2080 Ti Upgrade Help

[Xaiux]

Hi, I'm trying to figure out if there's a solution to fitting a 2080 Ti inside my case. I have a Bitfenix Prodigy ITX, and I currently have a ROG Strix 2070 in it. If I want to upgrade to a 2080 Ti, the ROG Strix one is too thick. My 2070 is the absolute max thickness I can go. I'd like to have a pretty card (so no blowers), because I have an acrylic side panel to show off the build. The Aorus Waterforce caught my eye, but I already have a 240mm rad at the front of my case for the 9900K. I'm not sure if there are any rads thin enough to fit in the top. I'd need a fan and rad combo thinner than about 30mm at least at one end to fit with the current rad at the front. I could do a little bit of case modding too, but I love this case and don't really want to swap it entirely. I have plenty of length and height to go in the GPU slot, but 4.89cm thickness of the 2070 is the absolute max. 

 

Here's a current pic for reference. If this is the wrong place to ask just let me know or move it, thanks!

[Fishscene]

Would it be possible to bring the side panel out more, either by mounting it differently or adding spacers? Not sure what to do about the sides for dust/airflow. I'm sure you could run by a hardware store and buy a strip or two of airgap filler (That's my term for it, I'm not sure exactly what it's called) for a door that might be paintable and add that along the sides to fill in the gap. The airgap fillers I've seen have a non-permanent sticky side so it'll stick to a doorway easily.

It's non-permanent case-modding. :)

[Sorenson]

I think your only bet would be a 2080 ti with a 120mm rad and mount it as exhaust. 

[SolarNova]

Its a bad time to be upgrading to a 2080ti. Those things are going to drop in value like a stone when the 30 series releases, based on expected performance.

The new GPUs are not only more efficient, thus more powerfull per watt, and more powerfull per given mm2 in size, but the chips themselves are massive, its expected that both AMD and Nvidas top gaming cards will wreck the 2080ti and possibly have lower mid range cards matching the current 2080ti for a fraction of the cost.

 

IMO nobody should be buying 2080ti's anymore, not with the information we have now.

[Xaiux]

18 minutes ago, Fishscene said:

Would it be possible to bring the side panel out more, either by mounting it differently or adding spacers? Not sure what to do about the sides for dust/airflow. I'm sure you could run by a hardware store and buy a strip or two of airgap filler (That's my term for it, I'm not sure exactly what it's called) for a door that might be paintable and add that along the sides to fill in the gap. The airgap fillers I've seen have a non-permanent sticky side so it'll stick to a doorway easily.

It's non-permanent case-modding.

If you look at the picture, you can see there's a lip around the corner of the case at the rear. I would have to cut that off since that is moreso the limiting factor than the side of the case. The acrylic panel is bowed out a little already

[Xaiux]

7 minutes ago, Sorenson said:

I think your only bet would be a 2080 ti with a 120mm rad and mount it as exhaust.

Is a 120mm rad enough for a 2080 Ti?

[Xaiux]

7 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

Its a bad time to be upgrading to a 2080ti. Those things are going to drop in value like a stone when the 30 series releases, based on expected performance.

The new GPUs are not only more efficient, thus more powerfull per watt, and more powerfull per given mm2 in size, but the chips themselves are massive, its expected that both AMD and Nvidas top gaming cards will wreck the 2080ti and possibly have lower mid range cards matching the current 2080ti for a fraction of the cost.

 

IMO nobody should be buying 2080ti's anymore, not with the information we have now.

Valid points. However I expect all of this research to be useful for the 3080 Ti or whatever the case will be. 

[Sorenson]

1 hour ago, Xaiux said:

Is a 120mm rad enough for a 2080 Ti?

Honestly, I’m not sure. I doubt companies would sell them if it couldn’t cool it though. I used a 2080 super modded with a kraken g12 and a 140mm aio and it worked fine. The temps were like mid 70s in a really really small case.

[Xaiux]

17 hours ago, Sorenson said:

Honestly, I’m not sure. I doubt companies would sell them if it couldn’t cool it though. I used a 2080 super modded with a kraken g12 and a 140mm aio and it worked fine. The temps were like mid 70s in a really really small case.

Would that be like the EVGA FTW3 where it has a fan on the gpu and on the rad?

[Sorenson]

2 hours ago, Xaiux said:

Would that be like the EVGA FTW3 where it has a fan on the gpu and on the rad?

Yea pretty much. I had their version of the 1070 ti that did that but had problems with the 120mm fan. I had to plug it into a mobo header to control the fan speed. You might have better luck with the MSI one.