Which 2080 for watercooling?

[Ardox]

I am currently in the situation where I am getting a RTX 2080 and putting a waterblock on it, but with all the reviews and the weird things nvidia has been pulling I am finding myself rather confused on which card to actually get. I kinda narrowed my options down to either a EVGA 2080 XC or a founders edition card directly from nvidia. My confusion mainly comes from the fact that nvidia keeps the better chips to themselves, so I assume it would be best to get a card from nvidia directly, right? But with EVGA's Precision X1 overclocking utility it seems like the EVGA cards are allowed for 130% power when overclocking while nvidias card only get 124% and they go as low as 109 for some of the partner cards. I basically want the best performance given the fact that I am putting the card under water and therefore temps should be quite low. Help!

[Firewrath9]

hydro Copper EVGA. comes with a waterbloc.

OR MSI Armor

[SolarNova]

I'd wait for more custom baord versions to come out. Wait for reviews on them.

 

Currently all the reviewed cards i've seen have limited power controls and effectivly no votlage control.

 

If you going the water cooling route i would wait to see if any custom bioses come out to hopefully open up some good overclocking.

 

if your going to get one now then perhaps the EVGA FTW. It is a cusotm board and 'should' have atleast 130% power limit.

[Ardox]

1 minute ago, SolarNova said:

I'd wait for more custom baord versions to come out. Wait for reviews on them.

 

Currently all the reviewed cards i've seen have limited power controls and effectivly no votlage control.

 

If you going the water cooling route i would wait to see if any custom bioses come out to hopefully open up some good overclocking.

I currently don't have a graphics card so waiting isn't much of an option really

[SolarNova]

3 minutes ago, Ardox said:

I currently don't have a graphics card so waiting isn't much of an option really

ok well if your going to get one now then perhaps the EVGA FTW. It is a custom board and 'should' have atleast 130% power limit like the EVGA XC versions

 

EDIT: EVGA has released a Bios for all theire 20 series cards increasing power target to 130%. Though i still recommend their custom board versions (FTW)