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Best/easiet EVGA 3080 ti FTW/5600X Water block/AIO?

3.6K views 7 replies 3 participants last post by  PotatoVonEpicus  
#1 ·
I was really wanting the actual type of water block EVGA sells attached to their cards the "EVGA Hydro Copper Waterblock."

I wish I could find it sold separately as the 2080's have! Alas, I cannot!

Does anyone know where to acquire one? Or, where to acquire one as cool and awesome/easy?
Would be nice to have like an AIO water block for the GPU?

I just really hate to lose all of the RGB when putting on a water block... it's so pretty!!

I'm completely new to water-cooling, but this GPU/CPU runs a bit hot. I'm wanting to water cool both my 3080 ti FTW EVGA and my 5600x.

Best recommendations for an AIO for the 5600x?
Any advice is appreciated!

Gratzee.
 
#2 ·
5600x should be really easy to cool, if you don't plan on upgrading to higher core count CPU for that same socket I would suggest taking easier route of getting decent air cooler. Depending on space in the case you could also get some AIO, I don't recommend anything specific because that CPU really doesn't need that much cooling.

As for GPU I am not sure if there are AIOs for 3080 Ti, I assume yes. And I also assume you don't want to do full water loop for both GPU and CPU.

Something like NZXT Kraken should be a thing for 3000 series. Slapping AIO on GPU and decent air cooler on the CPU is what I would do in this situation, if there is enough space in the case you can slap AIOs on both.
 
#3 ·
You could get the below AIO for the GPU and add any CPU block to it. I have the alphacool block on my 3090FTW in a loop and the core/memory dont go over 50c gaming. I also had a cheap alphacool XPX block on my 12900k, and it worked just as well as my expensive velocity2 CPU block...

 
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#7 ·
As potatovonepic stated, there really isn't a need to add a cpu block to the 5600X, I believe its only a 65w processor. I just mentioned that AIO above as its a good GPU block and expandable to include a cpu block. TBH, if you just want to cool the 3080ti, I would just get one of the hybrid kits from EVGA if available. I had one in the past and it cooled the gpu core really good, except for the vram on the back side obviously. But you don't have to worry about that with the 3080ti. The only problem is that they don't appear to be in stock...