I already have a moodded corsair 240 rad on mine. And I keep backplate and memory heat sink. Does this kit let you keep both plates?

Anyone gotten eta updates for the ftw3 kits yet.

Yep i been hoping for 3 weeks now. Maybe I'll just wait for the kingpin hybrid.

Hmm. Still not sure about the kit though. After going through many scenarios of 99% gpu usage on a FTW3 for hours, temps are looking nice and has little to no sound compared to hybrid pump etc. Makes you think twice. no rush.

d.burnette

Avenger411
Hmm. Still not sure about the kit though. After going through many scenarios of 99% gpu usage on a FTW3 for hours, temps are looking nice and has little to no sound compared to hybrid pump etc. Makes you think twice. no rush.

Yeah same here, have been gaming with my 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra for a few weeks now, don't think I have seen my GPU temp get above 65c yet.

I hear you...I just want to put my build together and be done.  I don't want to pop the card out and add the kit later, i'd rather do the install all at once.  It sounds like you guys are probably going to skip out on the hybrid now lol

Here’s the finished project
Parts - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/V33bfH

Got the hybrid kit installed on my 2080 ti fe. My temp before was 73c with an overclock of 2070/1000. Now I’m running 54c max.

goutan
Dude that is the most packed case ever. Yet, I feel like the airflow is probably pretty efficient - what do your temps look like?

Yes it is literally full! But temps are amazingly good. The air flow of this case is perfect. Even with the partial blockage of the front 120 fan. I’m not too happy with the 9900k performance. I’m sure it’s the z370-I board. Not a very good overclocker. It’s only running with a few cores at 5 and the rest at 4.8 using adaptive voltage of 1.3. Gets up to 78 c under load.

Thinking I am probably going to pass on the kit now, my air cooled temps are not bad at all.

Now that i've tried and tried to get things working with EVGA Precision X1 i'm 100% sure i'm going to get a Hybrid kit. Overall, the software isn't good at all. The OSD works in like 10% of the games when you compare it to Afterburner and you're very limited in terms of versatility (information placement and OSD modifications). I'm sad about this. And the fact is that Afterburner ONLY controls 1 fan out of 3 (FTW3 cards). The fan it controls is the one that is the closest to the back of the case which doesn't help at all. So if you want a good OSD with complete fan curve support you're stuck trying to mix PX1 and Afterburner. What that does is that one program takes over the other and vice versa. Unless i'm missing something here, all of this is garbage. Now on to the solution. Once you install the Hybrid kit, you get only 1 fan (which Afterburner will most likely be able to control. Not 100% sure, will have to test it out) and THEN you plug your RAD fans (Push/Pull) on to the motherboard (as i've always done) so THAT WAY you can have Afterburner running as usual with custom fan curves and versatility and ADD TO THAT the fact that the OSD will work as usual since it's not EVGA's poor implementation as of now. I know this is not the place to post this kind of information but for ME that is a fact that MAKES ME want to get a Hybrid kit because PX1's overall usage is just not there for me, not at all.
 
Maybe this will help you make a decision regarding the Hybrid kit. I for one as for yesterday was telling myself, meh card doesn't go over 60-65c why would i get a Hybrid ? Well once i started trying to get Afterburner's OSD and a Custom fan curve running together it hasn't been smooth at all. 

Clarification, for those that don't care about the OSD (EVGA or Afterburner), don't mind all of this! Custom fan curves on PX1 are working good, it's only when you try to get Afterburner's OSD to work in "tandem" with PX1 that's where the sht hit the fan. 
 
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This is so disappointing every launch EVGA takes forever to get Hybrid cards available. I'm getting real close to just getting an MSI Sea Hawk X. Same thing happened with the 1080 launch, took forever and I ended up getting the Gigabyte Waterforce. I'm really disappointed with the tweet regarding the actual Hybrid cards "coming later". I was really hoping to get an FTW3 Hybrid this time but these delays are getting ridiculous.

Avenger411
Now that i've tried and tried to get things working with EVGA Precision X1 i'm 100% sure i'm going to get a Hybrid kit. Overall, the software isn't good at all. The OSD works in like 10% of the games when you compare it to Afterburner and you're very limited in terms of versatility (information placement and OSD modifications). I'm sad about this. And the fact is that Afterburner ONLY controls 1 fan out of 3 (FTW3 cards). The fan it controls is the one that is the closest to the back of the case which doesn't help at all. So if you want a good OSD with complete fan curve support you're stuck trying to mix PX1 and Afterburner. What that does is that one program takes over the other and vice versa. Unless i'm missing something here, all of this is garbage. Now on to the solution. Once you install the Hybrid kit, you get only 1 fan (which Afterburner will most likely be able to control. Not 100% sure, will have to test it out) and THEN you plug your RAD fans (Push/Pull) on to the motherboard (as i've always done) so THAT WAY you can have Afterburner running as usual with custom fan curves and versatility and ADD TO THAT the fact that the OSD will work as usual since it's not EVGA's poor implementation as of now. I know this is not the place to post this kind of information but for ME that is a fact that MAKES ME want to get a Hybrid kit because PX1's overall usage is just not there for me, not at all.
 
Maybe this will help you make a decision regarding the Hybrid kit. I for one as for yesterday was telling myself, meh card doesn't go over 60-65c why would i get a Hybrid ? Well once i started trying to get Afterburner's OSD and a Custom fan curve running together it hasn't been smooth at all. 

Clarification, for those that don't care about the OSD (EVGA or Afterburner), don't mind all of this! Custom fan curves on PX1 are working good, it's only when you try to get Afterburner's OSD to work in "tandem" with PX1 that's where the sht hit the fan. 
 
Edit typos.
 

I'm thinking I'm going to get a kit too.  My card is still in the boxz like the rest of my other parts...but I just want it for peace of mind.  Sucks that you haven't had much luck getting the fan straight, hopefully the kit brings some stability.
 

Avenger411
FTW3 Hybrid kits, can we get an ETA ? I’ve read “this week” sonewhere in the forums but a date would be great.

 
Last week on the 12 hour live stream he said something like..this month,  in two weeks...two weeks and this month is over.  So who knows.  I'm trying to stay hopeful.  I wanted one so I could put my build together during Xmas break, but that's not looking like it will be possible.

Avenger411
@Topless_Stang
 
Well you could always install it without the kit for the time being if you're willing to install a hybrid kit by yourself i figure that installing and removing the gpu from the motherboard is quite easy for you. The ONLY WAY i found how to make the fans work with both programs (this could benefit others) is that the FTW3 (2080/2080ti) has three fans front, mid, back. EVGA Precision X1 controls the 3 fans flawlessly. Afterburner only controls the back fan. So what i did is that in my PX1 fan profile (which is saved on hardware apparently so you don't have to leave the program running) i'm only controling the mid and front fan so that when i leave Afterburner running (because rivatuner is CLEARLY better than EVGA's OSD and that's why i want Afterburner) i recreate the same fan profile (PX1 mid,front) for the back fan. This way my three fans are all running at the same rpm/% and i get to keep rivatuner. Also, add to that a fellow FTW3 (1080ti) owner from another thread that was having the same issue with the OSD/Fan profiles when mixing PX1/AB found that when getting the Hybrid kit his gpu (1080ti ftw3) didn't fix his problem because AB wasn't recognizing the Hybrid's fan so he probably ended up doing the same thing as i'm doing even though he only has 1 fan (hybrid kit for the 1080ti ftw3) compared to his stock 3fans. There's another thing to think about when getting the hybrid kit. I have a Rampage V board from Asus and 3x m2. 1 of the m2 is located right behind the GPU so with the FTW3 being this big, the cooler is radiating heat straight onto my OS m2 which is alright since it's not used to much but still for someone who has that m2 slot for gaming or heavy file transfer etc the hybrid kit would fix that problem.
 
Anyways. There's really no point for me to detail all of this here but if it can help someone, good :)

Thanks for the info.  It's not that I don't feel comfortable adding the Hybrid kit later, I just wanted to do my install all at once...properly plan it & get some good cable management going.  What kinda over clock are you getting?  How much better did MSI do for you & your chip?

Avenger411
I see i understand you. Well hard to say because system's been crashing for the past 2 days. I'm about to get some help about that right now, my event viewer is full of nvlddmkm errors with many different descriptions that i can't make anything out of it myself. MSI is better only because of the OSD besides that PX1 can do everything just as good but the program itself (PX1) feels not finished and less stable.

That sucks...hopefully u can get it sorted out.  So the overclock was the same, you just prefer the look of Afterburner?  What kind of an overclock dod you get with your chip?


 

Avenger411
Well it’s a 2080 so not a Ti but still i’ve never overclocked it, it’s boosting itself up to 1980/2010mhz but i get massive system crash so it’s dumb.. Trying to troubleshoot it and if all fails i’ll rma or just ask a refund and don’t know what i’ll do.

New build or did you add the card to an existing build?  Judging from the file name you mentioned I i would assume its a driver file issue, hope it's not your card.  I thought the 2080 kits already got released?