swinemulefoot

andressergio

swinemulefoot

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still deciding if the hbrid kit is worth it 

I installed the Hybrid about two weeks ago on my FTW3 Ultra with Thermal grizzly, i think its a great upgrade, all around its 20c cooler for me vs the the stock fan setup. 

What's your ambient temp?
Every Hybrid Kit I see shows worse temps than my actual Air Stock Card...I use benchtable maybe that's why I have better temps, let's see when mine arrives. 
 
Cheers, Sergio!

I live in Northern CA, its around 65*f in my gaming room , while gaming my card barely hits 50*c with fans set @ 55%, Its worth the money, the stock cooler was 70*c all day

I'll second this, before I had to get a serious undervolt to get below 65 on air, but at stock hit 75+.  With the Hybrid kit on my 3080 I am hitting 55 stock in a room that is typically 25-27C depending on time of day (even in winter, it gets hot here in Texas...)

Hi all,
 
New user here :) Just wanted to share my results using 520W bios. For me it worked perfectly fine, used it on Palit Gamerock OC 3090 ( sorry guys  @ EVGA - your cards are impossible to buy at country I live in :).  So far 3090 seems to be working great, much more stable in gaming when OC'd then with original Palit bios, 14625 at port royale on stock cooling in pair with 10600K  
 
Best,
V-L-D
 

swinemulefoot
I live in Northern CA, its around 65*f in my gaming room , while gaming my card barely hits 50*c with fans set @ 55%, Its worth the money, the stock cooler was 70*c all day

Thanks!
I see that it also depends on "how" it's installed, saw some people with problems to remove the thermal paste from the card, I see Hybrid Kits with the Thermalpads not in place, some others tightening not the correct way, etc, etc. Would be nice to try it with the coldplate over the GDDR6X and the AIO and leave the cover and instead put one fan on each side to see how it behaves. My KINGPIN RTX 2080TI has a similar Hybrid Kit but inside it's full of copper heatsinks.
 
Cheers!
 

schmak01
I'll second this, before I had to get a serious undervolt to get below 65 on air, but at stock hit 75+.  With the Hybrid kit on my 3080 I am hitting 55 stock in a room that is typically 25-27C depending on time of day (even in winter, it gets hot here in Texas...)

You installed it like the guy on this video? https://youtu.be/y2XeFciC8Ig

I flashed the xc3 ultra bios.
With afterburner 4.6.3 b2 i have : +150 on core and +500 on memory.
Port royal score 14412
cpu: 3960x 4.2/4.5ghz +
 
Power reading is wrong of course.
Fans at 100%duty, rotate at 3300 rpm but sometimes they go for few seconds at 3100.
 
Temps are higher: 72/73 after 5 minutes of furmark.
 
I did a furmark test with +200 on core and it crashed after few seconds. On the xoc beta bios +100 was stable. I need to see if now +150 is stable. Otherwise, I there isn't any real gain.
 
I will put the hybrid kit later the next month.
 
Let me know what you think. We need a good bios and also someone to test the watt absorbtion.

xgiovio
I flashed the xc3 ultra bios.
With afterburner 4.6.3 b2 i have : +150 on core and +500 on memory.
Port royal score 14412
cpu: 3960x 4.2/4.5ghz +
 
Power reading is wrong of course.
Fans at 100%duty, rotate at 3300 rpm but sometimes they go for few seconds at 3100.
 
Temps are higher: 72/73 after 5 minutes of furmark.
 
I did a furmark test with +200 on core and it crashed after few seconds. On the xoc beta bios +100 was stable. I need to see if now +150 is stable. Otherwise, I there isn't any real gain.
 
I will put the hybrid kit later the next month.
 
Let me know what you think. We need a good bios and also someone to test the watt absorbtion.

Offsets won't be the same - looking at the actual before and after GPU frequency attained in benchmarks and games is what changes, as per my original description/instructions. E.g. - before it was 1950 in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K ultra RT preset and now it is 2100 MHz.

As also stated in the original post, this will only help those FTW3 cards that are severely power limited. Those cards that can draw close to the 500W limit, consistently, on the 500W XOC VBIOS won't see much, if any, gain.

For wattages, the best I can offer (as I've already posted) is with folding. I've seen up to ~490W. This is with 0 CPU usage. Prior, I'd see at most ~430W. I can't offer game power draw because of the increased CPU usage and power draw that would throw the readings way off.

And finally, don't use furmark. It's limited at the driver level, so just use a new game or benchmark for your testing.

Regarding the Hybrid kit, seems like a really bad design if it can't do better than 60C.  If noise is important to you, then yeah, maybe go that route. But my stock card runs around 68C with the XC3 BIOS.  Water blocks are coming soon, I would go that route if you have the gear for it.  Or if you want to have a custom loop, although, be prepared to spend a pile of money to get everything all at once.

andressergio

schmak01
I'll second this, before I had to get a serious undervolt to get below 65 on air, but at stock hit 75+.  With the Hybrid kit on my 3080 I am hitting 55 stock in a room that is typically 25-27C depending on time of day (even in winter, it gets hot here in Texas...)

You installed it like the guy on this video? 

I installed the Hybrid Kit and I'm hitting 30 on idle. I reused the cross-brace with the stock gpu screws. I also used Artic MX4 instead of the pre-applied thermal paste on the block. I swapped out the fans for Noctua chromax and offloaded them onto the MOBO instead. Cleaning off the old thermals was a pain, but got it done with 90% Iso Alc with a microfiber towel and brush. Compress air to dry it all up. 
 

crisgt19
 
I installed the Hybrid Kit and I'm hitting 30 on idle. I reused the cross-brace with the stock gpu screws. I also used Artic MX4 instead of the pre-applied thermal paste on the block. I swapped out the fans for Noctua chromax and offloaded them onto the MOBO instead. Cleaning off the old thermals was a pain, but got it done with 90% Iso Alc with a microfiber towel and brush. Compress air to dry it all up. 

 
Yes I even see guys with the EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid factory and they have very high temps. So you think that using the stock cross plate tightens it better? About the thermal compound yes I can imagine it will be a pain, and I agree to replace the stock thermal compound that comes witht the AIO. 
 
Thank You, Happy New Year!!!
 
 
 

andressergio

crisgt19
 
I installed the Hybrid Kit and I'm hitting 30 on idle. I reused the cross-brace with the stock gpu screws. I also used Artic MX4 instead of the pre-applied thermal paste on the block. I swapped out the fans for Noctua chromax and offloaded them onto the MOBO instead. Cleaning off the old thermals was a pain, but got it done with 90% Iso Alc with a microfiber towel and brush. Compress air to dry it all up. 

 
Yes I even see guys with the EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid factory and they have very high temps. So you think that using the stock cross plate tightens it better? About the thermal compound yes I can imagine it will be a pain, and I agree to replace the stock thermal compound that comes witht the AIO. 
 
Thank You, Happy New Year!!!
 
Here's the backplate.