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Hey guys, im looking to buy a 980 ti, with intentions to water cool the gpu. 
was wondering if anyone has had any problems trying to water cool non-reference cards. 

Heard that you could remove the heat sink entirely which is problematic.
I bring this up cause it seems impossible to find a reference 980ti where i live.

 

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Hey guys, im looking to buy a 980 ti, with intentions to water cool the gpu. 

was wondering if anyone has had any problems trying to water cool non-reference cards. 

Heard that you could remove the heat sink entirely which is problematic.

I bring this up cause it seems impossible to find a reference 980ti where i live.

EKWB makes water blocks for some aftermarket designs like the Gigabyte G1 and Asus Strix.

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Asus 980ti strix oc. 14% better performance than titan x.

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Asus 980ti strix oc. 14% better performance than titan x.

I am not to sure about that.

If you want to throw some money out of the window for your card there is EVGA (with great warranty in terms of cooler swapping and stuff...) or even the Kingpin cards.

i am pretty sure the will performa better than the Asus :/

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I am not to sure about that.

If you want to throw some money out of the window for your card there is EVGA (with great warranty in terms of cooler swapping and stuff...) or even the Kingpin cards.

i am pretty sure the will perf

orma better than the Asus :/

Majority of LTT and HW Canuck vids shows the strix with higher fps and lower temp to other non reference cards. People that hate strix just hate Asus.

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Majority of LTT and HW Canuck vids shows the strix with higher fps and lower temp to other non reference cards. People that hate strix just hate Asus.

This gen of asus cards is awful. Get evga and you are plenty good.

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I am not to sure about that.

If you want to throw some money out of the window for your card there is EVGA (with great warranty in terms of cooler swapping and stuff...) or even the Kingpin cards.

i am pretty sure the will performa better than the Asus :/

Kingpin is not worth the price.

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Majority of LTT and HW Canuck vids shows the strix with higher fps and lower temp to other non reference cards. People that hate strix just hate Asus.

Some People simply dont know what they are talking about and just repeat stuff others said before. The Strix is a good Card.

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Windhaven is cute

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Kingpin is not worth the price.

I sayid "throw money out the window" ...

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Some People simply dont know what they are talking about and just repeat stuff others said before. The Strix is a good Card.

But the Strix cooler has a bad design compared to what contendors offer.

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Kind of cruel what I read in this thread to be honest. Neither of you has real experience with custom watercooling GPUs, do you?

 

Yes the Asus STRIX 980Ti has a fullcover block available through EKWB, BUT Asus cards are very limited through their BIOS, and neither the STRIX nor the Matrix will allow you to modify the voltage in its BIOS. They have a hard lock and let you overvolt only very mildly, so in other words you can use custom watercooling for standard OCing like on air just with better temps. And then the customer service of Asus is literally non existent in most cases. It doesn´t mean the cards are terrible in general and if someone looks for a quiet card on air okay I get the point.

But honestly for custom water cooling a nVidia card you want to go with EVGA, not only does EKWB hold most of the design of those PCB as specific fullcover block, but also EVGA holds up warranty if you remove their heatsink put a fullcover block on. If you fry the chip all they want is the original heatsink back on the card, and they will replace the card without asking any question. Their 24/7 customer service is always kind and helpful. And their cards are being bought by top OCers. That means in other words many already perfectly modded BIOS are available for nice OCs matching a good custom loop. Even the Kingpin GTX980Ti has a fullcover block availabe, though I woud rather go with the regular Classified. They are one hell of a card and OC with water usually like crazy. This is a card worth being bought for custom water cooling.

 

For cards like AMP!extreme, Asus Matrix or MSI Lightning are no full cover blocks existent at this time and point. Simply because the demand is too low.

 

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Kind of cruel what I read in this thread to be honest. Neither of you has real experience with custom watercooling GPUs, do you?

No, I don't but I don't need that to be able to tell the OP that there are better cards out there for what the Strix costs, in ANY regard (water or air).

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No, I don't but I don't need that to be able to tell the OP that there are better cards out there for what the Strix costs, in ANY regard (water or air).

Fair enough, there are better cards out there. Like I stated it isn´t the worst card made on air. It´s just you guys fight over stuff that doesn´t even help the OP. I´m not trying to be mean here in any regards but I wonder how quick people are with their statements although having no first hand experience.

 

I just finished a friend´s build with a custom loop and a single EVGA GTX980Ti ACX2.0 some weeks ago. For me it´s always a pleasure to work with that company´s parts because I know you´re always safe. Nice card, modded BIOS and even though the card has a reference PCB the OCing results were nice.

 

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get a asus posidon

A Poseidon is a really good choice... NOT! It is a wannabe all jack of trades card. That´s never good. Go full cover in water or go home.

 

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A Poseidon is a really good choice... NOT! It is a wannabe all jack of trades card. That´s never good. Go full cover in water or go home.

+1 either you do it right or you don't even do it.

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+1 either you do it right or you don't even do it.

Thanks, I already thought I was the last guy that understands how it´s done right lol :).

 

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Alright guys finally got a new card.

got the zotac gtx980 ti AMP extreme 

its a huge step up from my older gpu which was a galaxy 660

Did you order it yesterday and already got it?

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Alright guys finally got a new card.

got the zotac gtx980 ti AMP extreme 

its a huge step up from my older gpu which was a galaxy 660

Nice card GZ! They are reliable and fast and OC decent on air. I guess you ain´t got no further intensions to custom watercool your GPU then.

 

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Nice card GZ! They are reliable and fast and OC decent on air. I guess you ain´t got no further intensions to custom watercool your GPU then.

i was going for the EVGA supeclock + cause they had a great deal on it  but they had non left

so i was sitting in store comptiplating on it then i was like fuck it. 

if anything ill just watercool the cpu, or something. 

the price was too good to let it go. 

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