CORSAIR Hydro X Series XG7 RGB 3090, 3080 Ti, 3080 Reference GPU Water Block - For NVIDIA Geforce 30-SERIES Reference Graphics Cards - Black

The founder edition hasn't got a bad cooling as many say, or at least mine didn't. The fan was spinning at about 60% speed most of the time, with ramping up sometimes to lower the temp back belov 70degC. Temperature was never a problem, as soon as your case provides the right amount of air flow towards the bottom end of the card. The problem was a bit the noise: the fans are not extremely large, so they spin over 3000rpm at max speed, making them quite noisy when ramping up every now and then (I think the PID loop controlling them could be better, but it cannot be changed, if tweaked you revert back to a simple proportional control, while adjusting integral and derivative time of the internal PID would be better to me).Also, there is another small thing: even though the temperature was kept at 70degC, I was noticing the clock speed varying slightly when reaching such setpoint temperatures, like if it was slightly throttling, which I read seems to be normal.Undervolting a bit was making it better, but I wasn't 100% happy.I gave a go to a custom loop, using also an external radiator setup, so I can dump the heat out of the window in summer.The change is like night and day.The cooling plate works really well, it seems to hold about 10 degrees of offset between the liquid temperature and the actual chip temperature when under load. The 2x 240mm radiators will dissipate around 700 watts of heat, the GPU in total in the worst case will provide about 330w of heat, the CPU even if clocked in all core boost will add another 150w max. In fact the fans could spin at 2400rmp, but they hold the temperature perfectly at about 1100/1200 rpm, super silent, maintaining the best balance and efficiency of the radiators.The plate doesn't create any fluctuation in temperature, the GPU core is nice and stable.I just slightly undervolted and clocked at about 1920MHz in this test, while playing GTA5.I tried The Division 2 without undervolting to provide maximum load, and the highest temps I was getting were 55 degrees on the GPU chip with the radiator fans spinning slow and the liquid stabilizing at higher delta T. Faster air flow would reduce the delta T and therefore also the GPU temp, but 55 degrees is perfect, the clock would start changing above 60/65 degrees.I will monitor also the memory temps, but the plate has got thermal pads to keep them all cool, in fact I was monitoring the clock speed with FPS monitor in a few games and the results are perfectly stable.Conclusion: these cards should be water cooled by definition. Any other form of cooling do not make any sense once you try this, trust me...

reduced temperature by 35c under heavy load and Increased performance by about 5%. If you want the new icue link system with this block or any of its other non-link counterparts you need to get the icue link gpu Rgb adapter. When I opened the package it came in, it showed the design for the 3090ti strip/tuf waterblock and said it was for the “3090 aib” instead of the 3090/3080/3080ti reference. Other than that, would recommend

Not sure what to make of this.Ultimately it works great. Really dropped all temps, mem, hotspot and core on my 3080ti fe.Hotspot can still hit 70 but its hardly the end of the world considering it was passing 90 before.Also, it holds its clocks a bit better giving slightly better performance. (boy do i not get how its power limited, registers no thermal restrictions yet posts better scores and stability marks on water....)But, fitting was a bit funny at times. As per a 3080 aib version i got I had to take a file to one end of the plate for it to fit.Also, being more wise to fitment (my 3080 runs hot on the memory from the other fitment) I noticed test fitting resulted in partial contact between the plate and the gpu. So I used a healthy spread of my own paste and cranked the screws down has hard as i possibly could.This seemed to work wellWould also be nice if it re-inforced the mounting plate a bit better, or at all even!Overal tho it works well, looks good and is a good price for a front and back plate. And another important plus is Corsair to decent quality components for a full water system which makes this even more attractive.

I went full custom loop because my 3080 ti vram was hitting 112c when gaming and throttling wich was causing a loss of performance i tried everything i could to fix it but nothing had any real benefit so i decided to go for this and i'm extremely glad i did! fitting it to the pcb was extremely simple it has pre applied thermal pad and paste so it's ready to go straight on after cleaning up your card. It looks amazing and due to the size of the founders edition cards it drastically reduces the space it takes up in your case making your extremely powerful gpu look tiny. The rgb works great on it i don't have mine on a riser cable as i prefer the normal method of mounting gpu's so i can only speak for how it looks like when mounted normally. My vram hits 74 max now so i dropped 38c on the vram temps and my core will hit mid 50's normally but on warmer days that has went into 60's but still very low compared to the original cooling performance. If you want to spend that much on a gpu doing this is only likely to extend it's lifespan and if like me your vram temps are dangerously high then this definitely is the way to go i have zero regrets.

It has a lot of thermal inertia, because it's really heavy. It could easily be as heavy as an air cooling solution. temps in my rig never go over 45(GPU) and 60 (HOT SPOT / VRMs) using a single 430mm radiator on the front + Corsair pump/reservoir combo.it also has addresssableLEDs which I don't find much useful except for them to change colour based on the temperature using iCue software.

I bought this one vbut the minuse is that the card doesint fit my rtx 3090 card I bought it and tested it didint work so so I posted it back I loked that it sead it would fit mine but mine is gygabyte rtx 3090 but it didin fit becouse theres no description for it