[SOLVED] where can i buy the Zotac 980 Ti AMP! cooler only?

[MaxTehLegend]

ive recently found out that the zotac 980 Ti AMP cooler can fit on my card as they share the exact PCB and length. i was wondering where i could buy one in the UK?

zotac AMP! PCB:

EVGA SC+ ACX 2.0+ PCB:

 

[Eximo]

No where? Not exactly sold separately unless you buy it off someone who took it off a card.

If you want better cooling, water cool. You could also buy the EVGA hybrid cooler if you don't want to take it that far. Or the NZXT G10 bracket and the asetek style all-in-one of your choice.

Or get an actual aftermarket air cooler like the Arctic Accelero series.

 

[MaxTehLegend]

so there isn't a website that sell different company coolers for the 980 Ti? for reference PCB's?.

 

[junkeymonkey]

''You could also buy the EVGA hybrid cooler ''

not for a 900 card you cant unless used on e-bay

your 2ed choices are a bout it and don't for get the corsair h55 [whats used on the MSi/ corsair seahawk cards]


if your card is listed under 980ti

shroud
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/hydro-series-hg10-n980-gpu-liquid-cooling-bracket#

pump

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181029


you can see from here how evga did folks on that pump and a 900 card owners [just one of many post at evga on that issue ]

https://forums.evga.com/Regarding-980ti-hybrid-pump-not-starting-m2642147.aspx#2643491

 

[MaxTehLegend]

whats the best price to performance liquid cooler for GPU's? and where can i find a bracket that looks finished and has LED's and looks good?

 

[Eximo]

You might be able to track down a used/secondhand Zotac cooler on Ebay. No one operates a store for such things. When you think about it, the only group likely to have leftovers would be Zotac themselves. Otherwise it is one cooler per card.

I don't believe any fancy LED all-in-one coolers exist for GPUs. The G10 Bracket with some LED strips perhaps?

 

[junkeymonkey]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-980ti-Hybrid-watercooler-upgrade/262922534766?_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3Dd6913653291f410895b2cad9feefc5bd%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D50%26sd%3D322468570695

that seems to have the old shroud not the newer LED shroud

[shroud only]
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-EVGA-Hybrid-Led-Shroud-100-TC-0999-B9-for-EVGA-GTX-980-980Ti-Titan-X-Maxwell-/322468570695?_trksid=p2385738.m2548.l4275

 

[MaxTehLegend]

You might be able to track down a used/secondhand Zotac cooler on Ebay. No one operates a store for such things. When you think about it, the only group likely to have leftovers would be Zotac themselves. Otherwise it is one cooler per card.

I don't believe any fancy LED all-in-one coolers exist for GPUs. The G10 Bracket with some LED strips perhaps?

the G10 looks so getto and budget looking. it looks like someone did it themselves in the back of a garage. and the EVGA Hybrid cooler looks like a budget reference card. the HG10 N980 on the other hand looks clean and looks like something worth buying. the only complaint is that the top of it has dissapeared. it just look like someone cut off the top in order to put that AIO on the GPU Core. i was hoping for a bracket that looks like the EVGA Hybrid but instead of looking like a reference card, mixing it with the HG10 N980 for the cooler. that would be something worth buying to me. or instead of buying a bracket and liquid cooler, i was hoping for a cooler like the zotac AMP! that i can buy for £10-£20 and just slap that on there and call it a day. instead of buying a overpriced £35 bracket AND a liquid cooler for around £30-£80.

also im in the UK.
and my 980 Ti isn't reference its the EVGA SC+ ACX 2.0+ 980 Ti. so i cant buy the EVGA Hybrid as i would need the reference cooler in order for it to work.

 

[junkeymonkey]

''and the EVGA Hybrid cooler looks like a budget reference card''

that's because they only fit reference PCB type cards and use the reference style fan in the shroud to cool the vrm's

 

[MaxTehLegend]

Eximo.

ive been trying to find someone on Ebay that will sell a 980Ti cooler that has been stripped off the card. the only coolers ive found was an MSI reference cooler which looks GARBAGE and probably cools like me blowing on the card. and the reference cooler for the 980Ti. which isn't as good at cooling as my cooler is.

but if you managed to find someone selling an aftermarket 980Ti cooler on ebay can you link it on this thread? it would be much appreciated

 

[MaxTehLegend]

junkeymonkey

i know that but im just saying that the aesthetics are extremely ugly. for the 900 cards. the EVGA Hybrid for the 10xx series looks OK. still not what im looking for.

 

[junkeymonkey]

who cares a bout looks ?? [lol] it can look like hammered cat crap as long as it throws down on my displays and kicks a bit of butt

I own a 980ti hybrid all I worry about is what displayed on the monitor and performance of that .. in the hot rod biz they have a saying ''being all show and no go '' ????

 

[MaxTehLegend]

junkeymonkey

i care about how it looks because my card already performs like the best. i can clock it at 1551mhz and 4001 on the mem, at 1.23v. temps sitting around 65-70c. all i wanted next was a good looking cooler i can put on there just to make the aesthetics more pleasing. thats all. apart from that. i don't need another cooler. the only reason was just aesthetics.

 

[junkeymonkey]

thing is never was much choice in these coolers to start with for the 900 series options were pretty limited and why I just pulled the trigger on a factory hybrid from evga [with led shroud ] . even from the old 900 card posts at evga you seen a lot of crying over the lack of water coolers and like said unless you find a guy selling a bad card cheap with that zotac cooler on it ??????


''i can clock it at 1551mhz and 4001 on the mem, at 1.23v. temps sitting around 65-70c. all i wanted next was a good looking cooler i can put on there just to make the aesthetics more pleasing''

with that and the temps seems that evga cooler was doing a jam up job ? have you considered just painting it a color or color schemes you may find to your liking ??


[for some examples ? ]
https://forums.evga.com/I-painted-my-GTX-760-white-m2198448.aspx

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/254147-painting-gtx-980-strix/



even like ek did not do too much as well out side a ref pcb board card .

 

[MaxTehLegend]

junkeymonkey

aesthetics are entirely subjective. i just perfer the look on the zotac AMP! or a really beefy card with alot of fans and looks clean and good build quality towards my current cooler, i dont think paint will make me want to change my mind. thats why i wanted to find a way to get one. i just want my card to look beefy with alot of fans and big heatsink. i wanted to look for a website or someone selling coolers for reference PCB 980Ti's. instead i found the reference cooler (looks nice but expensive and bad cooling performance) and AIO coolers with brackets (decent cooling performance, but extremely ugly). and that leaves me with the atric accelero extreme. it is a massive cooler but still manages to look ugly and looks like someone made it with 3 intel coolers and called it a day.

 

[junkeymonkey]

my understanding is the fans go out on them ?? been several post on that or like fans rpm's go crazy .

heres one I answered with some added links ???

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3256837/980ti-amp-extreme-fans-revving-stopping-repeatedly.html

in the end if that's what y ou wanted you should of just bought the zotac .

may try zotac support to see if there able to sell you a cooler from there RMA department or something ??

like said may find a junk card with the right cooler on it cheap at e-bay

anyway good luck on your project..

 

[MaxTehLegend]

a solution is NOT to take mine back or sell it since ive got a really good chip. and im glad that i got the evga sc acx 2.0 980Ti. as its one of the best 980ti's you can get. all i need a different cooler. and i dont JUST mean the zotac AMP! cooler, i mean all different types of triple fan coolers that will fit on a reference PCB.

 

[Eximo]

I've owned several EVGA SC, and they are reference boards, so any cooler that fits a reference 980Ti will fit yours. That is why the Zotac AMP! cooler will fit it, they were both reference designs.

EVGA's custom PCBs start with the Classified and FTW editions (Or Kingpin, for the insane). Zotac's customs are the Extremes.

Arctic also makes Accelero Hybrids. The newer models come with a large heatsink that isn't half bad. I had an old one some years back on some GTX580, they came with loose heatsinks and a pretty terrible plastic shroud with a fan.

The NZXT G10 brackets can actually look decent-ish in the right circumstances. (This particular one would look better with a backplate of some sort)

http://pcpartpicker.com/b/ndBPxr

Really depends on if you are planning to have the card in a tower or desktop orientation.

If you don't like ghetto all-in-one, then water cooling the fun way is your best option.

If you want lighting effects. XSPC Razor waterblocks, which I have three of, are nice. They have a block of acrylic that shines through with provided white LEDs. You can swap those from some RGB LEDS and you would be all set, particularly with the RGB plug fitted on a lot of the Z270 boards.

Custom water cooling all comes down to how much you want to spend. I consider myself in the moderate price bracket. Nothing too extreme, but still hopeless over-priced.

 

[Eximo]

Accelero Hybrid

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7HN5K62290&cm_re=arctic_accelero-_-9SIA7HN5K62290-_-Product

Accelero Extreme IV

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1K64893710&cm_re=arctic_accelero-_-35-186-097-_-Product

Almost want to buy one of these myself, I've seen it a few times, but it looks like a pretty good heatsink: http://www.performance-pcs.com/logisys-dracula-12-heat-pipe-vga-cooler.html#Details

Reminds me of the DCUII on my GTX580. (Which you might be able to find really cheap now that I think about it)

 

[junkeymonkey]

wonder if you could contact a guy like this to see if he still has the stock cooler to sell you ??


[zt-90503-10p]
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zotac-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-6GB-with-Heatkiller-Fullcover-Waterblock-/282410054323?hash=item41c0f372b3:g:fiIAAOSwTM5Y15G8

may have it in a junk box in the closet ??

same part number card your looking for ?

https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-GTX-980Ti-ZT-90503-10P/dp/B0100ZRDL8

 

[MaxTehLegend]

I've owned several EVGA SC, and they are reference boards, so any cooler that fits a reference 980Ti will fit yours. That is why the Zotac AMP! cooler will fit it, they were both reference designs.

EVGA's custom PCBs start with the Classified and FTW editions (Or Kingpin, for the insane). Zotac's customs are the Extremes.

Arctic also makes Accelero Hybrids. The newer models come with a large heatsink that isn't half bad. I had an old one some years back on some GTX580, they came with loose heatsinks and a pretty terrible plastic shroud with a fan.

The NZXT G10 brackets can actually look decent-ish in the right circumstances. (This particular one would look better with a backplate of some sort)

http://pcpartpicker.com/b/ndBPxr

Really depends on if you are planning to have the card in a tower or desktop orientation.

If you don't like ghetto all-in-one, then water cooling the fun way is your best option.

If you want lighting effects. XSPC Razor waterblocks, which I have three of, are nice. They have a block of acrylic that shines through with provided white LEDs. You can swap those from some RGB LEDS and you would be all set, particularly with the RGB plug fitted on a lot of the Z270 boards.

Custom water cooling all comes down to how much you want to spend. I consider myself in the moderate price bracket. Nothing too extreme, but still hopeless over-priced.

thanks for the detailed reply. i have alot of issues that i don't like about water-cooling. they are extremely ridiculously expensive. and if it leaks that's it. GG. high end PC gone forever. i feel somewhat the same with AIO's. the only difference being with AIO's and full on water cooling is that AIO's are ALOT more cheap. but you still have the risks that water cooling has. which is why i would really really prefer to stick with air cooling. air cooling has great performance, ALOT more cheap, and no maintenance. and theres no risks. so air cooling all the way. its just much much much better imo.

 

[MaxTehLegend]

Accelero Hybrid

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7HN5K62290&cm_re=arctic_accelero-_-9SIA7HN5K62290-_-Product

Accelero Extreme IV

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1K64893710&cm_re=arctic_accelero-_-35-186-097-_-Product

Almost want to buy one of these myself, I've seen it a few times, but it looks like a pretty good heatsink: http://www.performance-pcs.com/logisys-dracula-12-heat-pipe-vga-cooler.html#Details

Reminds me of the DCUII on my GTX580. (Which you might be able to find really cheap now that I think about it)

theLogisys dracula 12 heat pipe vga cooler is there any pictures of it put on a 980Ti so that i can see what it would look like?

 

[MaxTehLegend]

wonder if you could contact a guy like this to see if he still has the stock cooler to sell you ??


[zt-90503-10p]
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zotac-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-6GB-with-Heatkiller-Fullcover-Waterblock-/282410054323?hash=item41c0f372b3:g:fiIAAOSwTM5Y15G8

may have it in a junk box in the closet ??

same part number card your looking for ?

https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-GTX-980Ti-ZT-90503-10P/dp/B0100ZRDL8

nice find, ive contacted him about it. but theres 1 issue. im in the uk and it says for Shipping: May not ship to United Kingdom. which is a real piece of ass.

 

[junkeymonkey]

sorry I tried .. and that was the only find I could find to match your need

well good luck .. I bet ship[ping and any vat kicks your butt then waiting for customs ???

 

[MaxTehLegend]

sorry I tried .. and that was the only find I could find to match your need

well good luck .. I bet ship[ping and any vat kicks your butt then waiting for customs ???

yep. thank you for all your help. you've helped me alot.