Best water-cooled 1080

[CebasvdH]

Hey Guys,

 

I was wondering what all in one water-cooled 1080 would have your preference. the following cards are available in the Netherlands.

 

• MSI Gefore GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X 8GB 
• Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Extreme Gaming Waterforce 8GB
• Inno3D GeForce GTX 1080 8GB iChill Black
• EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Gaming
• EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Hybrid gaming 

Looking forward for your reactions. 

[TSL]

Personally I'd choose any but the Inno3D as I don't trust something like water cooling with a lesser known brand. I could be wrong... You're overclocking I'm guessing so there shouldn't be that much variance between them all aside from aesthetics... That's all I've got

[Bananasplit_00]

one with a Heatkiller IV, like mine

 

id probably go EVGA or MSI, Inno3D im unsure and the Gigabyte one just looks bad. the EVGA FTW should have the FTW PCB which is pretty nice and the MSI card probably has the Gameing X PCB which is also really good

[sirromeoj]

Be careful you don't spend so much that you could have brought a 1080 ti instead. Also have you considered doing it yourself using an off the shelf aio from the likes of corsair or NZXT and a mounting bracket. I think NZXT even do a pre done kit for doing this and making it look nice. 

 

If you want to do it yourself, check out gamersnexus, they have a few guides on their site/ youtube channel for doing this.

[Froody129]

Just buy a 1080ti...

[Princess Luna]

The cheapest 1080 Ti on reference pcb which is the Asus Turbo right now, and an AiO.

[pzspah]

2 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

The cheapest 1080 Ti on reference pcb which is the Asus Turbo right now, and an AiO.

Isn't the turbo non-reference tho?

 

I have the MSI (it was the cheapest 1080 on black friday) and it performs perfectly well. about 50c @ 2114mhz auto oc, 10516mhz on the memory.

[xg32]

either go super cheap or go with a 1080 ti with an AIO, buying a 1080 with an AIO this late into the cycle is awk.

[i_build_nanosuits]

GTX 1080 is such a nice little energy efficient chip, a water cooler on that is absolutely pointless IMHO...unless it's just for the show i guess...

[tcari394]

I have two Seahawks and love them.

[Crunchy Dragon]

I would get the MSI Seahawk or  a 1080Ti

[ZenMonkey]

I believe the EVGA FTW has the best power delivery of your list, which should provide the most reliable overclocking, but statistically they should all be in the same ballpark regarding their max speeds so it's not worth a large price variance.

 

 

2 hours ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

GTX 1080 is such a nice little energy efficient chip, a water cooler on that is absolutely pointless IMHO...unless it's just for the show i guess...

 

I had serious overheating and throttling issues with my turbo design card and had to remove the cooler and add a G12 + AIO to get any sort of reliable performance out of it. Now, it overclocks to ~2100 MHz without issue and never goes above 70C.

[i_build_nanosuits]

6 minutes ago, ZenMonkey said:

I had serious overheating and throttling issues with my turbo design card and had to remove the cooler and add a G12 + AIO to get any sort of reliable performance out of it. Now, it overclocks to ~2100 MHz without issue and never goes above 70C.

well yeah of course if you go bottom of the barrel and buy a card with a 6$ blower plastic cooler on it you're asking for trouble...but any decent card with 2 or 3 fans and open design is more than enough for a 1080. My windforce card runs awesome at good temps and everything.

[ZenMonkey]

4 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

well yeah of course if you go bottom of the barrel and buy a card with a 6$ blower plastic cooler on it you're asking for trouble...but any decent card with 2 or 3 fans and open design is more than enough for a 1080. My windforce card runs awesome at good temps and everything.

 

I went blower style because I was trying an ITX build, but the video card performance was unacceptable, so I slapped on an aftermarket AIO and stuck it in a mid-tower ATX case.

[Mick Naughty]

Id get the ftw for the board. As not really happy with the oc of the reference boards. Would rather have blowers on them and look better and get the same performance.