Waterblock Fitting Services for 5090 GPU ?

Sin_Chase said:
I run a custom loop for noise and a large extent keeping temperatures more reasonable under load (Not that air fooled temperaturs are dangerous mind). Long gone are any notable performance gains so any slight bump in frequencies is a silver lining rather than the ultimate goal.

5090FE at 35 Deg C under full load with 0 noise is nice!
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35c? That’s impressive. Are you using LM? I have a Inno3D Frostbite with PTM and at full tilt sits in the 50s
 
5090 ventus with alphacool block goes up 50 for me. 3x360 rad. Wonder how much radspace you need to have 35c 5090 under load
 
loonyk said:
5090 ventus with alphacool block goes up 50 for me. 3x360 rad. Wonder how much radspace you need to have 35c 5090 under load
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For me even some games are even lower mids 40s to 50, very stressed application gets no higher than 60. This is with a MoRa IV 400.

*with +325 on core and +3000 on memory, no undervolt
 
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Personally OP, I wouldn’t pay RTX5090 money to then pay more money for someone to void the cards warranty by fitting a water block, especially with a card that has a very real chance of melting itself. For me it would make more sense to buy one of the versions with an AIO and long warranty.
 
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Following out of interest. I'm used to custom water, but recently bought a pre-made rig that had no water option.

I am finding the 5090 to be surprisingly quiet most of the time (it's a Gigabyte one), but not quite dead silent. Not sure I'd want to gamble myself for a few dB.
 
Just do what I did.. first time I water blocked a GPU(s) was 2 amd 7990’s so basically 800w worth lol.

Steps I followed.

I had a YouTube video of a strip down on hand and th. I proceeded to drink large amounts of alcohol because I was so stressed. I don’t actually remember finishing fitting both cards into the loop but when I woke up the next morning it worked..

Keep me posted
 
With respect, if you're not confident to try and block the GPU yourself then how are you going to handle maintenance? You don't just build these and leave it, things need cleaning from time to time, and sometimes that involves completely stripping down blocks.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if the OP has probably abandoned the idea of a 5090 now given the stupid prices. But I wouldn't be that stressed about the potential maintenance issues with a GPU block down the line, I think I've only ever dismantled a GPU block once in my time, and that was only because it was a bare copper block that had gone black with that tarnish, and I wanted to see what is was like under the acetal cover. Yeah it was all black but I'm past that being an issue that affects temperatures to any noticeable degree that would really require cleaning. These days they are all nickel plated so that type of issue is not relevant anyway nowadays. It's only if you use fluids with dyes or those awful pastel fluids, or use dodgy tubing with plasticiser, that you probably need to clean it out. So avoid them and he wouldn't really need to worry about taking a GPU block apart.
 
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Unless you buy an EK block and the nickel starts flaking just because you looked at it funny. And every soft tube has plasticiser unless you get EPDM, and even then I've seen the occasional Reddit post about it leaking oils or something.
 
That looks so close to rust - eventhough it isn't - it would gives me PTSD. I hope you have a non-glass case lol!
 
Got a glass side panel
That's the active backplate
Cant seem the front waterblock
On the gpu
Would have to shove my phone in
And take a blind photo to see
If front block is back to the copper
As well

Looks bad but it's not affecting
The temperature
 
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