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Iluv2raceit

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Gingertechy
I wish Corsair would come out with the bracket to connect one of their AIO's to the GPU. Waiting sucks but it is better for them to take their time and make a good product then rush and ruin it. 

doesn't the NZXT G10 bracket work on the 10xx series?
 
IIRC, a member here has one on his 1070.

According to the NZXT website, the Kraken G10 is compatible with the GTX1080.  Oddly enough, the GTX1070 is not listed:
 
https://www.nzxt.com/products/kraken-g10-black

that's weird because a member on here made a thread about using the G10 on his 1070 and OC'ing it.
 
there are even videos of people being able to install the G10 bracket onto Nvidia GPU's with aftermarket coolers. all u need to do is go out and buy 4 screws and some nylon washers.

Exactly - weird.  I am not doubting what you have stated in your posts.  It's just a snafu with the NZXT website folks not properly listing specifications.  Oh well, what can we as the consumer do but complain about it until 'they' fix it ;-)

Is it known by now, if the fan is interchangable without soldering or the likes?

And is it 3pin or 4pin pwm?

Thanks for any possible answer

FaithNoMore82
Is it known by now, if the fan is interchangable without soldering or the likes?

And is it 3pin or 4pin pwm?

Thanks for any possible answer

 
My unicorn card arrived.  Fan is 3 pin connector, but only uses 2 wires (both from the card and to the fan).
 
I haven't taken the fan off, but it appears to be connected with 4 long screws.  There are matching screw holes on the other side of the radiator. It looks like it would be very easy to change the side of the radiator the fan is on and/or to flip the fan to a pull instead of a push.... . You could also mount both a push and a pull fan.  The fan is 120mm.  The radiator is 120x150x25 mm.
 
Haven't hooked it up yet.  Won't for a a few days as I'm travelling starting tomorrow.  Looks very professionally built and packaged however.
 

JayzTwoCents is releasing his review of the 1080 Hybrid in a few hours.

Seems as if I cant post links to his twitter, but he wrote ETA 4 hours about 1 hour ago.

Nice OC with the Hybrid! :D

I like JayZ's brutal honesty in that EVGA really does need to change the stock radiator fan configuration.  Currently, it is hard controlled by the thermostat on the pump and there is no way for the user to manually change the fan curve whatsoever.  Only the blower fan can be controlled by the user through a 3rd party tool (EVGA Precision OC, MSI Afterburner, etc).  He proved that having said control over the radiator fan can have a huge effect on temperatures - almost 10C in fact, which was just amazing to me.  All he did was replace the stock EVGA radiator fan with two 3rd party fans (push/pull configuration) and connected those fans to the motherboard and set the BIOS to control them.  Temps dropped from 51C to 42C...and yes those temps are from testing under full load benchmarking 
 
Sooooo, I do hope that the EVGA engineers are taking note and will make this happen in a future Hybrid version.  Two other improvements I could see being added are 1) use of a 140mm radiator in place of the current 120mm radiator, and 2) option for Quick Disconnect fittings so that the Hybrid could be more easily integrated with other AiO cooling solutions.
 
I do have to give big kudos to EVGA for the overall design of the new Hybrid.  Going with the FTW PCB and 10+2 voltage stepping has proven to be a great design decision.  And the new Hybrid runs super quiet thanks to the replacement of the standard blower fan with the new propeller type fan.  And those two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors weren't talked about very much by JayZ other than that he thinks it will help provide more stable power during clock boosts.  No mention of it directly contributing to higher overclocking.  I guess time will tell that tale
 
My EVGA GTX1080 FTW Hybrid arrives later today and I will provide more feedback once I have had a chance to test it out over the weekend.

its not that hard. i just unplugged and removed the stock rad fan. i put a noctua nf-f12 in its place, ran it to a motherboard header and use asus fan expert to control it. realistically the card isnt going to perform any better at 41c then it would at 51c. so the cost of the card would go up but still perform the same; thats not smart for evga.
 
i get being able to control the rad fan would be cool. and i do want that feature as well. but i can see why it may have been left out to hit certain price points (and performance per dollar points)

cmoney408
realistically the card isnt going to perform any better at 41c then it would at 51c. so the cost of the card would go up but still perform the same

 
I wouldn't be so sure, from various reports I've read so far on the 1080 50c seems to be the first significant threshhold for gpu boost, beyond which throttling starts to come into effect. So a solution that keeps the temp below 50c even at 2160mhz overclock would be ideal and should result in very little variance in that speed, not so much fluctuation and dropping like you would get with air cards. Would basically be the perfect 1080, so fingers crossed all Hybrids can achieve similar numbers.

Iluv2raceit
All he did was replace the stock EVGA radiator fan with two 3rd party fans (push/pull configuration) and connected those fans to the motherboard and set the BIOS to control them.  Temps dropped from 51C to 42C...and yes those temps are from testing under full load benchmarking 

 
Slight correction, if you watch that part again, he is using speedfan to control the radiator fan and was setting it to 1200-1300rpm, this achieved 44c with the simple 1 fan replacement and 41-42c with 2 in push-pull.
 
Now if I set my case 120mm fans to 1200-1300 that would be quite a bit louder than i'm used to, but they are not high end fans or anything, I assume those vardar fans will be quieter. So I've went ahead and ordered one and plan on fitting it on as soon as my hybrid arrives. An extra 15 bux for such an improvement should be well worth.

cmoney408
its not that hard. i just unplugged and removed the stock rad fan. i put a noctua nf-f12 in its place, ran it to a motherboard header and use asus fan expert to control it. realistically the card isnt going to perform any better at 41c then it would at 51c. so the cost of the card would go up but still perform the same; thats not smart for evga.
 
i get being able to control the rad fan would be cool. and i do want that feature as well. but i can see why it may have been left out to hit certain price points (and performance per dollar points)

You make valid points, however the fact is that EVGA should still allow for the user to be able to control the radiator fan speed.