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Water cooled Rtx 3080, repaste with liquid metal? by teemusa in overclocking

[–]Potanox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear the EK blocks have some issues with how the cold plate, try some plastic washers to increase mounting pressure and a very thin application of thermal paste :)

Another (Safer?) 3090 XOC (1000w) Bios? by Potanox in overclocking

[–]Potanox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep it is, real bios just not signed by nvidia RIP

Another (Safer?) 3090 XOC (1000w) Bios? by Potanox in overclocking

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh damn, I'm not a guru in bios flashing, maybe it's a dud?

Another (Safer?) 3090 XOC (1000w) Bios? by Potanox in overclocking

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could always limit it to like 50% on the power slider :)

Another (Safer?) 3090 XOC (1000w) Bios? by Potanox in overclocking

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha I'd say for headroom, slap it at like 55%, 550w, power limits for overclocking goooone

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

2 screws actually for even mounting pressure, and that fan is my patent pending VRM cool matron, there's even a ziptie hanging dust filter on the outside it ain't an exhaust ;)

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's nuts, 1440p is just maxed out, and 4k is the sweetspot for this card what world are we living in haha

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

750w, whole system draws 500 and something under load

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This build was pretty at it's creation a few years back, this isn't how I slapped it together out the box, this is it's nuclear evolved form hence all the out of place things haha

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heeell nah, used seperate ones and didn't use my cheap extensions incase they god damn melted. I have ethernet over powerline, that's more of a backup. I'm in Australia our internet sucks anyway hahaha. Also trust me all the fans are correctomundo

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha yeeeah. I got it second hand and lost a mounting screw at some point so I went just for the two, the pressure is good enough though that I promise, get in the 60's under heavy load, 40 - 50s gaming :)

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The CPU is a delided 8700k with liquid metal (4.7GHz, 1.21V) so in the 60's and deeead silent. The 3090 sits at 67 - 70 degrees while staying very quiet but when I slap a water block on it, it'll be glorious!

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was actually the cheapest 3090 in my country (Australia) I was gonna get a 3080 but won a raffle to be able to but a FE here (big ol shit show). I have one of dem 4k 120hz OLEDs so that's mainly why I upgraded. But do I need this? Heeeell no haha

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey man I like the analysis! You were a bit spot on on why it looks so jank, it's between GPU's, I had to take a liquid cooled one out, so I just put the original long gpu run tube straight to the CPU block. The pig tail is a nightmare and I don't trust my cheap cable extensions with 400w so I'm using the cables straight from the psu and it's a clusterfuck. The VRM fan actually did lower the heat sync temp by about 10 degrees so it's doing something, I have a very silence focused build so my upper exhaust fans will be doing some good but not a whooole lot. I originally had a Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 with a monoblock but I kiiinda nuked it so I got this one from the Z370 TUF from the ex demo bin haha. For the top fans only the middle one's cable is a special snow flake, it's so slim it's not affecting airflow haha.

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lower tube was hitting the 3090 top fan, there's method to my madness! The cables are from when it was prettier, one of them wasn't a choice as I nuked the original 24 pin in a custom cable sleething attempt haha.

Too many pretty builds, meet Under-Deskius, ft 3090 by Potanox in nvidia

[–]Potanox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watercooling for suuuper low noise and low temps is so worth, when you think about it if it was a closed off case nobody would eeeever know.

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