Hi, about to take the plunge and go custom watercooling, i've managed to get a corsair Hydro X XH305i for a cracking price and wondering about the gpu block, i was originally going to get a corsair one to match but wondered if anyone would chose something else? Also considering getting a 2nd rad, i currently have a corsair 4000d case but was thinking of getting the 5000 so give a bit more space and allowing a 2nd 360 rad as I think although possible it might be tight with a 360 and 240 in the 4000 case
3080ti FE block
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3080/3080ti block from corsair isn't great at vram temps. Ek fe offers best performance. There's a comparison on the tube that compares those 2 and the alphacool version. 240 + 360 should be ok imo. Though I went for 2 x 360 to overkill.
How did you get on with this? I've just got the Corsair block. Understand it isn't the best, but in the sale it made sense to me.
I've got the same block, I also understood its probably not the best but because i'm quite commited to icue i decided to do the same, i also got it on offer which tempted me even more, i've still not even got anything setup despite having it for over 2 months now, decided the corsair 4000 case was going to be too small and fiddly to work in so wanted a 5000x but the prices shot up, recently saw them as low as £100 but now around £150, amazon had them for £120 a few weeks ago so placed an order but still out of stock, im in no rush so will just wait and see, got the XH305i for litterally half the rrp and it was brand new
Hahaha..
Im waiting for a deal on the Corsair xh305i over the next week or so. One place has it for 445£.
Was happy to get the block for 105. Might not be around for long as there aren't many 3080FEs around.
I've got a big snow white core x9. So plenty of space. Love the horizontal board. Couldn't go back now.
I got the kit for £300 so it’s worth sitting on
I'm trying to understand what pads I should be putting on the rear plate at the block doesn't come with any. I took the back off the 3080fe and there are plenty of crap looking pads. Guess I leave them on.
I was under the impression the Corsair stuff came with pre applied pads?
Good video from corsair on fitment
sorry, yeah the block does. but the backplate doesnt.
nvidia started adding pads to the rear to control the thermals. I guess if the water block is effective then it might not be needed. But I might by some 1mm and 0.5 thermal grizzly for when i come to do it.
The EK blocks have thermal pads on the back plate, probably explains the performance difference between them and some of the other blocks.
IIRC the Alphacool block doesn`t have as many thermal pads on the die side as the EK water block either.
IIRC the Alphacool block doesn`t have as many thermal pads on the die side as the EK water block either.
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The alphacool block for the reference 3080 is garbage. I love their rads but wouldn't buy a block again.
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Strange, I've had great results from the FE block.
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I have an Innochill Frostbite 3080 with a factory-fitted Alphacool Eisblock. If I put the VRAM under heavy load e.g. mining, the VRAM is hitting 100C in a loop with a 360mm Monsta rad where the cpu is at 42c and the gpu at 35c. I have removed the block and replaced the front pads which dropped the temps from 110c.
Simply put, the block design does not direct sufficient fluid over where the RAM sits.
https://www.kitguru.net/components/...-vs-corsair-vs-ekwb-rtx-3080-gpu-water-block/
Probs not as much help but the 3090 i have with a Heatkiller V block works really well. It came with white pads for front and back of the pcb which is sandwiched between the block and blackplate which makes contact around the edges (sort of). My Vram temps mining never reached above 78c from what i remember and even cooler when i had a fan blowing over the back of it.
Wish i could tell what pads they used but its damn good, i was quite surprised with the results tbh as i was seeing a lot of high temps from others even with watercooling.
Wish i could tell what pads they used but its damn good, i was quite surprised with the results tbh as i was seeing a lot of high temps from others even with watercooling.
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I'm seeing 84°C with an active backplate but the EK thermal pads aren't great.
Then again my fans are set to 40% and I am running +1800 on the memory
Ah i never ran it that high, the gains were not worth the extra clock on the memory. Think the highest i ran mine was +1300 which saw the best results around 122mhs i think off top of my head?
Finally the case has been delivered, but unfortunately for me its been delivered to the office and I am in isolation due to a pesky thing called covid till sunday, typical would have been the ideal time to have a bash
Finally the case has been delivered, but unfortunately for me its been delivered to the office and I am in isolation due to a pesky thing called covid till sunday, typical would have been the ideal time to have a bash
I've started on mine. Details in other thread. Had to order some expensive RGB extensions from eBay. My case is too big!
Just doing the gpu. Should have it leak testing tomorrow for a few hours just got to do the other 2 pipes.
Ordered a y splitter and ball valve along with a couple of 90 connectors to help with the setup.
Bent my first pipe ok. Wanted to bent it a bit more and over did the heat and it bubbled. Other than that it's pretty straight forward bending the tubes.
Gonna put the block on the GPU first thing.
I didn't realise the FE is actually RGB. All lit up like a rainbow once I installed icue.
Nice which thread is that?