Water cooling 2080ti questions

[Yan816]

If I plan on adding it to my watercooling loop, does it really matter which 2080ti I buy? Is there any particular brand that is likely to yield better results than others when I overclock it?

 

[dangel]

If I plan on adding it to my watercooling loop, does it really matter which 2080ti I buy? Is there any particular brand that is likely to yield better results than others when I overclock it?

It doesn't really seem so but obviously if you buy a card you have to have a matching block so block availability plays a bit part of this.

I went with a FE as EK had a block planned for release day and i'll be fitting it this week. One thing to consider is warranty support - EVGA stand out as allowing waterblocks but most don't. I had ASUS cards on the 1080 series complete with warranty stickers on the screws so I had a major risk if I needed to return one. I felt with the 2080ti series it wasn't worth paying a premium as FEs seemed to be doing about the same in benches.

Make sure you've got a lot of cooling capacity in the loop - GPUs see massive temp drops from WC but they do need to shift a lot of heat. That said I managed well with SLI'd 1080s + CPU with a big quad rad so I think i'll see an improvement with just one card.

 

[tyler_jrb]

I was looking at an EVGA card but at the time the price increase over a founders edition didn’t seem worth it as it was the same cost as a FE, block and backplate.

However EVGA are doing a black edition for $999 so will be worth looking into if cost is an issue.

They all pretty much overclock the same. Just the power limits on some of the AIB cards will be higher as the FE hits it’s limit pretty easily. I have a 366w bios on mine and it still gets close vs the original 320w.

My FE for example under water sits at around 40c at 2130mhz. Still not fully oc yet either.

 

[Yan816]

It doesn't really seem so but obviously if you buy a card you have to have a matching block so block availability plays a bit part of this.

I went with a FE as EK had a block planned for release day and i'll be fitting it this week. One thing to consider is warranty support - EVGA stand out as allowing waterblocks but most don't. I had ASUS cards on the 1080 series complete with warranty stickers on the screws so I had a major risk if I needed to return one. I felt with the 2080ti series it wasn't worth paying a premium as FEs seemed to be doing about the same in benches.

Make sure you've got a lot of cooling capacity in the loop - GPUs see massive temp drops from WC but they do need to shift a lot of heat. That said I managed well with SLI'd 1080s + CPU with a big quad rad so I think i'll see an improvement with just one card.

I am in the middle of a new build using the TT Tower 900 with 2 loops each with a 480 rad, so the card will be on one loop. I have been looking at the Palit cards as it seems to be the cheapest and is available.