Nvidia 30X0 series waterblocks

Toothy1911 · 6 Oct 2020 at 07:36

oldbanana said:
Who other than EK makes STRIX 3080 waterblocks ? I cant stand EK so wont be buying their crap (190€ for a piece of copper and plexi, lmao gtfo)
I heard watercool is plannin on making 1 custom card block but they are still undecided if its TUF, STRIX or FTW3
My STRIX OC will be here on friday or monday.

https://www.alphacool.com/shop/graf...i-gpx-n-rtx-3090/3080-rog-strix-mit-backplate

I ordered my reference block from OCUK. Check for stock of these, and ask customer service if they're not showing yet.

oldbanana · 6 Oct 2020 at 08:07

Dont really like how alphacool cheaps out on the blocks using minimal copper they can while still asking 140 for the block, the entire bottom plate should be one piece not like alphacool does it.

Toothy1911 · 6 Oct 2020 at 08:41

oldbanana said:
I cant stand EK so wont be buying their crap

oldbanana said:
alphacool cheaps out on the blocks using minimal copper

I mean, we can't help if you dont like anything lol. You might get something from Byski, or Heatkiller?
Alphacool includes a back plate remember. And yes there is less copper, but more machining so costs get a little offset there.
Why waste natural resources if it's not required? There are quite a few who agree the Alphacool design is growing on us.

Radox-0 · 6 Oct 2020 at 10:45

Phankets look to have blocks coming out. To be honest love there ones the most prior gen, like mix of silver and black plating alongside plexi rather then all plexi. Though not quiet as fond of the black and silver plating going that far up this based on the renders

RexAlba · 6 Oct 2020 at 14:36

Easily my favorite so far... even less plexi showing would be good for me, a bit on the opposite side of the die would have been perfect

oldbanana · 6 Oct 2020 at 17:26

Toothy1911 said:
I mean, we can't help if you dont like anything lol. You might get something from Byski, or Heatkiller?
Alphacool includes a back plate remember. And yes there is less copper, but more machining so costs get a little offset there.
Why waste natural resources if it's not required? There are quite a few who agree the Alphacool design is growing on us.

How does the plexi block with copper strips have more machining vs entire copper base block? I understand wanting to save natural materials but why does a pinch of copper and a load of plexi cost 140 if they want to cheap out why not pass the saving to the customer not very appealing buying a waterblock thats 75% plexi.

Parsley · 6 Oct 2020 at 18:05

oldbanana said:
How does the plexi block with copper strips have more machining vs entire copper base block? I understand wanting to save natural materials but why does a pinch of copper and a load of plexi cost 140 if they want to cheap out why not pass the saving to the customer not very appealing buying a waterblock thats 75% plexi.

They do pass the saving to the customer as the backplate is included in the price and it's still priced well. Have you seen how much something like an EK block costs in total when you add the separately purchased backplate to it?

oldbanana · 6 Oct 2020 at 19:05

waterblocks were 100 a few years ago, now they are almost 200, while using less copper, makes no sense, in 2025 we will pay 500 for a waterblock if this is accepted.

Parsley · 6 Oct 2020 at 20:31

Well now you've just moved the goalposts. *Shrug*

agnes · 6 Oct 2020 at 21:02

@oldbanana you're in a thread discussing watercooling the 3000 series of all GPU's, if money is an issue, don't watercool? And I've only seen argumentative responses so far and nothing constructive, give it a rest.

Anyway, to the topic at hand, I'm likely going to go with EK, I've always had great experience with their blocks and love the simple designs. @Jay85 how are temps in that configuration? I've got the same case, currently got my 9900k @ 5ghz on all cores and my EVGA 2080 ti XC heavily OC'd under one loop. With a EK PE 360 both top and bottom with Noctua NF-A12x25's on both rads and one at the rear pushing in air to create more positive pressure. As for res, I have the EK FLT 360 res where you've got your 2 res's. I've always used soft tubing and this was my first hard tube build so some of the tubes certainly need to be re-done and with the hopeful delivery of my 3090 soon (HA!), now's a good a time as any.

What I'm thinking is scrapping the FLT 360 res/pump combo and instead of going with a standing tube res/pump combo and installing a third 360 PE radiator on the side pulling air in. Totalling in 3 radiators for the 2 components, however, not sure a single D5 will cope with that amount of loop.

Defy Belief · 6 Oct 2020 at 21:05

agnes said:
@oldbanana
What I'm thinking is scrapping the FLT 360 res/pump combo and instead of going with a standing tube res/pump combo and installing a thirst 360 PE radiator on the side pulling air in. Totalling in 3 radiators for the 2 components, however, not sure a single D5 will cope with that amount of loop.

I'm running a ddc pump with 5 rads, a mix of a 360, 280, 240 and 2 x 120s, no issues, I know ddcs can cope with more resistant loops but I imagine your d5 would be fine

agnes · 6 Oct 2020 at 21:07

Defy Belief said:
I'm running a ddc pump with 5 rads, a mix of a 360, 280, 240 and 2 x 120s, no issues, I know ddcs can cope with more resistant loops but I imagine your d5 would be fine

Interesting, what speed mate? Generally I keep my pump RPM to around 1600 at idle and it creeps up to 1900 after extended periods and the liquid temps level out. Anything higher and I start to hear it which is what I try to avoid.

Defy Belief · 6 Oct 2020 at 21:13

agnes said:
Interesting, what speed mate? Generally I keep my pump RPM to around 1600 at idle and it creeps up to 1900 after extended periods and the liquid temps level out. Anything higher and I start to hear it which is what I try to avoid.

think it's set to about 1800rpm, about 35%, 100% is 4500rpm if I remember right.

Fans are at about 800rpm too so it's all silent.

agnes · 6 Oct 2020 at 21:54

Defy Belief said:
think it's set to about 1800rpm, about 35%, 100% is 4500rpm if I remember right.

Fans are at about 800rpm too so it's all silent.

Oh nice! That's good to know, thank you! Time to get ordering then

And yea, 4,830 is my max rpm readout, to be taken with a pinch of salt.

3t3P · 7 Oct 2020 at 17:37

Defy Belief said:
I'm running a ddc pump with 5 rads, a mix of a 360, 280, 240 and 2 x 120s, no issues, I know ddcs can cope with more resistant loops but I imagine your d5 would be fine

What behemoth of a case holds all that?!

Defy Belief · 7 Oct 2020 at 17:56

3t3P said:
What behemoth of a case holds all that?!

One with external rads

Radox-0 · 7 Oct 2020 at 19:08

RexAlba said:
Easily my favorite so far... even less plexi showing would be good for me, a bit on the opposite side of the die would have been perfect

Yeah I loved there block for prior Gen, was absolutely perfect IMO in terms of bits on show and what's not on show. There prior gen blocks like so

Heatkiller also look to be making blocks, initially for reference PCB then popular AIBs after, there blocks look quiet nice too: https://www.overclock.net/threads/official-heatkiller-club.528648/post-28644202

Jay85 · 10 Oct 2020 at 23:31

@Toothy1911 have you got your card yet??

wookiee87 · 11 Oct 2020 at 01:05

i was lucky enough to pick up a zotac rtx 3080 trinity and not a week later i was browsing another website and happen to find the last zotac rtx 3090 in stock so i snapped that up too, i have sold on the 3080 (at msrp i'm not a scalper) and hopefully ek will send my new trinity 3080/3090 waterblock soon so i can tame it and rase the average clock's

for the lols i took a picture of all the cards i had before installing the 3090 in my pc and packing up the 3080 and liquid devil for the people who purchased them

Jay85 · 11 Oct 2020 at 01:44

wookiee87 said:
i was lucky enough to pick up a zotac rtx 3080 trinity and not a week later i was browsing another website and happen to find the last zotac rtx 3090 in stock so i snapped that up too, i have sold on the 3080 (at msrp i'm not a scalper) and hopefully ek will send my new trinity 3080/3090 waterblock soon so i can tame it and rase the average clock's

for the lols i took a picture of all the cards i had before installing the 3090 in my pc and packing up the 3080 and liquid devil for the people who purchased them

Congratz Wookie!! What a gem to get both the 3080 and 3090! I'm still waiting on my 3080 which ive got on preorder with ocuk but im contemplating cancelling it and just keeping the 3090 tbh lol. The coolers and size are identical on both the 3080 and 3090 lol, only difference being the extra memory chips on the back which 100% needs a backplate and active cooling. Let me know how you get on with the EK block as im hitting 55c on some intensive games on my alphacool block! I'm waiting on the Aquacomputer block which has the active cooling backplate. It gets so toasty its ridiculous!