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DavidJ5545
 
I took apart my 2080 TI Hybrid XC last night to try a simple mod to see if controlling the pump via the motherboard would be worth the effort. I ordered a JKtech 4 pin mini to 4 pin fan adapter from amazon for 9.99.
 
The tear down is simple. You just take all the screws off the back plate and remove the front cover screws.  The shroud easily comes off and the led cable is easy to remove. I found the fan picking issue immediately because the fan wire was touching the bottom on the fan blades. So that was an easy fix to solve that problem (the fan still clicks when coming off and on, so that is another issue). I noticed that the cable from the pump and vrm fan connect to a simple power source by a split cable. This was unexpected as I assumed there would be two connectors to the board. No matter, I added the new cable and ran it out between the two pump cables.
 
My motherboard is a Gigabyte X399 Aorus Xtreme. I went into the bios and under fan control manually set the pump. I ran several noise test and temperature test by custom setting the voltage to the pump. My conclusion is like most on the forums who have done this mod, any thing about 90% has the same loud refrigerator 
 
 

Do you just unplug the pump section of the cable from the board plug it into the modded extension and then into the mobo?  The vrm fan is plug in separately to the power source?  Any chance you have any photos of this?
 
Thanks!

Both the pump and radiator fan operate from the mini 4 pin on the card. When you unplug the pump from the mini 4 pin on the card and use the adapter to plug the pump directly into a motherboard header the vrm fan will continue to operate and be controlled from the Precision software.  The vrm fan is still connected directly to the card. You can unplug the radiator fan from the lead coming from the pump harness and plug the radiator fan directly into a fan header on the motherboard to control it separately.  I'm certainly no expert but this worked for me. 

Taidaan

KingNothing300
Does anyone NOT have these issues? I just got an RTX 2080 Ti XC Hybrid and the noise is ridiculous. I can hear it with headphones on. Will this noise go away? The whole point of hybrid cards is for them to be quieter. This is quite the opposite. It sounds like a fish tank cranked up to 11.

My 2080 FTW3 Hybrid pump was loud enough to be heard from 15 feet away, and louder than my house's air handler (which shares a wall with my office). Some of the Newegg reviews didn't mention the noise, but others did and were OK with it. EVGA support told me they know the new pump is louder, but were surprised when I told them the marketing literature says the new pump is quieter. They wanted me to play the RMA game until I got a quieter pump, but I'm not willing to risk a so-far-so-good chip over a stupid pump.
 
I'm running the "4-pin mini GPU to 4-pin fan" cable mod, but had to drop my pump speed down to ~70% before the buzzing was drowned out by the fan noise. I'll live with a max of 60-degrees C on the GPU. At least its quieter now.
 
There is also the magnet trick, but I do not recommend it. Hypothetically, if I had tried such a trick, I may have heard a subjective increase in the noise level after the magnet was removed. Your hypothetical mileage may vary. Also, magnets near electricity (and hard drives, depending on your case) is potentially damaging. EVGA support specifically cited that the warranty might be void if the magnet causes any problems.
 
I'd love to see an RMA option for just the pump, instead of having to ship back my entire card multiple times.

grarrg
Hey all, I just swapped out a Geforce 1080 Ti with a closed loop cooler (Corsair H70) for a 2080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid. I paid the extra cash for a Hybrid to keep things quiet as my computer is in the living room hooked up to the TV.
 
I can't believe how loud the pump is. Even at idle it makes annoying hum/buzz punctuated with high whines. I've owned around 8 different closed loop coolers over the years and I've never had a pump this loud.
 
This is my first EVGA video card and I'm super disappointed. Has anyone had luck with a RMA or is the pump really this terrible? I don't want to be in a situation where I do an RMA it end up with the same problem but cant return the card for a refund.

lucidworld
I would have pulled the trigger on a 2080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid awhile ago if it weren't for the numerous complaints about pump noise. I tried out the FTW3 Ultra with the 3 fans/huge heatsink figuring it might be a little louder than I'm used to (980 Ti Hybrid, super cool/quiet) but still with acceptable noise and temps. However, I found the air-cooled FTW3 Ultra ran really hot and loud, like 86 °C core, 93-95 °C mem with a +100/+850 OC under load in my MasterCase 5 case with 6 140mm Noctua NF-A14 PWM fans in a 70 °F ambient room. When I set the case fans from normal to turbo setting in bios the temps fell to about 77 °C core, 85-88 °C mem load, but the overall noise from the fans was beyond what I'm comfortable with (especially considering it's not even summer yet), and I ended up RMA'ing the card.
 
Being that I really don't feel like investing the money/time/effort into doing a custom loop, my options seem like either biting the bullet and splurging on the Kingpin, or buying a used 1080 Ti Hybrid on eBay and saving $1200 while taking a 35-40% performance hit. So yeah, I'm leaning towards the latter option...lol... The annoying thing is that I recently bought an Alienware AW3418HW ultra-wide monitor, and the 1080 Ti is really good but not great at driving that resolution/refresh rate.

AHowes
New case.. time for full custom open loop cooling. Period.

Cards are getting hotter.. cpu's also getting hotter every release. Why hold off? Your gona go custom loop sooner or later.

AHowes
They are slow to respond to such a huge issue that seems to be effecting everyone.. why put up with it. The rad is too small and noisy on top. Clearly they dont want to slow the pump down cause then the temps will rise that much more.

Maybe their trying to decide what to do? Though handing everyone a free upgrade to a kingpin cooler isint on the table.. or maybe it is being looked at?

Are they just hoping to ignore and its cheaper to just keep sending out replacement cards to the ones that complain?

I would not be content with it.. reselling the card with that stock cooler would be impossible.

sym30l1c
I've been thinking of buying the hybrid kit for my FTW3 for a while, but the problems reported by so many people have stopped me from pulling the trigger.
Hopefully EVGA finally says something about this and actually fixes the issues that are being reported.

dtgill
I had to send my hybrid in for rma and decided to buy a NZXT G12 and Kraken X42 the difference was night and day my computer is quiet and my RTX 2080 FE is cool. Pump on the Kraken is running full speed.
 
The pump on the hydro began to make a grinding noise along with the high pitched whine.
 
I am going to test the new setup for noise and if it has the refrigerator sound I am going to ask for at least a partial refund, it's ridiculous to pay so much money for so little return, and EVGA knows about the problem and acts like it's normal for the pump to sound like it does.