Shout-out to Micro Center and EKWB for helping to make this video possible! I decided to show more of the tear down and prep work needed to help people be more comfortable with taking apart their cards, cleaning them, and then the easy steps of applying the water block.
For my Inno3D 3090 I have a PC fan blowing air on the alloy backplate. This really helps. I use FanCtrl program to raise fan rpm relative to GPU temperature.
Oh man, I just ordered the same card and thought I better check if my 3x120mm intakes and 1x120mm outtake is going to be enough for heavy machine learning use. Impressive setup.
I just bought two full sets of ARCTIC P12 Max - High-Performance 120 mm case Fan, PWM Controlled 200-3300 RPM, optimised for Static Pressure, from Amazon for less than 9 bucks each. I've been watercooling for over 25 years, these are the second best Static Pressure fans I've ever own, & they're 1/5th the price. But when stock runs low their price will skyrocket, as good fans always do. No ARGB, but with super small ITX builds LED lights look stupid to me.
Upgraded mine to water cooling and w/ front n backplate- Temps idle 30, max 55, totally awesome water block and looks amazing on RGB. My Asus ROG Strix 3090 OC, Runs amazing !
I am currently building a new PC. Went with the EVGA FTW3 ULTRA 3090 and its going in the EKWB EK-Quantum Vector² FTW3 RTX 3080/90 ABP Set D-RGB. Latest version of the full double sided water block.
I switched to Alphacool waterblocks a long time ago and my EVGA 3090 FTW3 with the active backplate does not get more than 60 C on memory junction temperature when mining 24/7
Hi. I wanted to ask. Did the size of the thermal pads that EK has in their instructions seem accurate? I want to switch them out for some gelid thermal pads, but i dont know how much I need nor the thickness i need. Should i just copy whats in the EK instructions? Thank you!
Always had ek but I switched to bykski. Quality is top notch and way cheaper. Bought an bykski for my 6950 XT for 130 euro's incl shipping and a backplate.
Man I really want a custom loop in my new build. I have no idea where to start, even with the configuration tools on EK and Corsair is really difficult to understand. I live no where near a micro center type store to get advice been watching video after video but Leary to pull the trigger.
Read up, watch all my water cooling videos, early Jayz2cents videos, Paul's hardware, and more reading. Take your time. You will know when you're ready.
@@DaPoets that's a shame, i was really hoping it was possible. so thanks for responding again for not letting me find out after i had wasted time and money on this!
I've actually been contemplating on buying a 3090 Ti since it's been discounted quite a bit, but then comes the issue with the upcoming 4090 soon. Would probably be a waste of money doing that right now. I just want a card with 24 GB of VRAM, don't much care if it's a 3090 or 4090, however the price DOES matter. First world problems as always :)
Unless you're doing some extremely high end workloads, you won't see a tangible difference between a 3090TI and a 4090 base on the info we have right now (also unless you're doing 8K gaming). 30 series are at a good price point and falling while the 40 series will get scooped up fairly quickly w/ less 30 series available as they are not making more. May be a good idea to buy now.
@@DaPoets True. They claim a 66% more performance gain over the 3090 Ti in a synthetic benchmark, but that really tells us nothing in a real gaming scenario. There's some rumors about it being more expensive compared to the 3090 MSRP since the performance gap between the 4080 and 4090 this time around is supposedly much larger.
@@TolaGarf With those performance gains come insane power draw as well. I'm avoiding the 40 series and plan on picking up a 30 series soon purely because I am SFF and I am not prepared to deal with Nvidia's ham fisted speed improvements by just throwing more watts at everything. That extra power draw has gotta increase temps as well, which means even bigger cards to handle the extra heat dissipation.
Remember at the bar the other day, we had a conversation and you told me you would donate the 3990x, mobo, and ram to me to help out a fellow enthusiast... well im ready, where do you want me to send my address?
When you are reviewing a product, you don't change the components. Also you can't compare w/mK between different companies as they all have their own way of calculating that, so it's meaningless unless it's in the same product line by 1 company.
@@DaPoets doh. Right. I mistook you for showing the best of what it can do. I get it. It would be interesting to see if high performance pads make any significant difference
Not much point in changing out the EK thermal pads as they do their intended job quite well. I'm also not sure you would gain much from going to either 12 or 17 pads since the copper water block will transfer the heat so fast anyway. It's doing its job as it's supposed to do. Now this might be a different story for air cooled cards as the heat has to be transferred into an aluminium heatsink, and you want as much heat transfer as possible. I get a temperature of around 60C on my VRAM with my RTX 3080 with those default EK pads.
96 degrees? Wtf…. You should not be anywhere near those temps with a 480 rad rocking 4 fans each maxed out. You’ve got to be falling short somewhere in your components, probably fans on the rads aren’t enough and EK usually sucks anyway.
Now try it with 2 3090s and active backplates like this: i.imgur.com/ScYtU1n.jpg You videos were instrumental in helping me build my Threadrippoer Pro 3975WX with dual 3090s. Thanks.
Shout-out to Micro Center and EKWB for helping to make this video possible!
I decided to show more of the tear down and prep work needed to help people be more comfortable with taking apart their cards, cleaning them, and then the easy steps of applying the water block.
66c vram on a 3090 while under load is huge. Can't wait to install mine tonight
For my Inno3D 3090 I have a PC fan blowing air on the alloy backplate. This really helps. I use FanCtrl program to raise fan rpm relative to GPU temperature.
Oh man, I just ordered the same card and thought I better check if my 3x120mm intakes and 1x120mm outtake is going to be enough for heavy machine learning use. Impressive setup.
I just bought two full sets of ARCTIC P12 Max - High-Performance 120 mm case Fan, PWM Controlled 200-3300 RPM, optimised for Static Pressure, from Amazon for less than 9 bucks each. I've been watercooling for over 25 years, these are the second best Static Pressure fans I've ever own, & they're 1/5th the price. But when stock runs low their price will skyrocket, as good fans always do.
No ARGB, but with super small ITX builds LED lights look stupid to me.
Upgraded mine to water cooling and w/ front n backplate- Temps idle 30, max 55, totally awesome water block and looks amazing on RGB. My Asus ROG Strix 3090 OC, Runs amazing !
I am currently building a new PC. Went with the EVGA FTW3 ULTRA 3090 and its going in the EKWB EK-Quantum Vector² FTW3 RTX 3080/90 ABP Set D-RGB. Latest version of the full double sided water block.
you know you can do the memory modules in one rectangular pad
I switched to Alphacool waterblocks a long time ago and my EVGA 3090 FTW3 with the active backplate does not get more than 60 C on memory junction temperature when mining 24/7
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Ended up picking up this wb and the Kinetic^2 Trio 3090 as well. So excited to start watercooling!
Hope you enjoy it!
Really good info, this is exactly what I wanted to see if its worth the buck getting the active plate or not.
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Hi. I wanted to ask. Did the size of the thermal pads that EK has in their instructions seem accurate? I want to switch them out for some gelid thermal pads, but i dont know how much I need nor the thickness i need. Should i just copy whats in the EK instructions? Thank you!
Hello I want to ask you the 2 blocks has 2 cables RGB 5V my board has 1 RGB 5v slot, the other how can I connet it?
Always had ek but I switched to bykski. Quality is top notch and way cheaper. Bought an bykski for my 6950 XT for 130 euro's incl shipping and a backplate.
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At 11:43 it looks like you forgot to peel the thermal pads. Could you confirm or check?
They were all peeled but possibly not on camera.
Thanks for the reply. I have the same block for a few months now and I been pretty happy with it.
Man I really want a custom loop in my new build. I have no idea where to start, even with the configuration tools on EK and Corsair is really difficult to understand. I live no where near a micro center type store to get advice been watching video after video but Leary to pull the trigger.
Read up, watch all my water cooling videos, early Jayz2cents videos, Paul's hardware, and more reading. Take your time. You will know when you're ready.
Killing it as usual🤙🏽
Thanks Rob! Enjoying it!
Yikes they still using thermal puddy? Gonna suck for warranty claims if you disassembled the card.
They honor the warranty if removed from what I've seen from a few sources.
@@DaPoets Ah that's nice. They used to be a bit stiff on this issue
Arctic Clean FTW!
Damn right!
great to see!
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is it possible to use the ekwb active watercooling backplate in combination with the stock cooler?
No
@@DaPoets i mean in combination of the front stock cooler or do i have to install a front waterblock as well?
thanks for the reply
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@@Yorhosashi Front & back is required together.
@@DaPoets that's a shame, i was really hoping it was possible.
so thanks for responding again for not letting me find out after i had wasted time and money on this!
Hi! what EK Quantum vector2 do I need for my Asus RTX 3080Ti?
Go to the EKWB website and use their compatibility tool
I've actually been contemplating on buying a 3090 Ti since it's been discounted quite a bit, but then comes the issue with the upcoming 4090 soon. Would probably be a waste of money doing that right now. I just want a card with 24 GB of VRAM, don't much care if it's a 3090 or 4090, however the price DOES matter. First world problems as always :)
Unless you're doing some extremely high end workloads, you won't see a tangible difference between a 3090TI and a 4090 base on the info we have right now (also unless you're doing 8K gaming). 30 series are at a good price point and falling while the 40 series will get scooped up fairly quickly w/ less 30 series available as they are not making more. May be a good idea to buy now.
@@DaPoets True. They claim a 66% more performance gain over the 3090 Ti in a synthetic benchmark, but that really tells us nothing in a real gaming scenario. There's some rumors about it being more expensive compared to the 3090 MSRP since the performance gap between the 4080 and 4090 this time around is supposedly much larger.
@@TolaGarf With those performance gains come insane power draw as well. I'm avoiding the 40 series and plan on picking up a 30 series soon purely because I am SFF and I am not prepared to deal with Nvidia's ham fisted speed improvements by just throwing more watts at everything. That extra power draw has gotta increase temps as well, which means even bigger cards to handle the extra heat dissipation.
Remember at the bar the other day, we had a conversation and you told me you would donate the 3990x, mobo, and ram to me to help out a fellow enthusiast... well im ready, where do you want me to send my address?
Bad - why are you using crappy 3w/mK included thermal pads!! step it up - Thermalright makes some 12 & 17w/mK for a fair price go get em
When you are reviewing a product, you don't change the components. Also you can't compare w/mK between different companies as they all have their own way of calculating that, so it's meaningless unless it's in the same product line by 1 company.
@@DaPoets doh. Right. I mistook you for showing the best of what it can do. I get it.
It would be interesting to see if high performance pads make any significant difference
Not much point in changing out the EK thermal pads as they do their intended job quite well. I'm also not sure you would gain much from going to either 12 or 17 pads since the copper water block will transfer the heat so fast anyway. It's doing its job as it's supposed to do. Now this might be a different story for air cooled cards as the heat has to be transferred into an aluminium heatsink, and you want as much heat transfer as possible. I get a temperature of around 60C on my VRAM with my RTX 3080 with those default EK pads.
Even 66 Celsius is too hot for that kind of rad size
96 degrees? Wtf…. You should not be anywhere near those temps with a 480 rad rocking 4 fans each maxed out. You’ve got to be falling short somewhere in your components, probably fans on the rads aren’t enough and EK usually sucks anyway.
I think you misunderstood some of the data
LOL? bro, 96 degree C on AIR ... >.<
dim wit ..
Listen to the video, and don't do crack ..
Now try it with 2 3090s and active backplates like this:
i.imgur.com/ScYtU1n.jpg
You videos were instrumental in helping me build my Threadrippoer Pro 3975WX with dual 3090s. Thanks.
Yep that's my next setup for Deep Blue pending 4090 info... 🤫