I get around 45C max even when it's warm in my room on my 1080 Ti FE with a Kraken X61 with a G10 bracket, and another 1080 Ti FE with a Kraken X41/G10 (80 to 82F is the warmest my room gets to, the house is set to 78F for the AC). Funny enough, the smaller X41 cooled 1080 Ti is a little cooler because the X61 sucks in air past my 8 spinners.
I do have a very large PC case with the X61 and X41 set to pull air into the case, and my CPU cooler (X72) is also set to pull air into the case. Now that I think about it, all of my fans are set to pull air in.
Other than that, I do use non-stock fans - Noiseblocker NB-eLoop B14-3 for the X61 and X41. That may lop a few C off, since I can run them at 100% and not really hear them much.
Also, if you ever do a repaste on the GPU, don't use too little paste. If the paste is non-conductive (as it should be), you can't go wrong with putting extra on. Not covering the GPU die completely can lead to corners not getting paste, increasing the overall temperature of the GPU since that portion cannot conduct heat away (no IHS like.a CPU has).
Edit: I also have the tubes that go in/out of the radiators on the bottom. That's to be sure that I don't get any air pockets in the cold plate area or get any of that annoying cavitation from air bubbles going through the pump. Having the tubes up top could lead to these issues and an increase in the temperature of the GPU die since air isn't as good as water in conducting heat.
post edited by arestavo - 2020/05/17 12:42:03