Nvidia 30X0 series waterblocks

Radox-0 said:
Apparently it has there biggest cooling engine to date, not sure what that will mean for actual results, gut feel not much over other models. That said does look like a whole hunk of metal there, so imagine that may also passively be able to radiate heat away from the card:
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There is a limit to how well a piece of copper can cool unless you really open up cool plate and add a shed load of micro channels. But the difference will only ever be a few degrees, that is why the difference between all the cpu and gpu blocks are so marginal. You usually see a few degree difference between the top tier blocks and the budget ones but the price will be vastly different.

But as we understand with overclocking, the few degrees in difference can mean a stable overclock of say 2145 on the core and 2050 for instance on my 3090 if the temp hits 50c, the gpu will downclock itself to the next lowest tier.
 
That’s a good point, it does potentially buy you an extra 50mhz or so. But I mean it’s not worth £250. For me the mix of silence too performance and it looking damn awesome (with the options for port placement) made this nearly worth it, then I got a bit of FOMO and bought it.
 
What difference will there be between the EK 3080 FE block the 3090 version? Most other blocks are advertised as working with 3080/3090 but in this case, EK has made a distinction and delayed release of 3090 by about a month compared to 3080.
 
Quare Crack said:
What difference will there be between the EK 3080 FE block the 3090 version? Most other blocks are advertised as working with 3080/3090 but in this case, EK has made a distinction and delayed release of 3090 by about a month compared to 3080.
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I would assume they will have some kind of heat dissipation for the back where the memory are on the 3090
 
BluZiff said:
That’s a good point, it does potentially buy you an extra 50mhz or so. But I mean it’s not worth £250. For me the mix of silence too performance and it looking damn awesome (with the options for port placement) made this nearly worth it, then I got a bit of FOMO and bought it.
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This is what your really paying for here, the looks and evidently decent amount of material EK are using for this model.

Quare Crack said:
What difference will there be between the EK 3080 FE block the 3090 version? Most other blocks are advertised as working with 3080/3090 but in this case, EK has made a distinction and delayed release of 3090 by about a month compared to 3080.
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They are not on the FE model the same PCB. The RTX 3090 FE PCB is actually larger, the SLI fingers for example are an easy spot, they are right on the edge of the FE cooler, but said cooler extends far beyond the Rear I/O shield where the PCB on the RTX 3080 ends. EK also mentioned there are different in a few spots on the facebook account in comment section for the 3080 FE block:

EK Water Blocks An Do unfortunately, no. The 3090 is larger.
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Another quote highlights the 3090 FE block is also longer:

EK Water Blocks Matt Amodio about 205mm for the 3080 and 230mm for the 3090
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Can see on 3080FE product page the EK block is indeed 205mm Long so imagine FE model will be longer at 230 mm. Looking at other competitors the FE blocks are also different, at least for Bykski, Alphacool and bitspower list different blocks for each FE model. Where its different is with aftermarket and reference PCB (not same as FE this gen) which seem to have more in common in terms of PCB between the 3080 and 3090.
 
redkrptonite said:
Has anyone had an ek strix 3080/3090 water block delivered yet. It seems as if it’s never going to arrive.
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Still waiting for my strix block and backplate.

last time I spoke with EK they said it should ship on the 13th, that was a couple of weeks ago now.

I will follow up today and see if they are still expecting to ship on Friday.

I pre ordered on the 20th of September I think it was.

still haven’t got my card so no rush.....not that EK need to know that
 
Matt72033 said:
Still waiting for my strix block and backplate.

last time I spoke with EK they said it should ship on the 13th, that was a couple of weeks ago now.

I will follow up today and see if they are still expecting to ship on Friday.

I pre ordered on the 20th of September I think it was.

still haven’t got my card so no rush.....not that EK need to know that
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Ah that will be good to know. I have an estimated delivery date of the 20th for my strix and the 23rd for the water block from the competition.
 
redkrptonite said:
Ah that will be good to know. I have an estimated delivery date of the 20th for my strix and the 23rd for the water block from the competition.
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That is great timing if everyone pulls through for you! :D

I actually just double checked the email with the 10% off code EK sent me and it said they expect to ship on the 20th, that was 5 days after their customer support told me it would ship on the 13th, and its very unlikely there would be any further delays to that :rolleyes:

I'm still number 150 something for my card with the opposition
 
A little frustrated with the EK 3090 founders.
Sept, Coming soon, October, coming this month, pre order opens for 3080 on the last day of Oct for 10th Dec delivery which after the initial batch now shows mid Dec. So my guess is 3090 announcement in the next week or two with an initial batch for 20/12.
I'm starting to think Im not getting a block until next year.
Card won't fit in my build with the original cooler.
 
Sc00p007 said:
A little frustrated with the EK 3090 founders.
Sept, Coming soon, October, coming this month, pre order opens for 3080 on the last day of Oct for 10th Dec delivery which after the initial batch now shows mid Dec. So my guess is 3090 announcement in the next week or two with an initial batch for 20/12.
I'm starting to think Im not getting a block until next year.
Card won't fit in my build with the original cooler.
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It was unfortunate they teased the FE models so soon. I suppose to keep hype up and avoid people jumping ship till they revealed. Sadly in same boat as you, Going into a HTPC ITX custom loop case, but current cooler too big.. In the end to just use it, repurposed an NAS case so got a massive case laying in living room which no one is happy about :p

I am guessing now similar, first part of 2021 we will see the block. I do wonder how brexit will affect importing given we will no longer be in the market by then :o
 
Matt72033 said:
That is great timing if everyone pulls through for you! :D

I actually just double checked the email with the 10% off code EK sent me and it said they expect to ship on the 20th, that was 5 days after their customer support told me it would ship on the 13th, and its very unlikely there would be any further delays to that :rolleyes:

I'm still number 150 something for my card with the opposition
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Well they responded to my ticket saying they are still expecting to ship it on Friday.....We will see!
 
I'm going to order the Byski 3080 FE block on AliExpress for £61.92 (11.11 sale + coupons) just need to probably wait 3-5 weeks for delivery :rolleyes:
 
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