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djimty

djimty

djimty

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Hi guys,

I hope I can pick your brains. I'm thinking of purchasing a AIO Cooler for my Reference 980 SC which always hits 80c under load and something I wish to lower to a reasonable level.

What do you guys recommend? I was initially looking at the EVGA Hybrid but I read somewhere it does not cool the VRM? And the Corsair n980 unit does not have the best of reviews.

Forgive me for the noobish questions but any help in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
 
GHazy said:
Not sure is this will work on my 980ti g6 gaming. Anyone know?
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The NZXT G10 works with the 980Ti MSI 6G Gaming as if it was made for it. The 6G already has a cooling plate covering all the vrms which you just keep on. The backplate also stays on so you just remove the pad on the G10 backplate or flip it over like I done. I've still got my 980Ti 6G with G10 actually.

Unfortunately with the reference model EVGA 980 SC you would need to put heatsinks on the vrms.
 
Running a G10 with an H100 on a 970 and it's brilliant. I bought the G10 new but the H100 on eBay for £50 so overall a really cheap solution and it's halved the temps and is virtually silent. Recommended.
 
RanxZy, do you think it's worth doing? My GPU is always running around 80c when gaming and this would hopefully reduce by quiet a lot and allow for better overclock.

Or simply wait for something worthwhile to upgrade too?
 
The Corsair and EVGA Hybrid cool the VRM's as they use the existing GPU heatsink base.
The NZXT G10 only cools it via a fan although you need to replace the fan as its rubbish and also add VRM's heatsinks to be sure.
I've used all 3 and I prefer the EVGA or Corsair. If you can do it and cheaply you will probably knock off 20-25c under load.
Also with the G10 if you have a RAM chip situated just above the PCI connector the pump gets in the way of any RAM heatsink you put on.
To solve this I filed away half of the heatsink so it didnt catch on the Pump. Worked a treat afterwards though.
Oh and you dont get RAM heatsinks with the G10 whereas the others do cool it via the base heatsink.
 
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Sweet I'm looking to do this with my Msi Gaming 980 ti at the end of the month, I've just put a custom bios on it and at 1480mhz it was reaching 82-83oc
 
varkanoid said:
The Corsair and EVGA Hybrid cool the VRM's as they use the existing GPU heatsink base.
The NZXT G10 only cools it via a fan although you need to replace the fan as its rubbish and also add VRM's heatsinks to be sure.
I've used all 3 and I prefer the EVGA or Corsair. If you can do it and cheaply you will probably knock off 20-25c under load.
Also with the G10 if you have a RAM chip situated just above the PCI connector the pump gets in the way of any RAM heatsink you put on.
To solve this I filed away half of the heatsink so it didnt catch on the Pump. Worked a treat afterwards though.
Oh and you dont get RAM heatsinks with the G10 whereas the others do cool it via the base heatsink.
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Thanks, I think I'll go with the EVGA Hybrid. It's a shame that OCUK don't stock them.

Varaknoid, did you change the Stock Rad Fan? Thinking of sticking a Noctua on it.
 
hijacking this thread slightly.. but when applying thermal paste to GPU what method do people use? is it the "pea blob" and let the heatsink spread it or the "credit card" spread it evenly method?

Thinking of re-applying the paste on my RX480 as the temps i'm getting seem higher than most others.
 
djimty said:
Thanks, I think I'll go with the EVGA Hybrid. It's a shame that OCUK don't stock them.

Varaknoid, did you change the Stock Rad Fan? Thinking of sticking a Noctua on it.
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Yes I used one with good static pressure and red LED, the EVGA Hybrid is actually on my 1080 now. My front case fans are 140mm so I bought a red 140mm to 120mm cowl (from OCUK) for the 120mm rad and a Prolimatech 140mm fan which I previously used on my Megahelms CPU cooler.

Bantu said:
hijacking this thread slightly.. but when applying thermal paste to GPU what method do people use? is it the "pea blob" and let the heatsink spread it or the "credit card" spread it evenly method?

Thinking of re-applying the paste on my RX480 as the temps i'm getting seem higher than most others.
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Personal preference I spread it.
 
Bantu said:
hijacking this thread slightly.. but when applying thermal paste to GPU what method do people use? is it the "pea blob" and let the heatsink spread it or the "credit card" spread it evenly method?

Thinking of re-applying the paste on my RX480 as the temps i'm getting seem higher than most others.
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I prefer to spread when applying directly to a die.
 
that makes sense. I can see the heatsink spread method being effective only when the entire chip is lidded.
 
Bantu said:
hijacking this thread slightly.. but when applying thermal paste to GPU what method do people use? is it the "pea blob" and let the heatsink spread it or the "credit card" spread it evenly method?

Thinking of re-applying the paste on my RX480 as the temps i'm getting seem higher than most others.
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X on the die, or spread using a rubber glove (or similar). Remember, the entire surface of gpu die HAS to have TIM applied as there is no IHS, as on a cpu.
 
bigmac121 said:
is that normal temps for a Ti?
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It's acceptable depending on what sort of fan profile/ curve he has. Could be set up to be silent so slower fans. Mines set up where it stays around 64 degrees usually on a full load and not seen it top out over 68. But this is on the super beefier 3 slot cooler AMP extreme with slightly higher than stock fan profile. So i would say yea that does seem about right if it tops out at that.
 
Nah it's not an aggressive fan profile I have MSI afterburner set at 30% at 40oc which increases 10% for every 10oc, it's at 80% at 80oc then 100 at 85%. I could bring the 100% in sooner but to be honest it's still quite quiet at the moment.

I would just like to push it a little further whilst maintaining acceptable noise levels and temps so I'm defiantly thinking of trying a G10 with a Kraken X41 as a low cost wc setup.
 
Doobedoo said:
Nah it's not an aggressive fan profile I have MSI afterburner set at 30% at 40oc which increases 10% for every 10oc, it's at 80% at 80oc then 100 at 85%. I could bring the 100% in sooner but to be honest it's still quite quiet at the moment.

I would just like to push it a little further whilst maintaining acceptable noise levels and temps so I'm defiantly thinking of trying a G10 with a Kraken X41 as a low cost wc setup.
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You'll love it, best thing I did to my MSI 6G 980ti

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28353082&postcount=5323

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28368700&postcount=5476

https://youtu.be/29dgzhBmyM4
 
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