the_Scarlet_one
Jibberish,

See if you can find a cold plate for your card on Amazon. Avoid any double sided thermal tape, it is permanent and will remove components if you remove it too quick.

BP7178,

If you bought a FTW3 Hybrid, selling the pump/radiator combo is a horrible idea. You will need them if the card ever has any sort of issue that requires RMA. If it was just the hybrid add on, it doesn’t matter, but if it was a full hybrid card, it will 100% require every stock part there is for an RMA to work.

Jiberish001
So yesterday I removed my new 2080's aio and heatsink, and installed my old nzxt kraken, and I'm really happy to be rid of the pump noise.

Yes, maybe I should RMA if it's that bad, but the time and hassle is very unappealing to me when I read so many experiences of getting replacement pumps with the same noise.

My old kraken is dead silent and cools the gpu to the exact same temps. There is a trade off though. The heatsink. I could not get the pump alone from my old kraken to fit with the card's heatsinks intact. I believe it MAY be possible IF I did some serious hardware modding of the kraken bracket, or the heatsinks themselves, but I'm not that guy. So now obviously I'm now working with air cooled temps for memory and power etc, which isn't that bad honestly. I don't foresee it being a problem really. I put some tiny heatsinks on some of the key parts, which double-sided thermal tape, and I'm not seeing anything get much above 70c.

What I am wanting to know; is there a compatible aio replacement for this card that will fit along with the heatsinks that came with it?

The heatsink mounting for the pump, and the pump itself is designed to act as partial cooling for the memory chips, and so the pump sits on a square part around the GPU, while on the gpu itself, and that square part leads to thermal pads attached to the memory chips. Because of this setup the pump's heatsink has a raised square center so that it makes contact with the GPU and that square bit. I know that square copper plate additions for aios are a thing, but it still needs to properly mount onto that square part going to the memory.

What I would really love to find, is an aio replacement that fits with the heatsinks and everything, AND which has a 240 radiator. Getting the cooler temps back onto the memory and vrms and such would be nice, but getting extra cooling for the GPU in the process would actually make it worth the trouble.

Has anyone else replaced their ftw3 ultra hybrid with suggestions or warnings or stories?

Jiberish001
Honestly I don't know what is being referred to as the "cold-plate." I don't know about the kingpin, but as for the ftw3 ultra hybrid it comes with two heatsinks on either side of the pump, and the pump sits on top of a thin metal part that is underneath a portion of those heatsinks, and touches some of the memory. Because the pump sits on that thin metal part it has to have a raise square part of it's copper heatsink to make contact with the GPU.

Jiberish001
Yeah, the ftw3 ultra hybrid uses a similar plate, but it's not quite the same. I'd take a pic but I'm not home right now.

Jiberish001

the_Scarlet_one
Jibberish,

See if you can find a cold plate for your card on Amazon. Avoid any double sided thermal tape, it is permanent and will remove components if you remove it too quick.

BP7178,

If you bought a FTW3 Hybrid, selling the pump/radiator combo is a horrible idea. You will need them if the card ever has any sort of issue that requires RMA. If it was just the hybrid add on, it doesn’t matter, but if it was a full hybrid card, it will 100% require every stock part there is for an RMA to work.

Selling the pump and/or radiator was never in my mind. Not only am I aware of possibly needing them later, but I also would not want to sell such a crappy (loud) system to anyone..