[SOLVED] Installing a Liquid Cooler for a 3-year-old EVGA 2080Ti Black Edition 11GB ?

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Hello all, I'm noticing that while playing games my GPU fans will increase to 100% after an 1hr or so of gameplay and an hour later the games will freeze, and PC will restart. The graphic card in question is a EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti BLACK EDITION GAMING Video Card, Dual HDB Fans & RGB LED 11G-P4-2281-KR that's still sold brand new on Newegg for $1200: same price for some 4080s and 7900s. However. I do not want to spend that amount of money because it's not time for me to build a new build until 2025. So, I want to preserve this card by installing a liquid cooler on it and wondering if this is the best route and best model to fit. EVGA - EU - Products - EVGA HYBRID Kit for EVGA/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC/XC2/FE, 400-HY-1384-B1, RGB - 400-HY-1384-B1. Also, what type of thermal tape and paste will be needed it this is a good option. Thanks in advance.
 
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bhalton99 said:
Shouldn't everything be overheating if that was the case? Minus the CPU since it's on a liquid cooler but my motherboard and RAM have temps around 36-44. Not saying that you are wrong just wondering that's all. To be honest my GPU didn't start acting up until I started using Topaz AI rendering software around late last November.
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Idle temps don't really matter all that much. What are the temperatures at load? In any case, your configuration is far worse for your GPU than your CPU; the CPU cooler is at least "allied" with some of your exhaust fans.

Rendering really taxes a GPU, so it doesn't seem odd at all that the temperatures suddenly became more or a problem.

And yes, if those are nine exhaust fans on a case that needs...
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To put it in perspective, your 2080ti while good for when you got it, if I understand correctly is now equal to roughly a 6700xt which is around a 300 dollar card give or take. Before you go to the expense of swapping coolers you might consider selling your card as is and replacing it. A friend of mine just sold his 3090 for 750 and bought a 7900 xtx. So far he says he’s happy with it.
 
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ohio_buckeye said:
To put it in perspective, your 2080ti while good for when you got it, if I understand correctly is now equal to roughly a 6700xt which is around a 300 dollar card give or take. Before you go to the expense of swapping coolers you might consider selling your card as is and replacing it. A friend of mine just sold his 3090 for 750 and bought a 7900 xtx. So far he says he’s happy with it.
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Do you know where he got it from? Sapphire is the only brand I'm familiar with, but I want to save a much as I can if possible.
 
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Before spending any money, exactly why is the card heating up? Those cards should be reaching equilibrium in less than 10 minutes ±, so if it's taking that long to overheat then I'd be taking a long look at whether the heatsink is clean and allowing airflow, and whether there's sufficient airflow from the case fans.

It could also be a game issue, Diablo4 is currently cooking high level cards although that's more a Gigabyte issue, it has been reported on others as well. Maybe capping fps or changing other settings can reduce the load. There's multiple lighting and cloud affects that are next to impossible to visually noticed, but can be murder on a gpu.
 
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Karadjgne said:
Before spending any money, exactly why is the card heating up? Those cards should be reaching equilibrium in less than 10 minutes ±, so if it's taking that long to overheat then I'd be taking a long look at whether the heatsink is clean and allowing airflow, and whether there's sufficient airflow from the case fans.

It could also be a game issue, Diablo4 is currently cooking high level cards although that's more a Gigabyte issue, it has been reported on others as well. Maybe capping fps or changing other settings can reduce the load. There's multiple lighting and cloud affects that are next to impossible to visually noticed, but can be murder on a gpu.
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These are my temps reading on idle in windows 11 and took the 2nd screenshot was taken right after launching into the game and shortly after my PC froze again.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bpKRJcNS idle.png
https://pixeldrain.com/u/v613q86j playing pc simulator 2.png

https://pixeldrain.com/l/1D9yXya6 All 2 files
 
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bhalton99 said:
The airflow should be solid, but I guess it is time to take everything down for a good dust blow-out.
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The case should offer solid airflow when configured correctly.

However, at least from the picture, it looks an awful like you've gone with nine exhaust fans and zero intake fans, which, if accurate, is a mindbogglingly awful configuration for a Lian Li 011.
 
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DSzymborski said:
The case should offer solid airflow when configured correctly.

However, at least from the picture, it looks an awful like you've gone with nine exhaust fans and zero intake fans, which, if accurate, is a mindbogglingly awful configuration for a Lian Li 011.
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Shouldn't everything be overheating if that was the case? Minus the CPU since it's on a liquid cooler but my motherboard and RAM have temps around 36-44. Not saying that you are wrong just wondering that's all. To be honest my GPU didn't start acting up until I started using Topaz AI rendering software around late last November.
 
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bhalton99 said:
Shouldn't everything be overheating if that was the case? Minus the CPU since it's on a liquid cooler but my motherboard and RAM have temps around 36-44. Not saying that you are wrong just wondering that's all. To be honest my GPU didn't start acting up until I started using Topaz AI rendering software around late last November.
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Idle temps don't really matter all that much. What are the temperatures at load? In any case, your configuration is far worse for your GPU than your CPU; the CPU cooler is at least "allied" with some of your exhaust fans.

Rendering really taxes a GPU, so it doesn't seem odd at all that the temperatures suddenly became more or a problem.

And yes, if those are nine exhaust fans on a case that needs to be configured a certain way to have good airflow then that ought to be fixed. This is a more traditional way to use a Lian Li 011.

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The idea of airflow is to get cool air to the GPU, not force the GPU to fight it out with nine fans pulling air away from the GPU fans. Having all exhaust fans is, to your GPU, the equivalent of going underwater and trying to use a drinking straw as a snorkel.

As you currently have it configured, your fans are basically ornamental in providing cool air to the GPU. Basically, all the usable air that comes in has to now come in from the small venting on the back of the case.
 
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DSzymborski said:
Idle temps don't really matter all that much. What are the temperatures at load? In any case, your configuration is far worse for your GPU than your CPU; the CPU cooler is at least "allied" with some of your exhaust fans.

Rendering really taxes a GPU, so it doesn't seem odd at all that the temperatures suddenly became more or a problem.

And yes, if those are nine exhaust fans on a case that needs to be configured a certain way to have good airflow then that ought to be fixed. This is a more traditional way to use a Lian Li 011.

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The idea of airflow is to get cool air to the GPU, not force the GPU to fight it out with nine fans pulling air away from the GPU fans. Having all exhaust fans is, to your GPU, the equivalent of going underwater and trying to use a drinking straw as a snorkel.

As you currently have it configured, your fans are basically ornamental in providing cool air to the GPU. Basically, all the usable air that comes in has to now come in from the small venting on the back of the case.
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You probably just saved my dumbass $1200 bro. When I built this 3 years ago (during the high points of covid19) I saw tons of builds like this and did not pay attention. So freaking stupid of me but on the bright side I will take this PC down and correct everything and will dust out my other components in the process. I might even get a 10th fan to go in the rear but that will wait until I upgrade from Ryzen 9 3900x to Ryzen 9 5900x if they're still on sale for $319 by Memorial Day.
 
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bhalton99 said:
You probably just saved my dumbass $1200 bro. When I built this 3 years ago (during the high points of covid19) I saw tons of builds like this and did not pay attention. So freaking stupid of me but on the bright side I will take this PC down and correct everything and will dust out my other components in the process. I might even get a 10th fan to go in the rear but that will wait until I upgrade from Ryzen 9 3900x to Ryzen 9 5900x if they're still on sale for $319 by Memorial Day.
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There could still be something wrong! But flipping some fans and cleaning it out is a free fix to try and free fixes tend to be the best when they work!
 
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A fan works by a pitched blade cutting through air, which leaves a low pressure area behind the blade, and pushes a higher pressure out from underneath. Get enough blades spinning fast enough and that low pressure area extends outwards from the front of the fan.

Nature abhors a vacuum, so air will move from a higher pressure area to fill that low pressure area in front of the fan, that's intake airflow. With all 9 fans as exhaust, the intake side of the fan is creating a massive low pressure area totalling the entire volume of space inside the case. So if you look at the back of the case, those slots are the only place the case has been getting intake air from this whole time, which is why it takes so long for the gpu to overheat.

Very slow starvation. You don't have air Flow at all.

With that case, side intake, top exhaust, bottom intake. Don't need a fan at the rear.
 
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Well, nothing has changed with the GPU even with the drivers updates and correcting the intake of 6 fans. Is my only option. now to get a 7900 xtx or should I continue to look for a EVGA Hybrid Kit and use the radiator as an exhaust for the rear?
 
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What are you considering as high temps? The gpu can go upto @ 83°C before its maxed, the other 2 temps you see in the 95°'s are almost certainly the VRM's and VRam and those are quite normal for running 97% of power target under loads.

So is it still freezing up after an hour of gaming?
 
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Karadjgne said:
What are you considering as high temps? The gpu can go upto @ 83°C before its maxed, the other 2 temps you see in the 95°'s are almost certainly the VRM's and VRam and those are quite normal for running 97% of power target under loads.

So is it still freezing up after an hour of gaming?
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No more freezing so far but will run GPU fans at 80% instead of 90% to be sure.
 
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