Hello everyone
Hope you all okay
I'm Kinda in a dilemma and I want the community opinion on it, 1 year ago I have bought RTX2080 Super waterforce from Gigabyte the one come with closed loop (not only water block) lately I was listening to some bubbles noises also I bought new case "Cooler master TD500 Mesh" to change my bitfenix enso mesh as it only support 1 240 rad and i wanted to install AIO for my CPU. however while dismantling my PC I found a leak trace in the GPU like in the picture. I Contacted Gigabyte and asked them to sell me the closed loop cooler for this card as spare part and their response was to check my dealer they were very unhelpful as they closed all options for me. the card should have a 4 years warranty but I bought the card from amazon and globally shipped it to me. so I'm kinda out of the returning options.
For now I think the card is not leaking anymore (not 100% sure) but i think the leak is at the tubing fitting from the GPU side, in case it was twisted a little i can see trace of liquid. For any case with 160mm wide this will happen (i think it advised to vertical mount this card because look on the pictures on my old case setup tubing was not that bad). now the tubes are in the best position I could make it and the radiator is on the top so air wont ruin the pump. The GPU now is usable, the idle temperature is 30-32 (before was 26 but also front mount so not sure if its because of the leak as the cooler needs more liquid or because of the top mount, as the CPU rad feeding hot air to it) and at load its 52/60 depends on my fan curve * it was 52 with silent mod which now is 59~60 with same mod).
Also the bubble noise is more often now, so here is my solutions:
1 - Buy EK block for my GPU and go full custom loop with the card (will cost me alot and new GPUs in the corner)
2 - Buy a premix coolant and try to refill the closed loop cooler (not sure if i should just try to add liquid or empty it and fill it full) I'm kinda pro in modification and maintenance so I think I will be fine
3 - Buy new card when the RTX 3000 series launch and get over with it (not sure if I can sell my GPU with this condition without lying which not an option) also for now I don't feel the need to upgrade which is so sad.
4 - leave it like this and watch what will happen next XD if get worse try to fill it maybe of buy block. ( this will be hard on my heart xD, also shipping will take long time for GPU block ect so I might end up with no PC for long time )
If you have any other Idea I will be very great-full, Pictures of my current system is attached the least your tought about the gpu tubes now?
And an advise avoid this model because really I was really careful with it and I have build tons of PC before and I mean tons. also found some similar cases in youtube so ....