I feel compelled to chime in since I just swapped out a 2080 XC Ultra for a 2080 FTW3 Hybrid yesterday.
When I initially installed my Hybrid card I swapped the supplied 120mm fan with one of my ThermalTake Pure Plus 12 RGB radiator fans. When I did this I installed the fan to pull air in from the back with the top fan as exhaust and the front 2x140mm radiator fans pulling in from the front. As you can imagine, this was a mistake. I was getting temps as high as 74 Celsius on the card while under load, which was worse than the 70 Celsius I was getting with the XC Ultra with dual fans. Honestly, at first I thought my pump was broken.
After doing a little reading online I flipped my GPU radiator fan to push air through the radiator and out of the back. This seemingly small change dropped my max GPU temps down to around 64 Celsius under load. But then I realized that I might just have enough room to squeeze another ThermalTake 120mm fan in to make it a push/pull configuration, pulling air through the rad and out of the back. I was happy to discover that I was able to make this setup fit (just barely). And I'm even happier to report that my max temps, even in BF5 on "Ultra settings", never exceed 58 Celsius while overclocked +110 core clock and +800 memory. I specifically mention BF5 because that's the game that drove my max GPU temps to 74 Celsius with my initial Hybrid GPU setup with the fan pulling air in from the back.
So definitely make sure that if you are mounting your radiator in the back that the fan is oriented to push or pull air through the radiator and out of the case. And if you can fit a push/pull configuration, DEFINITELY do that as it does make a difference (6 Celsius, in my case).
Here's a pic of my final configuration in an NZXT h500 case, for reference:
post edited by sn0warmy - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:42 AM