3080 tuf pcb

[Fungal]

I'm planning to watercool a 3080 with 2 or more hdmi. Does the 3080 tuf have a reference pcb? If it doesn't do you think ekwb would make a waterblock for it. 

[Fungal]

Just now, Abyssal Radon said:

Impossible to know. Also (correct me if I'm wrong) if your planning on getting two 3080's, unfortunately you can't use SLI with the 3080. The best bet for a water block is a F.E. 3080.

sorry if it wasn't clear, I meant 2 hdmi ports on a single card. Only asus and gigabyte/aorus cards have it

[DildorTheDecent]

9 minutes ago, Fungal said:

Does the 3080 tuf have a reference pcb?

Knowing ASUS it will look like a reference PCB but be custom enough (i.e. using their own power stages + other layout differences) that it'll render the standard reference blocks incompatible.

 

Although that's just a guess. Won't know for sure until there's a tear-down tomorrow when the rest of the RTX 3080s release.

[Jurrunio]

Asus has a track record of using custom PCBs even on their low end models of any GPU, which means the chance of the TUF card using reference PCB is really low.

 

https://medium.com/@sarynn/my-adventure-liquid-cooling-the-asus-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-turbo-cf010861219d

 

14 minutes ago, Fungal said:

sorry if it wasn't clear, I meant 2 hdmi ports on a single card. Only asus and gigabyte/aorus cards have it

Just use DP port then? DP to HDMI can be done with simply a cable with different connectors on each end, unlike the other way around.

[Fungal]

Just now, Abyssal Radon said:

Gotcha, well unfortunately we don't know. I mean you could try and contact EK. But it still depends upon whether the Tuf card has a stock PCB design or aftermarket design.

Man I was hoping aib partners would give us more info on their cards today. Done tons of research and their is just so little information out there on custom cards. I think the TUF lineup has only been out for 5700xt and 2060 and below NVIDIA cards, so there's no precedent on waterblocks.

 

4 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Knowing ASUS it will look like a reference PCB but be custom enough (i.e. using their own power stages + other layout differences) that it'll render the standard reference blocks incompatible.

 

Yeah that's what I figured. they already added another hdmi to it over the reference design. The (probably incomplete) reference card lists i've seen don't have asus, gigabyte, or msi on them.

[Fungal]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Just use DP port then? DP to HDMI can be done with simply a cable with different connectors on each end, unlike the other way around.

Unfortunately hdmi 2.1 has more bandwidth than current dp 1.4a otherwise I wouldn't care. Hdmi can do 4k 120hz 10bit. Displayport can 144hz but that's with dsc or chroma subsampling, I'd rather just have 120hz with no compression. Plan on getting a lg cx during black friday and a 4k144 hdmi 2.1 monitor when a decent one comes out.