Nvidia 30X0 series waterblocks

steverebo said:
I'm actually now considering swapping my EK velocity full nickel and ek kinetic 250 d5 pump res combo to Corsair alternatives, I think fittings go no matter what but aesthetically its nice to have matching parts
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Sounds like me lol :p

Had a Phanteks CPU and GPU block in my HTPC build. Just ordered a EK block for my 3080FE (after broken 3090FE was sent back) and at same time picked up a full cover waterblock in black friday deal they have. Lucky that as my ITX board is one of the few with there full cover blocks so thought why not. Yeah ditto on fittings aslong as the fittings are the same as one another then looks great.

That said EK pricing is mental, those two bits come in at £370 which is getting up there these!
 
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This is my setup ek everything (except rads they are black Ice) including the new Vardar fans although I do use a corsair commander Pro and have everything linked up via icue with some custom adaptors.

I'm still worried that corsair gpu block will look out of place stuff you EK for your stupid price insanity
 
steverebo said:
Temporary soft tube run ready for my gpu block rest is all hard line acrylic, I'm not too keen on it but needs must lol
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Well personally I couldn't care less about brand matching as long as it looks good. You can pretty much only see the backplate and nubby bit where the tubes go. I quite like the right angled design of EK products but given they've adopted sod off prices and weird tube locations I'm looking at corsair or alphacool.

Can you even tell this is an EK block?
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Disco_P said:
Well personally I couldn't care less about brand matching as long as it looks good. You can pretty much only see the backplate and nubby bit where the tubes go. I quite like the right angled design of EK products but given they've adopted sod off prices and weird tube locations I'm looking at corsair or alphacool.

Can you even tell this is an EK block?
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Waa Waa Wee Waa! I like! Great Success!
 
Disco_P said:
Well personally I couldn't care less about brand matching as long as it looks good. You can pretty much only see the backplate and nubby bit where the tubes go. I quite like the right angled design of EK products but given they've adopted sod off prices and weird tube locations I'm looking at corsair or alphacool.

Can you even tell this is an EK block?
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Miss the simplicity of soft tubing, great job there mate.
 
finally up and running but i have a issue the block isnt sitting right as temps shoot up to 67 degrees in a second :(

here is a snippet of the build i did earlier

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bit out of order but eh :)


if the block was right then i'd be very happy, but i can't be too mad, i have quick disconnects on the gpu loop so it'll save me draining the whole loop :)
other than the above what do you all think, i like the 12/16mm tubing i changed over too :)
 
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backup and running and card is under 60 degrees under full oc load, managed to apply a +155 core and +825 memory so far and scored the following in timespy

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/15662155

one thing to note i didnt set max performace mode in nvidia control pannel so my average gpu clock will go more, plus i set thread optimsation too so cpu may do more, fingers crossed :)

it worked scored the following

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/15662707
 
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just installed an EK trinity waterblock on my zotac trinity 3090 , h/s and fan idle was 50oc at 20oc ambient going to 70oc , now its 22oc idle and 48oc under 4hr load , i think the fan stop mode at idle bumped it upto 50oc to be fair but im very impressed by what it drops the temperatures by.
 
How are the overclocks changing for peeps under water. Hard to judge from offset alone as boost does its own behaviour on top anyways which is what varies.
 
wookiee87 said:
backup and running and card is under 60 degrees under full oc load, managed to apply a +155 core and +825 memory so far and scored the following in timespy

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/15662155

one thing to note i didnt set max performace mode in nvidia control pannel so my average gpu clock will go more, plus i set thread optimsation too so cpu may do more, fingers crossed :)

it worked scored the following

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/15662707
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Any problems with taking the original cooler off? :)
 
wookiee87 said:
one i tore off the led connection that powers the geforce rtx led on the card apart from that everyhing was good and more importantly the card still works which was a releif :)
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:) yeah those flimsy connectors are worrying me a bit. I know it doesn't matter once they are off but still.
 
avatar12m said:
just installed an EK trinity waterblock on my zotac trinity 3090 , h/s and fan idle was 50oc at 20oc ambient going to 70oc , now its 22oc idle and 48oc under 4hr load , i think the fan stop mode at idle bumped it upto 50oc to be fair but im very impressed by what it drops the temperatures by.
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was it difficult to install? Think I would be crapping myself taking a 3090 apart
 
Radox-0 said:
How are the overclocks changing for peeps under water. Hard to judge from offset alone as boost does its own behaviour on top anyways which is what varies.
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Underwater I went from 1980 at stock with power limit maxed to 2070. This was not touching the core clock.

+140 on air cooled peaked at 2130 and now at 2160. You are still limited to silicon quality though. Mine is average for a Strix 3090 and won’t go above that at least on the second graphics test on timespy. First test will now handle 2175 which was impossible before. I’m still using bad thermal pads and unoptimized paste for testing purposes, but I doubt it will go higher just cooler once properly optmized
 
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haszek said:
Any problems with taking the original cooler off? :)
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cards are actually tougher than you think. I put my 1080ti through a dish washer to clean it had it lying doing nothing exposed for a year and finally put a block on it last week using a tooth brush soaked in alchol to clean it again the other day and worked better than ever
 
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