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Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:14 PM
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Perhaps someone from EVGA could tell me if the 1080 hybrid has the same length water tubing and distance to radiator as the 980 hybrid, then I could search around and see if anyone installed one in my type of case - a Corsair Carbide Air 540 case, with fan mounted at the front?
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Re: 1080 hybrid distance to radiator
Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:30 PM
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edit: if it's the same length as the 980 hybrid, then it should fit - found a couple of photos on google with the 980 hybrid... although bit of a tight squeeze between card edge and case window with the way the tubes stick straight out from the card like a pair of dogs balls... wonder if EVGA would consider using right angled connections there similar to what Corsair use on their closed CPU loops.
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Re: 1080 hybrid distance to radiator
Friday, August 19, 2016 0:26 PM
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☄ Helpfulby Nereus Friday, August 19, 2016 2:40 PM
Nereus I have the same type of case as you. I'm wondering the same, because I will be putting a radiator/fans in the front as well. I do have 240 rad on the top, albeit it's an AIO for the CPU. The pic below should give us a general idea of what we're looking. The card below is not a 1080, so I would put another 2 inches or so on there. It would be very tight squeeze, then again, the screenshot below also shows fans on the front and back of the radiator below. Do you happen to have a rad currently to where you can put it on the front and give it a shot to see if it fits or not? I'd just do that, or get the measurements and measure it. 
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Re: 1080 hybrid distance to radiator
Friday, August 19, 2016 0:46 PM
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Here's a shot of my rig when I had a couple of 980 SC cards and the X79 Dark (now have a Z97 Classy + 980Ti, but otherwise similar), looks to be room.. I also have a AIO on top ;) I really like this case. 
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Re: 1080 hybrid distance to radiator
Friday, August 19, 2016 1:16 AM
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☄ Helpfulby Nereus Friday, August 19, 2016 2:39 PM
You have a nice setup. Really nice. The thing about the Carbide air, is just that, it's for air cooled systems. You could try and get thinner fans on the front for the radiator, also try getting a thinner radiator with that too, and it should fit in there. I see one problem and that is your top fan will be hitting the top rad, so you will need to stick with a 240 on the middle and bottom fan. The front of the case can fit with either 3 120 fans (like you have now) or 2 140 fans. Just taking the power plugs to your GPUS and slide them on top of the cards so they won't hit the fans. Should work.
If you're up to "modding the case", you could mount a rad in the back of the case where all the wires and the PSU are hidden", and mount that on top on that side. Do you get what I'm saying? Like I said the Carbide 540 is supposed to be an air-cooled case and is to create a high pressure when it's sealed. So, watercooling will be tricky, but it's completely doable
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Re: 1080 hybrid distance to radiator
Friday, August 19, 2016 1:59 AM
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☄ Helpfulby Nereus Friday, August 19, 2016 2:39 PM
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Re: 1080 hybrid distance to radiator
Friday, August 19, 2016 2:04 AM
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☄ Helpfulby Nereus Friday, August 19, 2016 2:39 PM
I've been doing some research on this case. I was gonna use this case for watercooling. Came to an end result that I can fit a 45mm radiator in front but will require the fans to be mounted on the outside. It does fit but you lose out on the dust filter.
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Re: 1080 hybrid distance to radiator
Friday, August 19, 2016 2:07 AM
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☄ Helpfulby Nereus Friday, August 19, 2016 2:40 PM
I have Hybrids for 980Ti, Titan Xm & 1080 and the total hose length is the same for all. ~16" total hose length or ~15" from the shroud edge to the radiator.
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Re: 1080 hybrid distance to radiator
Friday, August 19, 2016 2:38 PM
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Nice, thanks for all the comments - appears the hose length wont be an issue, but I may have stick to single GPU not SLI.. although the 1080 series has so much power I don't really need to go SLI. stalinx20
You have a nice setup. Really nice. The thing about the Carbide air, is just that, it's for air cooled systems. You could try and get thinner fans on the front for the radiator, also try getting a thinner radiator with that too, and it should fit in there. I see one problem and that is your top fan will be hitting the top rad, so you will need to stick with a 240 on the middle and bottom fan. The front of the case can fit with either 3 120 fans (like you have now) or 2 140 fans. Just taking the power plugs to your GPUS and slide them on top of the cards so they won't hit the fans. Should work.
If you're up to "modding the case", you could mount a rad in the back of the case where all the wires and the PSU are hidden", and mount that on top on that side. Do you get what I'm saying? Like I said the Carbide 540 is supposed to be an air-cooled case and is to create a high pressure when it's sealed. So, watercooling will be tricky, but it's completely doable
I did a little bit of modding getting rid of the drive mounts at the bottom of the case - they just looked ugly imho - and made a carbon fiber covered shelf over it instead. If I stick with a single hybrid card then I shouldn't have any problems at all keeping it inside the case without any further modding, based on the comments on this thread (thanks). Because I have the case sitting inside a kind of cupboard in my desk with exhaust directed only out the back, I am a little limited in how I can position things - that's the reason I won't be going with ACX either, as for my situation it would cause too much heat build up inside the case, so it's either blower style or the hybrid. If I knew there was a 1080Ti blower style coming out at some stage, I'd wait for that for sure, but there seems to be a lot of doubt whether there will be a Ti release at all. Ok thanks again everyone. :)
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