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2015/11/26 10:04:48 (permalink)
So, on Halloween I went out and splurged on two glorious EVGA 980 Ti Classifieds at my local computer shop. $1424 extremely well spent, as they perform incredibly right out of the box. GPU Boost 2.0 sends the Core Clock all the way to 1405 without modifying any voltage, power target, or sliders. Brilliant performance. 
 
I now love these cards so much that I feel I must water cool them. The craftsmanship deserves all the protection and support modern technology can provide. However, with the Classy custom PCB, I cannot simply order any 980 Ti full water block. EKWB has options, but I am a truly loyal customer to EVGA. I want to get Hydrocopper blocks for both of my cards but I haven't found any information online or on EVGA.com that suggests or confirms the Titan X or 980 Ti Hydrocopper kits will fit the 980 Ti Classified PCB.
 
Please guide me in the direction of whether or not using EVGA Hydrocopper full water blocks on both my 980 Ti Classy's will be possible! I do not want to go with EKWB unless there is no other choice. Not to say they aren't a great company, but I want to stay true to EVGA, as y'all have consistently taken care of me as a customer and have yet to do anything but impress me with the products I've bought from you.
 
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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/11/26 12:32:37 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby matthall0531 2015/11/27 12:52:52
Not sure if you realize it, but EKWB makes the Hydrocopper block for EVGA. I use, exclusively, EKWB in all my rigs. I have used them on my 780Ti's and my 980's. I also have my motherboards with EKWB blocks. In my opinion, I would use them no matter what.

Enjoy the water cooling exercise, as once it bits, you're hooked and soon you'll be watercolling the refrigerator. Not really, but it is a fun thing to do, plan, organize, as well as a great way to keep temperatures in line when pushing your equipment.



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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/11/26 15:13:12 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby matthall0531 2015/11/27 12:52:40
I have my 980ti classy watercooled using the EK Predator just go to their site and use the configure tool unless it has changed you will use the EK-FC780 GTX Classy full VGA waterblock that is the one i have also you will have to drain and refill the predator to put it on your card if you email them they will help you pick what you need and give video link on empting/ refilling the predator if you do this be sure to order a bottle of their premix clear coolant you will need it.highest temp i noticed so far was about 33c overclocked at 1557 so far just have not taken time to go higher yet

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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/11/27 12:13:11 (permalink)
Awesome! Thank you for the replies everyone!!
 
I went out and bought an EKWB Predator 240 today (I already have a Corsair h110i GT on the top of my case cooling the i7-5930k, so I needed a 240mm to use on the front or bottom). I only intend to use the EKP 240 for my two 980 Ti Classifieds. That way I can have two independent loops for my most significant and hottest parts.
 
Have y'all used this setup to cool two video cards this powerful? They will both run close to 1500 MHz on air, so I imagine they will definitely sustain that 1.5 GHz mark after I put them underwater. I intend to keep my system's Firestrike Ultra/Extreme/Regular benchmarks at the 99th percentile scores by pushing these bad boys to the limit.
 
Is there anything I should be adding to the Predator 240 setup to make it more efficient, give it better cooling capacity, or some other significant addition (this being my first time setting up water cooled video cards) I wouldn't think of? Maybe certain brands or types of fittings, copper tubing, straight lines and right angles versus flexible tubing? Any and all input will be gratefully appreciated guys!
 
I do plan on using the EKWB full coverage water blocks and backplates. If EVGA made Hydrocoppers for the 980 Ti Classifieds ( removed aceonym seriously why don't they!) then I'd use them for the looks. But EKWB, based on my research, is king of the water cooling hill. That's why I had zero hesitation buying the Predator 240 today. Though to be fair, it was an Open Box deal and cost only $159.96 versus $200 :)
 
Thank you for you time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
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My apologies for the tasteless acronym guys... I've been a little too excited about finally water cooling my video cards. Know this,  I love y'alls Hydrocoppers with the passion of a billion Maxwell silicon stars and just wish there was one to fit the Classified/Kingpin edition cards.
 
I will more wisely word my phrases from now on. I do value being allowed to join forums on this site. 
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But now that I am on your radar, would you mind telling me if there are plans to create Hydrocoppers for the Classified and Kingpins edition 980 Ti's? I certainly would refrain from buying EKWB's version if EVGA has their full coverage blocks coming soon.
post edited by matthall0531 - 2015/11/27 12:51:14

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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/11/27 12:24:20 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby matthall0531 2015/11/27 12:51:49
Edited your post. Just removed the acronym for profanity. Please refrain from using profanity and acronyms of profanity as it is against the forum terms of service.
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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/11/27 14:48:06 (permalink)
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Awesome! Thank you for the replies everyone!!

I went out and bought an EKWB Predator 240 today (I already have a Corsair h110i GT on the top of my case cooling the i7-5930k, so I needed a 240mm to use on the front or bottom). I only intend to use the EKP 240 for my two 980 Ti Classifieds. That way I can have two independent loops for my most significant and hottest parts.

Have y'all used this setup to cool two video cards this powerful? They will both run close to 1500 MHz on air, so I imagine they will definitely sustain that 1.5 GHz mark after I put them underwater. I intend to keep my system's Firestrike Ultra/Extreme/Regular benchmarks at the 99th percentile scores by pushing these bad boys to the limit.

Is there anything I should be adding to the Predator 240 setup to make it more efficient, give it better cooling capacity, or some other significant addition (this being my first time setting up water cooled video cards) I wouldn't think of? Maybe certain brands or types of fittings, copper tubing, straight lines and right angles versus flexible tubing? Any and all input will be gratefully appreciated guys!

I do plan on using the EKWB full coverage water blocks and backplates. If EVGA made Hydrocoppers for the 980 Ti Classifieds ( removed aceonym seriously why don't they!) then I'd use them for the looks. But EKWB, based on my research, is king of the water cooling hill. That's why I had zero hesitation buying the Predator 240 today. Though to be fair, it was an Open Box deal and cost only $159.96 versus $200 :)

Thank you for you time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
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My apologies for the tasteless acronym guys... I've been a little too excited about finally water cooling my video cards. Know this,  I love y'alls Hydrocoppers with the passion of a billion Maxwell silicon stars and just wish there was one to fit the Classified/Kingpin edition cards.
 
I will more wisely word my phrases from now on. I do value being allowed to join forums on this site. 
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
But now that I am on your radar, would you mind telling me if there are plans to create Hydrocoppers for the Classified and Kingpins edition 980 Ti's? I certainly would refrain from buying EKWB's version if EVGA has their full coverage blocks coming soon.


you may want to email EK support if only to verify that you have the correct fittings you may or may not need some angled fittings/extra tubing/cooling fluid tell exactly what you have and want to do those guys are great at customer support also you may want to checkout r/pc watercooling it is a good sub be patience take your time congrats on your new addiction PC WATERCOOLING

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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/11/27 14:56:34 (permalink) ☼ Best Answerby matthall0531 2015/11/28 02:29:57
matthall0531 
But now that I am on your radar, would you mind telling me if there are plans to create Hydrocoppers for the Classified and Kingpins edition 980 Ti's? I certainly would refrain from buying EKWB's version if EVGA has their full coverage blocks coming soon.


EKWB makes the hydrocopper blocks now anyway, so in the end you are only paying more for the same block.

EVGA has no intention of getting the classified or kingpin a specific hydrocopper at this point, since they have been out for so long (980's have been out well over a year with no hydrocopper). At this point, you would be buying the exact same thing with an older style find pass through honestly.

EK uses the new jet pass through on their new style blocks and when evga contracts ek to make the hydrocopper, they use the old straight through fins instead of the jet pass through.


The 780 block has the straight pass through:



The 900 blocks and newer feature a jet pass through (this does not apply to the 780 classified or old swiftech hydrocopper block that still works with 980ti classified cards) :

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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/11/28 02:33:04 (permalink)
Scarlet-Tech:
 
Thank you for the reply! I didn't know that EVGA outsourced their Hydrocopper through EKWB. Being a die-hard EVGA fan, I would still buy the 980 Ti Classified Hydrocopper plates if there were any being made, old style or not. 
 
However, it is good news that y'all do contract EKWB. If y'all trust them to build your products then I trust them with mine! 

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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/11/28 04:21:21 (permalink)
On thing that you may like, even though they are tough to find, the 980ti classified uses the same waterblock ad the 780 classified. If you can find the old swiftech block, you could use that for a 980ti classified.
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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/12/06 09:39:34 (permalink)
Scarlet-Tech, quick question. 
 
What are the graphic links on your signature (assuming it's part of your Signature). 
 
Are there things I could link to mine such as build specifics, 3DMark/PCMark scores, CPU-Z/GPU-Z Validations, etc..? In graphic, not text, format like yours.
 
Oh my, you have four K|ngp|ns... Those are the most brilliantly engineered video cards on the planet. I so wish I could have found two 980 Ti K|ngp|ns for SLI instead of "settling" for the Classifieds. I truly believe they are, whether the Gigabyte equivalent gets a minutely higher core clock speed or not, the most radical and passionately designed custom video card models ever to grace our planet.
 
Apologies if I'm acting noobish. I haven't spent much time in the proper forums yet, and I'm eager to get away from the plethora of fools connected to sites that use Disqus.

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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/12/06 09:54:17 (permalink)
In my signature, I have my main rig, secondary benching rig (hasn't been used just yet sadly)

After that, I have my folding at home stats and my affiliate code.

To edit your signature, go to the top of the page and select settings and then edit.

Go to the bar on the left (Signatures and Comments) and just edit in there. If you want to put a small pictures, just load them to google or imugr or another photo sharing website. Load it and then copy the image url.

Go back to your signs ture and type [image ]imageurllinkhere[/image ] (no spaces or it won't work). Then save it. It should turn into a picture for you.
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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/12/06 10:01:52 (permalink)
http://forums.evga.com/GeForce-Game-Ready-Driver-35906-available-for-download-m2419670.aspx
Thank you very much for the reply! I'll get on customizing my information ASAP.
 
Since you're online, and clearly an intelligent tech, would you mind looking at a post I just put up regarding driver issues I've been stuck with for the past few iterations of GeForce Driver updates? 
 
Here is the link to the forum and my post is all the way at the bottom.
 
Okay, trying to get the link to appear and it's not wanting to. Unsure why, I'll keep trying.
 
Found out why, I'm restricted until I make a certain number of posts. Need 2 more.
 
It's under 
GeForce Game Ready Driver 359.06 available for downloadat the bottom of the thread.
 
 
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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/12/06 10:04:42 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby matthall0531 2015/12/06 10:05:41
You have to have 50 posts minimum for links, so it automatically removes them until you get to 50 posts. I will glance at the threads though.
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Re: EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified Water Cooling Solutions. Help Please! 2015/12/06 10:05:54 (permalink)
Aye, thank you for that.

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