I have the SC with this cooler. Backplate is also supported and the card looks really bada$$ with the backplate and water cooled. I have the 1070

I think that would work great, but maybe connect it to the motherboard to have control. I am unaware of the graphics card ever changing the radiator fan speed, but might be wrong, as I have only connected both of my fans to the motherboard. I replaced the stock fan with a Fractal Design Venturi HP-12 PWM Black Case Fan FD-FAN-VENT-HP12-PWM-BK, which lowered the temp about 5°C using my fan curve, and it is much quieter. I made some earlier posts here about using SpeedFan which you might find interesting.

@Mike
So installing this water cooler allows you to run a quiet fan curve since most of the noise comes from the blower on the card, right?  Especially if this kit is used on a titan pascal which uses GDDR5x which runs cooler. Would using 2 fans in push/pull add anything besides noise? Since the max temps people are reporting with the stock fan are 53 to 63 deg C , then that is already way below thermal limits.
 @UnderwaterSurfer
Yes I read about your use of speed fan to slow the fan. Thank you for the clear explanation with pix. I am a more analog kind of guy-my case is a fractal design and has a three position fan speed switch - so I might just use that.

Th

bwanaaa
Since the fan in this kit has only two pins, I assume that its speed is controlled by the graphics card adjusting the voltage. I am interested in changing to a fan with a higher static pressure and lower noise, the noctua industrial fan.
 
 
3.94 mmH20 vs 2.76 for the stock fan 
29.7 db vs 34.2 for the stock fan
 
Now this fan has a 4 pin connection but the graphic card only gives two wires to power the stock fan. Will this fan work since it is designed for PWM speed control, not voltage control?

Hi bwanaa
 
So just to clarify, I've done a bunch of testing with this cooler and I can also confirm that the stock fan is a 2 pin fan that runs at fixed rpms. The fan itself is molexed into a 3 pin connection so you can easily replace it with any 3 pin case fan. Notice the thin wire that is next to the water tubes (first pic). That's the wire feeding the radiator fan and it will NOT fit a pwm fan. The stock fan is also quite loud at least to my ears.
I tested it in push, pull and push pull. In my case, pull is tiny better and push pull gives me a delta in temps of about 5 to 8C .
I am running a 3 pin case fan that came with my air 240 case in push connected to the gpu cooler (so running at fixed RPMs but its quiet) and a Corsair ML120 pro White in pull hooked up to the mobo (see second pic). This fan is pricey but I really like it.  I am using speedfan to control the PWM fan. My idle temps are mid 30s and load temps high 50s. They may not be ideal for this cooler in push/pull but I  doubt I can do better given that I'm using a somewhat tiny case. I hope this helps.
 
 
 
 
 

bwanaaa
thank you aymanstile for your pix and info. I am curious about why you had the fans hooked up to separate power sources. Would the NVIDIA card not supply enough current to drive two rad fans plus the blower? I guess the card is already at max TDP when overclocked so anything we can do to reduce the power draw from the card is a plus. Why not put both cards off the mobo with a plug splitter? I thought it was bad to have fans spinning at different pressures across a rad?
 
From what I read, a lot of people want to increase the max vddc and tdp on the card. I even read someone putting liquid metal across the resistor near the power plug. That adds a little juice. I would just tape a bit of aluminum foil there.
 
The card has a tdp of 250 w. The pcie slot will give 75w. That means the molex plugs will draw 175w. A combination of 6 plus 8 pin molex plugs should supply up to 300 w. So there should be enough power available if the bios can be adjusted to allow more VDDC.

Just a matter of preference really and to keep my setup as clean as possible without adding any additional wires or splitters. My goal was "silence" over anything and if the stock fan was silent then I would have kept it. The other thing was that I have 5 Corsair ML120s cooling the entire system and 1 Corsair 3 pin case fan so for my OCD's sake I really wanted to get an additional ML 120 but the difference in performance would have been extremely small if any. Also the PWM Corsair fan set up in pull, is sharing a pwm spot with another fan blowing air directly on the videocard so I also wanted to be able to control both based on the GPU temp as opposed to using an additional PWM spot on the mobo (which would have implied running a wire across the mobo ).

Gusy I need your help.  I installed the hybrid cooler and it all seems to be working great.  As you may know the card's fans are setup to start running in my case (GTX1080SC) at around 60C.  With the cooler my temp never exceeds 45C so the fan basically never turns on to cool the Vram.
 
Is this ok, since before it turned on at around 60 or should I use Precision X to create a curve, if so, whats advised?
 
Thank you.

Thanks im surprised no one has discussed this so far. I set a custom fan curve on the Precisoson X software. The gpu idles at just under 30c so I've started the curve there. Not sure if it's needed to cool the vrm or whatever else at that point but since I don't know the temps I rather be careful. I think the gpu temp only refers to the actual chip.

I couldn't find anything related to this specific subject else where.

From what I gathered. Does that mean I can turn my superclocked 1080 into a hybrid?

yomny
After a day or so, running the fan in auto mode which doesn't start them till 60C, I started to get random flashes of color/patterns on my display.  I manually turned the fan on and they immediately went away.  Sucks that with the kit the vrm/vram fan uses the same profile as the regular cooler.

I've asked people about this and they all say they just leave it at stock. That's crazy! Since fan speed is directly proportional to GPU temp and GPU temp will never reach 60deg (unless you did something wrong or your AIO is broken), you will likely fry your board.
 
What fan speed did you set yours at?

Anyone replacing the radiator fan for something quieter with better flow?  At the moment this is the loudest fan I have and would like to upgrade it.  Currently looking at the commercial noctua 3pin 2k rpm, seems to flow better.
 
Are we sure this thing doesn't vary speeds, the fan or pump?  I was stressing the GPU yesterday using Firestrike stresstest and I could have sworn the fan was spinning faster.  At the very least I felt a lot hotter air coming our the rear of the radiator.

Ok folks , need some help/advise here.  Currently I'm using a Genome II from Deepcool -> http://www.deepcool.com/product/case/GENOME/index.shtm with 2x EVGA 1080's FEs.  I just recently bought the hybrid water coolers for them but i'm wondering if they will work in a SLI format as well as the case?  Haven't had a chance yet to mess with this, but wanted feed back to see if anyone has used these coolers in a SLI format and/or case style.  Tks in advance...

Installed Hybrid kit on a 1080 EVGA ...6181 model. Temps are lowered as expected, 27C idle low 40C gaming.  Only question I have is my 3 pin fan attached to radiator runs faster than necessary, imo thus making noise.  Not very much but is loudest in my rig.  Using EVGA precision program for fan control seems to only effects the blower.  Am I just not seeing a way to control the radiator fan while plugged into the hybrid kit?  Also if the radiator fan pin is disconnected from the hybrid kit and hooked into a separate fan controller will the pump continue to work as normal?

ryandev00
Will this fit on an EVGA 1080 Ti FE?

Hello,
 
this Hybrid kit is not designed for compatibility with the GTX 1080 Ti. It will require Modification to use this kit with a GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition and is not recommended.
 
We will have a Hybrid kit releasing soon for the 1080 Ti and Titan X (pascal) which I would recommend waiting for as it requires no modification to use with the GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition.

Russ8541
Installed Hybrid kit on a 1080 EVGA ...6181 model. Temps are lowered as expected, 27C idle low 40C gaming.  Only question I have is my 3 pin fan attached to radiator runs faster than necessary, imo thus making noise.  Not very much but is loudest in my rig.  Using EVGA precision program for fan control seems to only effects the blower.  Am I just not seeing a way to control the radiator fan while plugged into the hybrid kit?  Also if the radiator fan pin is disconnected from the hybrid kit and hooked into a separate fan controller will the pump continue to work as normal?

There is no way to control the radiator fan. Suggest you just replace it with Noctua.
 
Yes  to the 2nd question.

Anyone else who replaced the rad fan experiencing fan "revving"?
 
I installed a Noctua Industrial NF12 (the black 3 pin one) and noticed that it would rev up and down uncontrollably. Re-installed the stock one and fan speed was constant.
 
I had to jerry rig a connection to my Alienware Graphics Amp which wasnt easy because that connector is tiny. Still prefer to use the connector on the kit.