Leonardohlb
Can anyone know if it is possible to install arctic accelero III or IV on the 2080ti black?

Leonardohlb
Budget is no problem, problem is that in my country does not have these components yet.

Leonardohlb
Today I did the mod with a Hyper 212x, the result was excellent but I did not like much of the system appearance, so I came back with the original cooler, the EVGA cooler regardless of the amount of thermal grease I use it creates two pockets of air on the sides of the chip, the Hyper 212x had absolute contact in the center of the chip, the cooler of EVGA in 100% ambient temperature of 22º reaches 69º in stock, Hyper 212x reached 53º with OC, I decided to leave the original cooler for a while until deciding what I will, maybe a Kraken G12 with a rad 240mm, 360mm is enough to keep below 50º.


A curisasity is that even the board being limited I can stabilize at 2040/16800 without oscillating clock if the temperature is up to 50º, now I know why EVGA chose new coolers bigger like XC ultra and FTW3, RTX heats much more than the GTX.

vyneroon2

Cool GTX
EVGA allows the removal of the heatsink, change the TIM or thermal pads ..... it Does Not Void your warranty ... (unlike other brands)

Kind of a necro buuutt

I just wanted to say, so obviously EVGA cards are not great with gddr6x.  Better than some companies like Gigabyte and MSI though.  However with the 6x cooling issues changing thermal pads is common practice on 3080's and above for most companies.  EVGA uses pretty bad thermal pads and someone I know who also has verifiable proof from CS got denied an RMA for changing thermal pads.  I don't know why he would even say he changed them in his request, but I guess he was nervous about being denied for it; even though every company I've dealt with does not care at all and generally I'll do a better job and 100% of the time I will use higher quality pads.  So anyways they denied him for this as he feared and the solution they gave to him was to buy their midlow quality pads from their store and install those in order to process his RMA.  So I would be cautious I guess.  EVGA is generally the best in terms of warranty but their terms have gotten very stringent as of late and much less customer friendly on paper.  I haven't had any issues in anyway with EVGA outside of receiving dead or physically damaged cards from their b-stock line up, but I thought I would throw that out there.  I believe it goes against right to repair laws and potentially this helps shed light on this situation so doesn't happen to others since they are just getting scammed out of money if they have to buy the stock thermal pads just to RMA their card.
 
Anyone who is competent knows changing your pads has no negative impact unless done poorly (bad pads/wrong size/forgetting to put some on) or you physically damage the card in doing so.  So I just find being denied for this a bit weird when it is done to repair the card for a design flaw.  It's like how a brand new car has it's engine blown in its first 500 miles, and because you changed to rims (that meet all the factory specifications) you get denied a warranty claim.  It's a random example not based on reality but it's something I'd expect from a car manufacturer as they'll look for any excuse they can to avoid expensive warranty claims.  Luckily they have to prove how the rims caused the issue which they can't so you win the court case or just win with higher ups within the car manufacturer.  Which I think they would have to do this with the thermal pads in order to deny the claim in this instance..  Who knows but apparently people have been denied warranty claims for changing pads.