Hello forum users!
I have a question for those who installed full coverage water blocks from third-party manufacturers (ЕKWD, Bitspower, Watercool, Aquacomputer, Alphacool, Barrow or Bynski) on their 2080Ti graphics cards. What is the decrease in the temperature of the GPU was achieved with this?
I ran into this situation - I installed an Alphacool Eisblock GPX-N Plexi Light Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080Ti M01 waterblock on my 2080ti XC Ultra video card.
On the main heat removal surface of the water block there were clearly visible traces from the milling of the metal. I first encountered the fact that such a rough treatment is allowed on the main contact plate. It confused me and I asked for a comment from the manufacturer of the waterblock. From Alphacool I received the answer that such surface treatment is not a marriage and it does not affect the parameters of heat dissipation.

 I categorically did not suit such a comment, so I decided to ask the opinion of experts in this topic.
For example, in the game Battlefield 5, my working temperatures can reach above 50 degrees Celsius. I believe that the reason for this is that the contact surface of the water block is not ideally even. While I have a separate circuit for cooling the video card, isolated from the CPU. In the circuit 2 radiator 560mm + 360mm and at the same time 50 degrees Celsius?
What do you think about this?

pgnorrisYou are running about 8-12c warmer than I am using an EK block. Those mill marks do not look bad enough to cause that difference. I would remove the block and check the spread of the thermal paste and try re-seating the block.

Thank. Of course I will try to reinstall. 
But I have been using the water block installation for a long time, so my hands are already trained after many different connections.
And so on the EK, my SLI 1080Ti temperatures were much cooler.

Against the background of past success, the current result upset me very much. I have already begun to suspect if the milling marks are not to blame, then Alphacool himself may use "bad" copper, more precisely an alloy of copper at the base of the water block. 
 

bcavnaugh
And about 14°C Warmer than the EVGA Hydro Copper Water Block.

Excellent result.
Something like this I was expecting when transferring my video card to water. I am sure that EVGA Hydro Copper Water Block is the best block for our video cards. But to my great regret, they are not officially delivered to Russia for inexplicable reasons.