I would love to see future models of GPU's to come with a big fat heatsink and the ability to mount your own pair of 120mm fans. Would much rather have the thermal performance and sound signature from a good pair of 120mm fans. Now that doesn't mean to make proprietary 120mm fans EVGA ! lol.

nah because everything is gonna change when PCI express 5 comes

atfrico
its called customizing your fans....it can be done, but it will affect the warranty though.

How can I customize my fans into two 120mm noctua fans ?

DongleFree
I have a feeling that this might happen at some point, especially once moore’s Law dies and we get locked into 7nm~5nm processes. We might even see socketed boards and users exchanging the GPU, installing custom heat sinks and coolers!

Dunno, in the meantime I hope raijintek comes out with a new Morpheus for the 2080ti.

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atfrico
its called customizing your fans....it can be done, but it will affect the warranty though.

How can I customize my fans into two 120mm noctua fans ?

Take the shroud off of the 20Xx series cards, since it is only a few screw holding it on, remove the stock fans, zip tie the two noctua fans on GENTLY so you don’t damage anything.

Don’t tighten them down tight, or you risk bending the fins. You may have to angle the zip ties in an odd way to miss the pci bracket, but it will work until you find a better solution.

Ther 120mm fan Idea me like:

The GPU fan never did turn of. Even under 25 degree c.
So i installed a temp sensor and conencted it to the 120 mm fan.
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atfrico
its called customizing your fans....it can be done, but it will affect the warranty though.

How can I customize my fans into two 120mm noctua fans ?

Take the shroud off of the 20Xx series cards, since it is only a few screw holding it on, remove the stock fans, zip tie the two noctua fans on GENTLY so you don’t damage anything.

Don’t tighten them down tight, or you risk bending the fins. You may have to angle the zip ties in an odd way to miss the pci bracket, but it will work until you find a better solution.

Oh, I guess I would of used the word replace instead of "customize". Ya I've seen it done before on a asus 1080 that looked really clean, but it just so happened the heatsinks shape was accommodating to the 2 120mm fans via zip ties. I couldn't tell how he mounted it at first. Of course on the other spectrum it can look really ghetto. Judging from that 3d rendering of the FTW 3 2080ti - it looks like there are oddly cut out places in the heatsink. So I don't know how accommodating the new heatsinks will be to that route. Ill be getting my card tomorrow though and will probably check it out depending on how bad the stock fan problems are for me.