chrisdglong
I cannot believe more people are not concerned with the response from EVGA regarding water damage. There is liquid in this cooler, a percentage will leak and destroy other components in the process... 

Pretty ignorant statement there. I've had my H100i cooler in my system running 24/7 for awhile now. A percentage will leak? No good sir, it won't just magically leak. If there is an issue somewhere in the loop, then yes it is possible. But liquid is not just going to seep out over time. That's not how things work. Do cars just spontaneously leak coolant everywhere? Similar system there my friend. As long as the connections are tight and everything functions as intended, it is FINE for the life of the product.
 
I don't care what's on the Corsair forum. Do you have any idea how many of these units are sold and used compared to how many people complain about a leak? The vocal ones are often the disgruntled ones - that's how it works. Happy people don't usually go out of their way to voice their satisfaction and experience. And besides, the coolant used AFAIK should not harm components as it is not conductive. It will make a mess, but it shouldn't blow your system up like regular water will.

Nitemare3219

chrisdglong
I cannot believe more people are not concerned with the response from EVGA regarding water damage. There is liquid in this cooler, a percentage will leak and destroy other components in the process... 

Pretty ignorant statement there. I've had my H100i cooler in my system running 24/7 for awhile now. A percentage will leak? No good sir, it won't just magically leak. If there is an issue somewhere in the loop, then yes it is possible. But liquid is not just going to seep out over time. That's not how things work. Do cars just spontaneously leak coolant everywhere? Similar system there my friend. As long as the connections are tight and everything functions as intended, it is FINE for the life of the product.
 
I don't care what's on the Corsair forum. Do you have any idea how many of these units are sold and used compared to how many people complain about a leak? The vocal ones are often the disgruntled ones - that's how it works. Happy people don't usually go out of their way to voice their satisfaction and experience. And besides, the coolant used AFAIK should not harm components as it is not conductive. It will make a mess, but it shouldn't blow your system up like regular water will.

Fact remains, a certain percentage WILL leak, being defective. 

chrisdglong

Vlada011
That's very small chance to leak and coolant inside is not danger as clear water.
If cooler leak they will replace card because it's very small chance to liquid destroy something...
You see position on AIO cooler. 
If you install him on HDD case as someone even if he leak coolant will not drop on hardware.
Graphic card PCB is above possible leak point in case. Tubes look little reinforced for durability. 
From pictures look very fine build and nice and they didn't forget backplate. 

Have you been to the Corsair forums, Googled, Corsair leak?? https://www.google.com/se...p;ie=UTF-8&qscrl=1

I didn't look CORSAIR Forum in last period but when I bought their AIO Systems I always read about leak.
H50, H70 and now H100. Some risk persist, with AIO on CPU risk is even bigger because liquid will drop probably on motherboard and on top of graphic PCB. In this case you can install on that way that even if he start to leak hardware will not be damaged. 
Only chance is for PSU, but if grill is not on top no way to leak so much that pass through PSU.
That would be probably full house of chemical smell much before that. If they use similar coolant. 
You see how he installed ... and where will liquid go in this case?
 

Thanks Vlada011 but I have never had leak problems with any Corsair AIO CPU Coolers.
As it is laid now I should not have any real problems if Corsair or EVGA AIO unit starts leaking.

zenfoldor

zennacko
A few noob questions about these cards, as I am desperate to play GTA V on release AND got beyond tired of the waiting game AMD is playing.

For step-up, overclock and heat purposes, which one is better to get: 980 FTW or 980 Hybrid?
I know it's a 70 dollar difference and one has an AIO while the other has a custom air cooler (and custom PCB?). However, in case a 980ti shows up in the next 3 months, either one of these can step up or did I miss something?

I'm fairly certain these could theoretically overclock better. There is a review on youtube that gets his card to 1600...but I also don't believe anything in this discussion is binned(correct me if I'm wrong) so you are highly at the mercy of the lottery. I would personally go for the FTW because I suspect it has better vrm cooling and cools better over the entirety of the card than the stock cooler, but even in this I may be wrong. As far as step-up to the 980ti, there is no way to know how that will be handled because the nomenclature of the card we are referring to as the 980ti may be different. I'm unsure of historical precedent in this case. Review I mentioned is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98P_NjK3ft8

That was a really nice review, thank you for that.
Jay said that 70FPS was great; Now my question is why are some users complaining that they cannot get 120FPS or More Gaming?
Some users are even complaining that their GTX 960 is not getting 120+FPS while gaming.

bcavnaugh did you get a chance to run 3DMark on your GTX 980 Hybrid?

decepti0n
bcavnaugh did you get a chance to run 3DMark on your GTX 980 Hybrid?

No not yet, I have not turned it on yet, my CPU and Memory comes in today.
My plan is to install Windows 10 so with one card it should run 3DMark without issues.

I'm happy to announce I successfully installed a 980 AIO on a Titan X. I have a 3rd Titan X coming in the next day or two and 3 AIO units in total. I will post pics and benchmarks then.
 
I did a simple benchmark test with Heaven 1.0. I have both cards overclocked to about 1400mhz with max power target, temp target, overvolt, ect.
 
My normal Titan X I ran the GPU fan at a static 100% which is around 4,800RPM (LOUD)
My AIO Titan X I ran the GPU fan at a static 20% which is around 1,000RPM (quiet)
I'm using a Corsair SP120 quiet edition running at a static 700RPM for the AIO radiator (quiet)
 
My AIO Titan X runs 20C+ cooler and obviously 10x quieter than the other Titan X running. I'm sure the difference would be 30C+ if both fans were running the same speed. More to come in a few days.
 

 

decepti0n
bcavnaugh did you get a chance to run 3DMark on your GTX 980 Hybrid?

All Stock Clocks CPU and GPU.
Scores Fire Strike 11819 Funny that 3dMark shows this GPU as "Graphics card is not recognized"
Idle Temperatures 25C MAX
AIDA64 GPU Burn-Stress 37C Base Line for Stock Fan and Settings.

seyumi
I'm happy to announce I successfully installed a 980 AIO on a Titan X. I have a 3rd Titan X coming in the next day or two and 3 AIO units in total. I will post pics and benchmarks then.
 
I did a simple benchmark test with Heaven 1.0. I have both cards overclocked to about 1400mhz with max power target, temp target, overvolt, ect.
 
My normal Titan X I ran the GPU fan at a static 100% which is around 4,800RPM (LOUD)
My AIO Titan X I ran the GPU fan at a static 20% which is around 1,000RPM (quiet)
I'm using a Corsair SP120 quiet edition running at a static 700RPM for the AIO radiator (quiet)
 
My AIO Titan X runs 20C+ cooler and obviously 10x quieter than the other Titan X running. I'm sure the difference would be 30C+ if both fans were running the same speed. More to come in a few days.
 

Nice Job seyumi Click on Above Image for Larger Size Photo.