I made my OWN 2080Ti Waterblock and the results are INSANE!

The Thrill of Custom Watercooling: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a 79-80 XE with an EK A240 Radiator and Vardar Fans.

As we begin our journey into custom watercooling, it's essential to remember that leaks can happen, even with the best precautions. To mitigate this risk, we'll be working with a quick disconnect to ensure that our system is safely powered off in case of any unexpected issues. The 79-80 XE on an X299 Dark motherboard is an excellent candidate for custom watercooling, and we're excited to see how our setup performs.

We've hooked up the EK A240 radiator to our trusty EK pump, which will provide us with a reliable cooling solution. With the Vardar fans set to 70% capacity, they're providing more than enough airflow to keep our GPU cool. The fans are not even running at their maximum potential yet, and we've only just begun the testing process.

The first boot is nothing short of miraculous – no leaks, no issues whatsoever. We'll be monitoring the system closely to ensure that everything remains stable throughout our tests. As we power on the system, we're keeping a close eye on the VRMs (Voltage Regulator Modules) to see if they're staying cool enough. The lower voltage usage is giving us better frequency stability, which is essential for optimal performance.

With the testing underway, we've seen some impressive results so far. In our first test, we were able to reach 20,120 in some of the scenes inside Time Spy Extreme. This is a significant improvement over our previous air-cooled results, and it's clear that our custom watercooling setup is delivering exceptional performance.

We took a closer look at the Time Spy Extreme results, and we're thrilled to see that our graphics score has increased by an impressive 35 points – from 75,54 to a staggering 77,29. This is a testament to the effectiveness of our custom watercooling solution, which has allowed us to extract more performance from our GPU.

The cooling solution is indeed working wonders. We've attached a chiller unit to the radiator, and it's been keeping everything running smoothly. The temperature readings are incredibly low – even the back plate on the case is cool to the touch. We're not pushing the system too hard just yet, but it's clear that our custom watercooling setup has already proven itself.

We decided to run one more test for good measure, tweaking the memory speed and watching as the max temp dropped even further – a mere 29 C under load. This resulted in a graphics score of 77,24 and an 8089, which is just three points shy of our previous best. While we didn't quite reach the top spot, it's clear that our setup has made significant strides.

As we wrap up our testing, we can't help but feel a sense of accomplishment. Custom watercooling might seem intimidating at first, but with the right parts and a bit of know-how, it's possible to achieve incredible results. We're grateful for the opportunity to share our experience with you and hope that it inspires others to explore the world of custom watercooling.

Finally, we'd like to take this chance to tease our upcoming fall merchandise drop. New logos are in the works, and we can't wait to share them with you. Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, thanks for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou know here at JSU cents we've done some experiments that I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm pretty proud of but you know none of those really compared to what I think we're gonna achieve today MSI brings ultra-thin gaming to life at their new GS 65 stealth the four point nine millimeter bezel 144 Hertz 1080p panel nvidia graphics and 8th gen intel cpus make the new GS 65 self a true powerhouse with a small footprint find out more and by following the link in the description below so it's obviously our TX season and I'm trying to think of ways to make it exciting and interesting on what is gonna be probably pretty repetitive content from all of your favorite tech youtubers we've all got different perspectives on the cards but you know what I've never done around here is actually taking on my own custom attempt at water blocking or water cooling whatever you want to call it a card that wasn't designed for it so what we have right here is the GeForce art yet it's almost a GTX RDX the RDX 2080 from EVGA is a reference PCB based on the exact you know design that is sent over from Nvidia what we have right here in front of me is actually a completely disassembled 20/80 Ti so the same card I'm just showing you this you can see what it looked like before hand in case you've never seen it massive cooler on there which does a great job at keeping the the V RMS and the core extremely cool we've got a heat plate right here for the V RMS thermal pads on both sides here's the cooler I mean this thing just looks like a cruise ship it's so damn big and then here is the bare PCB of our TX but you know there's another youtuber who does similar stuff to these custom cooling configs that being mr. Steve from gamers Nexus now Steve has been known to take a iOS and do custom cooling and rig those up and very jerry-rigged just to see what happens when you get them on water usually leaves the PCB or another piece of you but the vrm is exposed with air cooling which he says is perfectly fine and I agree because the thermal limits of them are these are extremely efficient design that also cools very well by two blasting them with air we're gonna take things a step farther today I am going to be doing a custom loop and if all goes according to plan we will also have water-cooled VRMs by the end of this video now one of the reasons I'm using the EVGA card is because I can actually retain this cooling plate which will give me better heat dissipation from the VRMs because of all of these thermal pads I think they've clearly learned from their lesson in the past with the prm's overheating on the 1080 and 1080 TI cards but there's this just it's kind of a stroke of luck I think because when everything is in place here I push this down and Manas does that stick good I mean that's I'm picking it up you can see that the actual adhesion of the thermal pads is what's holding the what entire weight of the card this right here if you don't recall is my like $20 water block I should was like 17 dollars I got off Amazon it's copper it doesn't have an inlet or outlet it's pretty much just a base plate with all of the high fin densities milled into it these are the screws right here that the back plate screws into so the back plate screws through here through the back plate and holds everything down against the PCB sandwich Inge the cooling plate and the back plate together on the PCB so that means that this plate is going to be mounted to the card now I got really lucky that this fits in here and it touches the die and is only about a millimeter off of this backing plate and all of the screws actually line up with these four inner screws to where I can mount this down to the backing plate so I don't have to use screws passing up through the PCB I don't have to worry about measuring and having it be tilted so the first thing I'm gonna do is actually I'm gonna put half of this back together I'm gonna put the back plate back on here and screw it all down because doing it this way also means that I get to retain all of this cooling from the back plate now the reason why I'm not using the screws that come with the block and have the spring load on there is they're a different diameter than the ones I'm screwing down onto right here that would have made things just so much easier but in the spirit of modding and thank God EVGA actually makes this the threading on these these nuts like all the way through and just partially otherwise I would be able to screw in from this side because this is normally designed to screw in from the backside but this is actually starting to look entirely too professional in my opinion like this looks like it was almost intended for this now this doesn't have to be held on like super tight we just need to keep it from moving around so as soon as I get all four in there then I'm gonna I'm gonna snuggle up now the reason why I'm not using the EK water blocks or something like that is because this plate that comes with this water block had more adjustment so that's a big oblong hole instead of a stunt regular round hole so the EK water blocks was too far apart and so it didn't allow me to actually be able to use that and the EK water block also would have probably not fit inside the square allowing me to still use the plate like I wanted so this is I think we're looking okay here but look at that so technically that's now a water-cooled core right there and I I think this looks pretty damn good if I don't say so myself alright now the other thing I really want to do here and I mentioned it the start of this video is I want to actively cool the VRMs so I've got this right here this was actually for a gigabyte x99 motherboard and this was the vrm cooling kit chipset and cooling but I've still got this block which was never used for anything and if you actually look at the diameter of it it hangs over the side to where I can actually access those screw holes so I'm thinking about trying to mount this down somehow like this but have to come up with some sort of a mounting mechanism now that can screw into those holes and hold this in place alright so this is actually coming together pretty well so this is one of the reservoir mounts that come with the singularity computer's reservoir kits and they sent me kind of a bunch of them and this was actually perfect so it matches it's gonna be my back strap right here to hold this on and the hole spacing was actually perfect between not the outermost holes or the innermost holes the bottom hole and then the inner hole there so it's gonna stick up a little higher on the top of the card I'm perfectly okay with that though that should still clear anything on the motherboard that's my only concern now is where this hangs down will it clear the mother so I guess I should get a motherboard now okay miss your oh yeah there's lots of room there normally this touches the VRMs directly on a motherboard so it uses a thermal pad but because we are now going metal to metal with a heat spreader here that's conducting heat through a thermal pad already I am hoping that there will be enough thermal cover you know conductivity I mean doing it this way and I'm gonna pre spread it on here because I don't want it to squish out the sides so I'm hoping we'll get enough thermal conductivity this way so that it will be beneficial I'm also gonna be placing it right on top of where the actual VRMs are now if you look carefully in here I know if Phil can get in there you can see the gray thermal pad although the heat will spread throughout this whole heat plate obviously that's the only surface area I have to deal with so I'm gonna put that directly on top of it that way it can get a more direct path of cooling I'm hoping that that's gonna be enough to get the job done suckers on there tight - they ain't going anywhere so here's our remember this from one of our other tests I remember which one we did maybe was loop order it was still put together so here's what we're gonna do you can see we got really lucky here though the vrm cooler barely clears the motherboard right there we got super super lucky so there is that I'm gonna go ahead and fill this right now without powering on the system because if we do have any leaks which I don't anticipate but if we did have any leaks I don't want this powered on obviously this is a 79 80 XE on an X 299 dark motherboard definitely don't want to have to deal with that so quick disconnect to the rescue well would you look at that alright here we go first boot nothing's dripping nothing's leaking gonna hooked up to our ek a 240 radiator here with our ek pump that's currently running all right fingers crossed that we get video need video 92 D 5 we should be getting video yeah let's see if any of this matters now because we're keeping the vrm cooler we are overall seeing less voltage on here so we're sitting at 1019 millivolt or now or 1 millivolt exact or 1 volt exactly we seem to spend more time at exactly 1 volt or slightly below which is giving us a better frequency right here because the VRMs are staying cooler but what we're able to see here on some of the tests some of the scenes inside of this test this will go all the way up to 20 120 115 and even bounce off 2130 all right so does 2130 we saw it for a minute and the thing is we couldn't even get close to that on air and these fans are not even running a hundred percent right now I've got them set to 70 percent they are Vardar fans on a 240 red more than enough cooling for this GPU so here's the time spy extreme results we got a 75 89 graphics score my previous best score was a 75 54 so minute so many of these are Ryan's us wear so we just gained another 35 points graphic scorer on time spy extreme that's a lot for extreme let me play this a little bit more see if we can't get to go just a little bit farther I may or may not hook the air conditioner up to this I don't think I'm going to alright so I flipped around the fans to their pool instead of push and we're just going to set the radiator inside of here okay so the ACS hooked up to it we are currently idling at 15 C the cooling plate on here that's touching the VRM that my water block is attached to this is clearly working it is cold it is freakishly cold to the touch the back plate is cold this is now a chiller unit and yes we are aware that condensation is the byproduct of going below ambient temperature but we are not anywhere near far enough below ambient temperature for condensation or do or dew point or any of that scientific mumbo-jumbo to be a problem so a this makes you uncomfortable then don't do it okay clearly it's working because here we go we got a 7720 to score that's almost 300 points higher than the the Paul's hardware gamers Nexus beef that we were on the phone with on Twitter 8080 for total score I'm think this beat Linus but you can see we boosted all the way up to 2190 max temp under load 30 C under load no idea that V RMS are but they're cold let's go ahead and compare it online let's see what we ended up I might try one more test Oh No eight points behind Linus no his graphics score was a seven thousand seven thirty-one and mine was a seven thousand seven twenty two I hate you so much alright one more test okay so we did one more test just for the heck of it playing with memory speed just a little bit max temp on this room was 29 C so that gave us a 77 24 and an 8089 I'm not sure if that's better than our last score let's take a look oh we're three behind - we were like eight before now it's three whatever I think it's safe to say with the exception of kingpin and a little little friendly beef going on between Paul and Steve and I clearly all you needs an AC and a custom water block made by the scrap parts laying around on the shelf alright guys Steve has probably already put up his video regarding the AI oh he put on his card make sure you guys check that out he's planning on doing some shunt mods I believe so definitely worth watching head on over to gamers Nexus again all this is in good fun and why the heck not so we're gonna go guys thanks for watching and as always we'll see you in the next one don't feel a little sneak peek to add some fall merch that's gonna be dropping here very soon new logos - this is just a old logo but keep an eye on the merch door alright now we can go right nowyou know here at JSU cents we've done some experiments that I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm pretty proud of but you know none of those really compared to what I think we're gonna achieve today MSI brings ultra-thin gaming to life at their new GS 65 stealth the four point nine millimeter bezel 144 Hertz 1080p panel nvidia graphics and 8th gen intel cpus make the new GS 65 self a true powerhouse with a small footprint find out more and by following the link in the description below so it's obviously our TX season and I'm trying to think of ways to make it exciting and interesting on what is gonna be probably pretty repetitive content from all of your favorite tech youtubers we've all got different perspectives on the cards but you know what I've never done around here is actually taking on my own custom attempt at water blocking or water cooling whatever you want to call it a card that wasn't designed for it so what we have right here is the GeForce art yet it's almost a GTX RDX the RDX 2080 from EVGA is a reference PCB based on the exact you know design that is sent over from Nvidia what we have right here in front of me is actually a completely disassembled 20/80 Ti so the same card I'm just showing you this you can see what it looked like before hand in case you've never seen it massive cooler on there which does a great job at keeping the the V RMS and the core extremely cool we've got a heat plate right here for the V RMS thermal pads on both sides here's the cooler I mean this thing just looks like a cruise ship it's so damn big and then here is the bare PCB of our TX but you know there's another youtuber who does similar stuff to these custom cooling configs that being mr. Steve from gamers Nexus now Steve has been known to take a iOS and do custom cooling and rig those up and very jerry-rigged just to see what happens when you get them on water usually leaves the PCB or another piece of you but the vrm is exposed with air cooling which he says is perfectly fine and I agree because the thermal limits of them are these are extremely efficient design that also cools very well by two blasting them with air we're gonna take things a step farther today I am going to be doing a custom loop and if all goes according to plan we will also have water-cooled VRMs by the end of this video now one of the reasons I'm using the EVGA card is because I can actually retain this cooling plate which will give me better heat dissipation from the VRMs because of all of these thermal pads I think they've clearly learned from their lesson in the past with the prm's overheating on the 1080 and 1080 TI cards but there's this just it's kind of a stroke of luck I think because when everything is in place here I push this down and Manas does that stick good I mean that's I'm picking it up you can see that the actual adhesion of the thermal pads is what's holding the what entire weight of the card this right here if you don't recall is my like $20 water block I should was like 17 dollars I got off Amazon it's copper it doesn't have an inlet or outlet it's pretty much just a base plate with all of the high fin densities milled into it these are the screws right here that the back plate screws into so the back plate screws through here through the back plate and holds everything down against the PCB sandwich Inge the cooling plate and the back plate together on the PCB so that means that this plate is going to be mounted to the card now I got really lucky that this fits in here and it touches the die and is only about a millimeter off of this backing plate and all of the screws actually line up with these four inner screws to where I can mount this down to the backing plate so I don't have to use screws passing up through the PCB I don't have to worry about measuring and having it be tilted so the first thing I'm gonna do is actually I'm gonna put half of this back together I'm gonna put the back plate back on here and screw it all down because doing it this way also means that I get to retain all of this cooling from the back plate now the reason why I'm not using the screws that come with the block and have the spring load on there is they're a different diameter than the ones I'm screwing down onto right here that would have made things just so much easier but in the spirit of modding and thank God EVGA actually makes this the threading on these these nuts like all the way through and just partially otherwise I would be able to screw in from this side because this is normally designed to screw in from the backside but this is actually starting to look entirely too professional in my opinion like this looks like it was almost intended for this now this doesn't have to be held on like super tight we just need to keep it from moving around so as soon as I get all four in there then I'm gonna I'm gonna snuggle up now the reason why I'm not using the EK water blocks or something like that is because this plate that comes with this water block had more adjustment so that's a big oblong hole instead of a stunt regular round hole so the EK water blocks was too far apart and so it didn't allow me to actually be able to use that and the EK water block also would have probably not fit inside the square allowing me to still use the plate like I wanted so this is I think we're looking okay here but look at that so technically that's now a water-cooled core right there and I I think this looks pretty damn good if I don't say so myself alright now the other thing I really want to do here and I mentioned it the start of this video is I want to actively cool the VRMs so I've got this right here this was actually for a gigabyte x99 motherboard and this was the vrm cooling kit chipset and cooling but I've still got this block which was never used for anything and if you actually look at the diameter of it it hangs over the side to where I can actually access those screw holes so I'm thinking about trying to mount this down somehow like this but have to come up with some sort of a mounting mechanism now that can screw into those holes and hold this in place alright so this is actually coming together pretty well so this is one of the reservoir mounts that come with the singularity computer's reservoir kits and they sent me kind of a bunch of them and this was actually perfect so it matches it's gonna be my back strap right here to hold this on and the hole spacing was actually perfect between not the outermost holes or the innermost holes the bottom hole and then the inner hole there so it's gonna stick up a little higher on the top of the card I'm perfectly okay with that though that should still clear anything on the motherboard that's my only concern now is where this hangs down will it clear the mother so I guess I should get a motherboard now okay miss your oh yeah there's lots of room there normally this touches the VRMs directly on a motherboard so it uses a thermal pad but because we are now going metal to metal with a heat spreader here that's conducting heat through a thermal pad already I am hoping that there will be enough thermal cover you know conductivity I mean doing it this way and I'm gonna pre spread it on here because I don't want it to squish out the sides so I'm hoping we'll get enough thermal conductivity this way so that it will be beneficial I'm also gonna be placing it right on top of where the actual VRMs are now if you look carefully in here I know if Phil can get in there you can see the gray thermal pad although the heat will spread throughout this whole heat plate obviously that's the only surface area I have to deal with so I'm gonna put that directly on top of it that way it can get a more direct path of cooling I'm hoping that that's gonna be enough to get the job done suckers on there tight - they ain't going anywhere so here's our remember this from one of our other tests I remember which one we did maybe was loop order it was still put together so here's what we're gonna do you can see we got really lucky here though the vrm cooler barely clears the motherboard right there we got super super lucky so there is that I'm gonna go ahead and fill this right now without powering on the system because if we do have any leaks which I don't anticipate but if we did have any leaks I don't want this powered on obviously this is a 79 80 XE on an X 299 dark motherboard definitely don't want to have to deal with that so quick disconnect to the rescue well would you look at that alright here we go first boot nothing's dripping nothing's leaking gonna hooked up to our ek a 240 radiator here with our ek pump that's currently running all right fingers crossed that we get video need video 92 D 5 we should be getting video yeah let's see if any of this matters now because we're keeping the vrm cooler we are overall seeing less voltage on here so we're sitting at 1019 millivolt or now or 1 millivolt exact or 1 volt exactly we seem to spend more time at exactly 1 volt or slightly below which is giving us a better frequency right here because the VRMs are staying cooler but what we're able to see here on some of the tests some of the scenes inside of this test this will go all the way up to 20 120 115 and even bounce off 2130 all right so does 2130 we saw it for a minute and the thing is we couldn't even get close to that on air and these fans are not even running a hundred percent right now I've got them set to 70 percent they are Vardar fans on a 240 red more than enough cooling for this GPU so here's the time spy extreme results we got a 75 89 graphics score my previous best score was a 75 54 so minute so many of these are Ryan's us wear so we just gained another 35 points graphic scorer on time spy extreme that's a lot for extreme let me play this a little bit more see if we can't get to go just a little bit farther I may or may not hook the air conditioner up to this I don't think I'm going to alright so I flipped around the fans to their pool instead of push and we're just going to set the radiator inside of here okay so the ACS hooked up to it we are currently idling at 15 C the cooling plate on here that's touching the VRM that my water block is attached to this is clearly working it is cold it is freakishly cold to the touch the back plate is cold this is now a chiller unit and yes we are aware that condensation is the byproduct of going below ambient temperature but we are not anywhere near far enough below ambient temperature for condensation or do or dew point or any of that scientific mumbo-jumbo to be a problem so a this makes you uncomfortable then don't do it okay clearly it's working because here we go we got a 7720 to score that's almost 300 points higher than the the Paul's hardware gamers Nexus beef that we were on the phone with on Twitter 8080 for total score I'm think this beat Linus but you can see we boosted all the way up to 2190 max temp under load 30 C under load no idea that V RMS are but they're cold let's go ahead and compare it online let's see what we ended up I might try one more test Oh No eight points behind Linus no his graphics score was a seven thousand seven thirty-one and mine was a seven thousand seven twenty two I hate you so much alright one more test okay so we did one more test just for the heck of it playing with memory speed just a little bit max temp on this room was 29 C so that gave us a 77 24 and an 8089 I'm not sure if that's better than our last score let's take a look oh we're three behind - we were like eight before now it's three whatever I think it's safe to say with the exception of kingpin and a little little friendly beef going on between Paul and Steve and I clearly all you needs an AC and a custom water block made by the scrap parts laying around on the shelf alright guys Steve has probably already put up his video regarding the AI oh he put on his card make sure you guys check that out he's planning on doing some shunt mods I believe so definitely worth watching head on over to gamers Nexus again all this is in good fun and why the heck not so we're gonna go guys thanks for watching and as always we'll see you in the next one don't feel a little sneak peek to add some fall merch that's gonna be dropping here very soon new logos - this is just a old logo but keep an eye on the merch door alright now we can go right now\n"