Hey all,
I am here to report back on my
Titan X Pascal install of the EVGA 1080 TI SC Hybrid cooler.
TLDR: Temps dropped over 40C, install was not bad (thanks to this awesome community and youtube) but was not easy either.
About the install: The included screws on the VRM cooler plate are absolutely the wrong screws! They will allow the VRM cooler to sag and most likely cause all the fan issues as Scarlet and others mentioned. Now one option for solving this is using nylon washer as Scarlet recommend. This however warps the back plate. The next option is to dremel the cooler nubs as recommend by Zealotkiller. I went a different rout, i used my own tiny screws(M2X4) that had no spacer built in and that worked perfect. The only down side is the backplate is now missing 3 screws(because my M2X4 are not standoffs) which could put a bit less contact on the one component cooled by the backplate. I did however add a bit more of the fiber thermal pad to that piece to give it some extra height and that seemed to work well, the component is now fulled covered by thermal pad material and has pressure to press it into the backplate. Lastly, there have been rumors of using the existing screws that the stock cooler used, this will not work. The screws are almost all different sizes. I had no issues with screws stripping or breaking I was very careful though and watched any strain that could be placed on the screws from pieces not fitting together perfect. I also used a 4mm socket as recommend and had a nice small #00 screw driver for the tiny screws.
I still need to run my myriad of benchmarks but for now I have some prelim data.
Superpositon running 1080p extreme:
Air cooled: 84C max temp, 5614
Water cooled Hybrid: 42C max temp, 59xx.
So temps dropped over 40C and performance went up about 5.5%.
I will run a lot more tests as well as look at the std deviation of the frequency over each bench run and report back once finished.
Regards,
Jonathan
post edited by Mathieas - 2017/10/07 09:32:40