Greetings,
My GTX 1080 Ti just failed (getting no video signal in any of the PCIe slots on multiple motherboards, different cables and inputs, etc) and I was looking to have it repaired under warranty. It's one of the older FTW3 Hybrid models. The issue is, I replaced the stock fan on the radiator with a Noctua 3000RPM fan a while ago, and I can no longer locate the original 120mm fan that was included with the radiator. So I have two questions.
1. With the fan being swapped out to a Noctua fan, would this prevent EVGA from repairing the card under warranty?
2. If I purchased a new 120mm EVGA fan and attached it to the radiator, would it then allow the card to be repaired under warranty? Or do I require the original fan that shipped with radiator?
I had swapped the fan out a while back as the card was running really hot but that turned out to be the thermal paste pumping out. Had I known the card would fail just a couple months afterwards, I probably wouldn't have gone through the trouble of replacing the fan and taking the entire GPU apart in the first place. Either way, I would appreciate some insight on this. In the meantime, I'll continue to look for the original fan until I have a definitive answer on the subject.