JonnyVee

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Some EVGA cards have been coming with a very dried style thermal paste and some not. I wouldn't guarantee a big drop, but I can say I had the crusty dried up TIM from a card with a SN of 2014. The 2012 cards might have better thermal paste, not sure. 
 
But again, just saying this isn't guaranteed but there's also no way of knowing if you got a card with **** thermal paste or not. 
 
That being said, I used grizzly on my hybrid.

What about the thermal putty? I'd like to re-paste but I'm hesitant because of the putty. 

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Andrew_WOT

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Edit: the best configuration is push-pull > Push > Pull
I would put the fans in a push configuration where they push the air through the radiator.

Always use pull in all my builds, CPU or GPU AIO.
https://youtu.be/UyC3lZ5WFMk

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That video has no compelling reasons to put your setup in pull unless if you have a cat or something. 

Off topic, wanted to ask your thoughts about 120 ML fans for pull set ups?  Better than the stock rad EVGA fan or an LL fan?

You didn't ask me, but I would take the ML over the LL any day of the week.  

I ordered a pair of MLs off amazon.  I also ended up getting bored and it was eating away at me knowing this card should be in the high 40s so I disassembled the front panel on the 280x case and removed the glass.  Playing cyberpunk with digital foundry settings I didn't break 49C.  Pretty happy about that.  I went from a 12055 port royal score to like 12300.

Low 50s is more realistic at 100% GPU usage.

I'm running into an interesting problem. After my run it just says I have a Generic VGA. It sees the card before the run starts as a 3080, even after the run in the summary it sees it but yet afterwards when I check the compare page it's like nope we don't know that card. It still sees it's an EVGA though in the summary of this. My GPU-Z sees my card, a 3080 XC3 Ultra Hybrid. This is a fresh windows install and everything, bios, drivers and firmware all up to date.
 
https://www.3dmark.com/pr/642492
 
EDIT*  run isn't showing for whatever reason.  

Sounds like a 3dmark issue, I'd email them.

KingEngineRevUp
 
The thermal putty on the VRMs is just that, it's putty, you can roll it up like play do, spready it evenly on the VRM chips and them smush the heatsink onto it to spread it. It's reusable, just wear gloves of course to avoid contamination. 
 
The thing that you don't want to do is trying to reuse it as is because it has already been compressed and might not make good contact when you reinstall the heatsink. You want to make sure that you reform it on top of the memory to be kind of thick and that the heatsink smushes and spreads it onto the memory. 
 
The hottest part of the memory is the center anyways and there is plenty of putty since they just have a whole entire strip of it. You can make little balls and apply them per a chip and you would still have some left over. 

gian1983
Anyone running cyberpunk able to do 60 fps on high details ?
 

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coldrain85
I wonder how far off the nanotube technology is for liquid cooling. Has anyone been keeping up on that development? We will be laughing at these massive, 7 pound GPU's in the not too distant future when chips are internally cooled. Imagine how much smaller and more powerful everything will get.
 
Back to reality though.... I'm trying to decide between a 3080 or a 3090HC. I could afford either, but my money isn't unlimited so I don't want to spend 2x as much if all I'm getting is a 10% increase in performance and increase wattage. Does the extra RAM really matter that much? Will I get more years out of a 3090? I plan to use this card for at least the next 3 years.

Why don't you just get a 3080 for half the price and minus 5-10% performance and with that money you saved, spend it on a 4080 which will destroy the 3090? IMO, the 3090 makes absolutely no sense unless if you're doing something where you need that VRAM. 

TacticalBeard
Now my 3090 hybrid XC3 just got delivered and I can’t decide If I should return it and get the FTW3 version. Anyone seeing noticeably better performance with the extra 8pin on the FTW model vs the XC3?

Bernard17
on the hybrid cards, can afterburner be used instead of X1?

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