roberty35
I prefer air-cooling; better and more safer

WC is perfectly safe and is better then anything you can do on air

Definitely not better, and liquid is only "unsafe" if you do things incorrectly.  I just finished putting together my first full custom loop that cools both the CPU & GPU ever, and it was pretty easy overall, just took some patience & double checking to make sure the fittings were tight to avoid leaks (which I had none, first try on a loop this big too).  Compression fittings with soft tubing is very easy and very safe. 

I (as close as possible) duplicated 0.937 volts but set clocks at 2055 clocks dropped to 2025 some minutes in. ran 15 minutes total, I'm at two twins confer, the bar in first town balcony.
 
Tomb raider 4k, I ran no DLSS or raytracing, Put what I could on ultra.
 
My block came with both sides (4) already capped. so I just left it and ran my IN and OUT from top ports.
I got maybe substandard parts, cause they were in stock at my Microcenter, and I did not feel like ordering online. ( I was in a hurry I guess)
 
 
Corsair HydroX XD3 Pump/Res combo
Bitspower leviathan XF 360
EK Vardar fans I had laying around.
One bitspower temp sensor Used as my out of block temp.
One older I think XSPC? temp sensor used as my entering block temp from radiator.
 
GPU only in loop.
 
I used all stock pads that came with kit, except I used some kryonaut I had for GPU core.
 
RES/Pump>rad>block>back to RES/Pump.
 
room temp 22C . At 15 mins in I had 27C leaving radiator. And 28C Leaving block, Only about 1C increase? Does not seem right.
 
GPU core hit just about 40C
 
I will say My memory temps seem MUCH better with the block
 
It looks like I had 11-12C delta then.
 
I was NOT able to gain anything on the core, and my memory already ran 1500 I do not want to load PX1 to try higher.
 
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Rcrist90
Does anyone here have a 3080Ti FTW?? I'm looking for a waterblock for it and I think that the EK 3090 evga waterblock will fit just fine. Has anyone tried this? Obvi I'd prefer a hydrocopper, but who knows when I'll get my Q message. Hell, I've been waiting like what... 9 months? for my 3080 Q message. Luckily I got in pretty early for the hydrocopper Kingpin with the Elite program. But yea, can anyone help me with this waterblock 3080ti ftw issue? I want to know exactly how well it fits and if the instructions correspond the same for either card. 

Why do you need the 3090 block when you can get the 3080 FTW block? You can double check with EK but as I understand it, blocks for the 3080 models fit the same models on the Ti.

I've gone down the custom loop rabbit hole and now I'm just going for AIO's and hybrid gpu's to save the headache in maintaining a loop.

03fan
I've gone down the custom loop rabbit hole and now I'm just going for AIO's and hybrid gpu's to save the headache in maintaining a loop.

Only potential headache is when you have to swap out parts. Even with coolant you just flush it periodically and refill. You can go distilled water for years and have to do nothing except top up assuming you stay with same parts.

Custom loop is the best and it’s fun putting it together. Try it out.

Looks like the optimus Kingpin block is finally ready. Gonna be a monster. https://optimuspc.com/pro...m_source=shopify_email