Mr_Boberto

My 980ti has had a waterblock on it now for probably 4 years or so. I want to take the waterblock off and put the air cooler back on it to use in a sff build. I have actually never gone back to an air cooler on a GPU after putting a waterblock on it and have a question about the thermal pads. Can i use the same EK pads that are already on it with the air cooler? or do i need the original/replacement pads to fit with the air cooler? I don't believe I have the stock pads that came with the cooler any more. My gpu is a MSI 980ti Golden Edition with the EK-FC980 GTX Ti TF5 waterblock on it. If I do need different pads does any one know the size that gpu uses so I know which ones I need to buy? Thanks for any help on this

Thanks for your help bud, I got it all figured out. Tried releasing some air from the gpu like you said and just started flipping the case around. After abit of that and wondering why nothing seemed to happen only to realize I forgot to put the jumper on the psu (its to late for this lol) the loop started flowing and Its all filled up and back to working order. Appreciate your help again

Hmm alright. I may have to carefully try that in a few. Took a break from it for now cause it was racking my brain. Can't figure out what was causing the issue. Ill let you know if that helps at all .

Wouldn't that cause fluid to come out the cracked port of the gpu then?

The bottom run filled up till its almost into the first fitting on the gpu. Pump pumps water no problem when not connected to the loop. Pump sounds/feels on when attempting to fill loop.

So I just rebuilt my loop using the EK vertical gpu bracket and had to redo a few tubes because of that. When trying to fill my loop now none of the fluid will make it into the gpu block. I took off the pump and tried it outside the case not connected to anything but power and my pump works just fine. I used a tube and blew in both sides of my loop (minus pump and res) from the left side of the gpu as well as the return tube that would fill my res and both tines felt air moving through the loop and making bubbles in some of the remaining coolant in the block. Put the pump back in the loop and reconnected the tube to the gpu and no dice again. No air or water movement into the gpu. Like a giant wall somewhere is blocking the flow. Any clue what could be causing this? The only runs different now from my previous build is the run from the pump to gpu and gpu to cpu. Thank you for any input.

Gonna be testing flipping the fans around and a few other things in the next couple days when I get some time and see if I can get it to make any difference. Did just notice something though. I think I may have the inlet and outlet backwords on the cpu block I was watching a build on youtube and noticed him planing his loop going in the left side of the block and out the right side with the EK Velocity, same block as me. Mine goes in the right side and out the left. Upon looking at the block closer I can see how I may have mixed the little arrows up and put them backwords. Any one have any experience with this block or others like it and how a reversed flow could affect temps?

Was defenitly thinking of that being one of the first things I would try. Would make sense that that should help it out. Blow all the hot air out the case and kick the bottom fans up a little more to get some more cool air in there

I still appreciate the info though. Maybe these newer chips are just naturally hotter. Makes me think my temps may not be to bad and my expectations based on my old system (4770k &980ti) were wrong.

Maybe mines alright then, what's your cpu look like?

If that's average temps I'm cool with that, just thought it seemed a little warm so I wanted to know what other people know about it. Pretty sure the pumps at full tilt right now. ICUE shows it at 0rmp (stupid Corsair issues) but its louder then when it was reporting to me at 2500rpm.

Ha your good. Didn't even see what you said

I just finished putting together my new custom loop system and I feel like temps are a little higher then they should be. I got a 9900k (still stock, MCE off) and an EVGA 2080ti xc (+130 on the core clock) both using the EK Velocity and Vector water blocks respectively. I'm useing the Lian-Li PC-011 as a case with 9 white Corsair LL fans, 3 intake on bottom, 3 intake on side pulling through a 360 EK SE radiator, and 3 exhaust on top pushing through a 360 EK PE radiator. While gaming I noticed the CPU leveling off at between 65-70c and the gpu around 55-60C. That just seems a little high to me, I know both these peices are heat monsters but dont think they should be that hot under water. I got a couple temp probes around my system going into my comander pro and can tell you at full load the coolant is around 50c, the air the side radiator is bringing in around 26-28c, temp inside case near exhaust fan around 45c I think. All these temps are from memory because I'm typing this at work right now. I can get forsure numbers after I'm home but I'm pretty sure they are close if not exactly right from what I saw when I last played. I'm wondering if it's because the top rad is bringing in that higher case temp air thus it's not cooling as efficiently as it could. So maybe flipping the side fans around to exhaust and only useing the bottom ones for intake would yield better results since I wouldnt be blasting all that hot air from the side rad into the case? I dont know, just looking for some outside input on what may be causing these temps to try and help me figure it out. Want to try all the options I can before draining the loop and seeing if it's a mounting issue. TLDR: 9900K and 2080TI custom loop seems hot (70c and 60c) in PC-011 with 2 360 rads (3 in and 3 out) Any clue what may be causing the problem? Thanks for any input anyone can gives me.

I was just thinking of trying to do that with the CMOS to see if that helps. I got into the bios real quick to check something first though and i noticed in my boot menu currently there is not a option for windows boot manager. The only thing in the boot menu is the ssd itself

So i just built a new PC and have having some trouble booting into windows. The system is a Ryzen 5 2600 on a Asus ROG Strix X470-I running on the version 0601 Bios with windows installed on a Crucial MX500 500gb M.2 sata ssd. It will take a minute to Post and then get stuck at the post Asus splash screen. When that happens ill hold the power button to turn it off and then back on again and it will post again but then flash over to another screen where it tells me it has posted into safe mode. It then lets me enter the bios where if i use the boot override and click on the ssd it will then let me boot into windows and everything seems ok. That is until the next time i try and turn the computer on and the same thing happens again. As far as i can tell something is stopping it from booting right to windows but i just cant figure out what that would be, im racking my brain around trying to figure it out. Any one with any clue what could be causing this issue would love to hear what you think. Thanks for any help