 Hybrid if I can find one.

varkanoid · 9 Jul 2021 at 11:04

RipGroove said:
Christ, maybe I'll stick with the original plan then of swapping my FE for an EVGA FTW3 Hybrid if I can find one.

Its that grey area with the FE you are not meant to remove the cooler as it invalidates warranty its debatable.

RipGroove · 9 Jul 2021 at 11:05

varkanoid said:
Its that grey area with the FE you are not meant to remove the cooler as it invalidates warranty its debatable.

I see, you're probably right then.

varkanoid · 9 Jul 2021 at 11:33

RipGroove said:
I see, you're probably right then.

in the past the FE or reference blower type cooler gpu's I wouldnt hesitate to do a DIY job on and the FE used to be the one that people would favour to water cool but thats back when they are £600 GPU's and plenty in stock. I've installed the Nzxt G12 a few times for example.

xPETEZx · 9 Jul 2021 at 12:03

koeiwong said:
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Did you re-pad the back only? How about the gpu core side?

Yep just did the back. My only goal was to get the fan noise down. For that... the back was enough.
Max VRAM temp I have seen since is 96, well below the 104 needed to activate "fan jet-mode".
Usually it sits at 92, still hot, but good enough for me.

RipGroove said:
IIRC my 3090 runs at 73°C ish with a custom fan curve to keep the noise at an acceptable level, some of it is fan noise and some of it is whine I think it it runs at about 1700-19xx MHz during gaming. I'm used to having a silent PC as my last setup was AIO on both CPU and GPU and I run 140mm fans so the current noise from the 3090FE is bothering me.

I too am used to a completely silent PC.
Still bugs me that I cant get this one as quiet as my last. I am happy with idle noise now, as its quieter than the old one. But load noise is much more annoying because of the card coil whine.
So have totally given up trying to reduce the noise further from the fans, as if anything the fan noise is better than the whine...

If I could, id swap my FE card for an AIB that has no whine. But given the market... just glad I have a card.

RipGroove · 9 Jul 2021 at 12:27

xPETEZx said:
Yep just did the back. My only goal was to get the fan noise down. For that... the back was enough.
Max VRAM temp I have seen since is 96, well below the 104 needed to activate "fan jet-mode".
Usually it sits at 92, still hot, but good enough for me.

I too am used to a completely silent PC.
Still bugs me that I cant get this one as quiet as my last. I am happy with idle noise now, as its quieter than the old one. But load noise is much more annoying because of the card coil whine.
So have totally given up trying to reduce the noise further from the fans, as if anything the fan noise is better than the whine...

If I could, id swap my FE card for an AIB that has no whine. But given the market... just glad I have a card.

My idle is silent now because of my GPU fan curve and CPU AIO curves etc but the GPU is still a bit noisy under load, some of it is definitely the fans but I'm not 100% sure if it's that that's whining or my PSU as it sounds exactly like my previous PSU that definitely whined, maybe my current 850w PSU is at its limit now so making a but of noise, I need to find out for sure where the noise is coming from.

RipGroove · 9 Jul 2021 at 12:38

varkanoid said:
in the past the FE or reference blower type cooler gpu's I wouldnt hesitate to do a DIY job on and the FE used to be the one that people would favour to water cool but thats back when they are £600 GPU's and plenty in stock. I've installed the Nzxt G12 a few times for example.

Yes true, I would actually be a bit hesitant pulling mine apart I suppose.

varkanoid · 9 Jul 2021 at 13:10

RipGroove said:
My idle is silent now because of my GPU fan curve and CPU AIO curves etc but the GPU is still a bit noisy under load, some of it is definitely the fans but I'm not 100% sure if it's that that's whining or my PSU as it sounds exactly like my previous PSU that definitely whined, maybe my current 850w PSU is at its limit now so making a but of noise, I need to find out for sure where the noise is coming from.

okay will jump in before anyone else - use an empty toilet roll as an ear trumpet.