Fan header interfering with waterblock

[arcadeperfect]

Hi,

 

The fan header in the photos is preventing the waterblock from making contact.
Can anyone recommend the safest way to remove it?

 

Thanks!

[Statik]

Are you sure your waterblock is compatible with your specific card? Before you start ghetto blasting shit off.

[Letgomyleghoe]

Specific model and block would be appreciated 

[LIGISTX]

10 minutes ago, arcadeperfect said:

Hi,

 

The fan header in the photos is preventing the waterblock from making contact.
Can anyone recommend the safest way to remove it?

 

Thanks!

We really need to know what card and what block your using. Are you sure its compatible....?

 

If EVERYTHING else is correct, none of the capacitors are in a place that won't support, the VRM and RAM is all identically spaced out and correctly located etc, I wouldn't modify the card, I would dremel that plastic part of the water block a bit, assuming that section doesn't have any water in it which it shouldn't. since there isn't any coldplate in that area.

[arcadeperfect]

Card is Gigabyte RTX 2080 ti  turbo and block is EK vector. Worth noting that the card is reference PCB except with normal fan headers as opposed to the proprietary ribbon cable the founder's eddition came with.

 

However I have to confess that I've rechecked the EK website and the card isn't listed in the compatibility table. That's confusing because I definitely checked. Maybe I was drunk.

 

I got it off Amazon so I could return it and get something else.

[arcadeperfect]

6 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

We really need to know what card and what block your using. Are you sure its compatible....?

 

If EVERYTHING else is correct, none of the capacitors are in a place that won't support, the VRM and RAM is all identically spaced out and correctly located etc, I wouldn't modify the card, I would dremel that plastic part of the water block a bit, assuming that section doesn't have any water in it which it shouldn't. since there isn't any coldplate in that area.

Sadly it isn't plastic that it's hitting, it's the actual metal of the waterblock.

[LIGISTX]

2 minutes ago, arcadeperfect said:

Sadly it isn't plastic that it's hitting, it's the actual metal of the waterblock.

Oh, I saw that wrong.... That section of the metal very well may not have any water flow above it tho.... If that is the case, can just dremel that metal down. But if it does, looks like that won't work. You can desolder the fan header..... but, i mean, I am not I would do that, and I have milled pockets and stuff in water blocks to make them fit my cards in the past that were slightly non-reference.

[arcadeperfect]

Just now, LIGISTX said:

Oh, I saw that wrong.... That section of the metal very well may not have any water flow above it tho.... If that is the case, can just dremel that metal down. But if it does, looks like that won't work. You can desolder the fan header..... but, i mean, I am not I would do that, and I have milled pockets and stuff in water blocks to make them fit my cards in the past that were slightly non-reference.

Now that I've discovered my card isn't even officially compatibly (was sure it was) and Amazon accepts returns, I think I'ma play it safe and get a different block.