The instructions that come with these blocks is ridiculous, you need a magnifying glass to read and then the instructions just as well not be there anyway. They have plenty of screws and nylon washer for the installation and it can be done with the backplate put back on or not either way. I installed the thermal pads in the following positions marked in yellow on the pcb first and then installed the block and removed it to make sure what kind of contact i had, when i removed the block it looked like a good squeeze out just needed a little more thermal paste and all but 2 of the thermal pads i put on the pcb were now on the block itself so almost everything made contact. The 2 that didn't seem to make contact are the 2 littlest pads i put on the pcb that have the little yellow dot on them. However the so called instructions didn't show to put a pad in those positions anyway, i just did because thats where 2 small pads are when installing the hydro copper block. 

You can use the original backplate on this block as well, the following shows screw placement,  the blue circles will be spring screws, red circles will be no screws, green circles will be straight screw into threaded standoff , and the yellow circles will be optional screws where a nut is required on them. As far as using the EVGA LN2 OLEd screen, thats going to require some more grinding, notching, or drilling to make one of those fit, have not decided how i'm going to go about it yet.  Going SLI/Nvlink will also require using the bykski vga bridge to connect your cards together without modifications. If you don't use the bykski vga bridge it looks like you will have to grind either the left side of the block port connection head down or grind your nvlink bridge down or a little of both to make it work. 

nova496
Thanks sparetimepc, question can you take a side picture of the block ebay has a KPE waterblock but it went to 800 real quick. And I cant see spending 800 on a block

I seen that block this morning and it was $410 thats insane its at $800 now. They not gonna get no $800 worth of performance out of that. 

Yeah I bid on it and had max bid of 790 just because I wanted it. And I think he was running it up.

AHowes
Haha.. at that price I might wana list mine and buy one of these!

Right! I was pissed I'd pay max 500 for one but if that guy really wants it, its his

The only thing that gives me pause on this newer block is the plexy glass threads for the barbs. Those always chip when you remove the barbs. So in my mind this would be a one time mount. No resale.

It's hard not to overtighten the barbs that doing so will chip the threads thet may cause of leak.

AHowes
The only thing that gives me pause on this newer block is the plexy glass threads for the barbs. Those always chip when you remove the barbs. So in my mind this would be a one time mount. No resale.

It's hard not to overtighten the barbs that doing so will chip the threads thet may cause of leak.

 
I have never had an issue with the plexi chipping from the hose ports after several uses.  The only block i ever bought with chipped/broken plexi was on the hydro copper for the kingpin, as did many people the dreaded oled screen chip !!!   UGHHHHHH

AHowes
I'd had it happen on many ek blocks in the past. Wont buy clear threads anymore cause of it if I can help it.

Ok so the one from Amazon dont have lighting and the one on ebay does?

EKWB is what i have always used before as well, you need to quit over tightening them mr muscle.   The one from amazon has the 5V RBW strip on it, and i think the one from ebay does as well but the one on ebay had other lighting options as well.   https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bykski-N-EV2080TIKP-X-GPU-Block-for-EVGA-RTX2080Ti-KINGPIN/113984112395?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Thanks man! I ordered a oled ln2 kit going to drill the hole out, and modify it enough to make it work and look clean. Thanks for the install tips and tricks

Here is photo of the bykski block at 20C liquid temp, same as room temp. Also all lit up.  

That looks nice

nova496
Damn that is nice upgrade was going to ask what room temp was but see 20C thats incredible. How big of radiators you have in your pc and is it separate loop from cpu? 
 
Also did it come with the plugs? asking because I ordered one already before i saw your post. 
 
And since we talked a bit in the kpe thread about the ln2 kit, do you think it will fit in between the block and the acrylic? I have a idea about drilling out the end of the ln2 bracket and milling it down to fit in between the block and card. 

Yes it came with 2 plugs, GPU and CPU are different loops, no rads in GPU loop using a chiller that was set at 20c. The ln2 bracket is quite a bit wider then available space to mount to on the block so it will hang past the end of the card, where the ln2 oled plugs in to the PCB is directly under the block and there is not room for it to even plug in until the block is modified. I had to make the notch about half way through the block (see photos) to make enough clearance for the oled screen cable to plug in.  As far as the ln2 kit fitting between the block and acrylic i assume you meant between the block and the pcb, yes there is room but only one of the ln2 bracket mounts will go under it the other will stick out past the end of the card. All i have left to do is mount the OLED screen now. 

Nice work Spare! 
 
So is it fair to say the KP block was out of spec?

Mcwrah
Nice "mod" lol with the  OLED mount... I wish I could buy the OLED separate in EU like you can in US... would totes do the same and use it etc. but thats aint happening sadly :/.

GTX, if you mean this bykski KP block, I wouldn't say its out of spec since everyone that got this block has to dremel a place for the mini DP ports (if you don't want PCB flex) so its probably just bad design lol but seems to work much better than original WB for people that use it + its "easily" available for a pretty cheap price with the downside of having to mod it a bit.
 
I had to do it, a guy who got it as one of the first has the same issue, same for a guy that put a review on aliexpress had to do it, sparetime here and a couple of others. Thats why I think its not out of spec but just not the best design and they overlooked that part.

Sorry, I was referencing the EVGA KP block that some had issues with.  Maybe some that slipped through QC.

Using a hydro copper on my kingpin I've currently have GPU temp of 22c with water temp of 19c and room temp at 20c. Sure that digital thermometer is off and it's really 19c room temp but whatever.

Be interesting to see those load temps.