Is there any way whatsoever to revive your 2080ti? Or is it well and truly dead?
2080 Ti = DEAD - EK's Fault
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Is there any way whatsoever to revive your 2080ti? Or is it well and truly dead?
WYP
News Guru
It also helps that water cooling companies mostly send samples to people for showpiece builds, rather than actual reviewers for a critical analysis.
Dead as a donut, I can see which components fried by looking at the inside of the backplate:
AlienALX
Well-known member
I really do hope it wasnt my fittings that caused this!
Nope. The loop over heated, and exploded from pressure because the EK crap wasn't doing its job.
Sure a soft fitting may have held out longer, but that pressure has to go somewhere. The GPU WB would have leaked.
I pressure tested loads of stuff quite brutally once. I found that the GPU block would leak the fastest, because of the large O ring.
They're made to hold about 0.3 bar, IIRC. Anything over that? they are designed to let the pressure out.
I've seen a lot of hard line fittings blow out because of pressure. That was why I avoided it in the first place, but then soon realised you really do need to monitor the coolant temp. Obviously you can't monitor the internal pressure, but air will expand like a biyatch when its hot. And there's practically no way of getting rid of that.
All you can do is fit a valve like I have, somewhere where there is no hardware. So if she blows? at least it won't be all over your electronics. What I do find odd, however, is that the coolant caused a short. It absolutely shouldn't have, at all.
I've literally doused my components by accident before whilst they were on and have never seen any damage. Ever. It shouldn't be conductive, especially when it was that fresh.
But yeah, THE most important temp in a water cooled rig is the coolant temp. Once it goes over a certain temp it will expand like you wouldn't believe.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I never like any hardware companies software tbh. Always crap.
Afterburner is the only exception.
Interesting part is that afterburner is made in collaboration with Johnnyguru over at guru3d. A true enthusiast.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Which is practically afterburner after EVGA were caught red handed using code from AB
So after some long chats with EK's Support team they finally have admitted that their software is not stable. The exact words from EK were "The software is somewhere between Beta and Final release".
I asked why their were not mentioning this on the product page as I would have never bought it if I had known it was still in early development (it is actually being developed by a third party company), they did not answer but said stable release should arrive around summer time.
In their last message they told me to open an RMA ticket and send in my EK Loop Connect, the fried backplate and the dead 2080ti card, if they confirm that the software is faulty they will replace the 2080ti.
DHL are picking up today, fingers crossed I might end up with a new 2080ti.
I'll keep you updated
I asked why their were not mentioning this on the product page as I would have never bought it if I had known it was still in early development (it is actually being developed by a third party company), they did not answer but said stable release should arrive around summer time.
In their last message they told me to open an RMA ticket and send in my EK Loop Connect, the fried backplate and the dead 2080ti card, if they confirm that the software is faulty they will replace the 2080ti.
DHL are picking up today, fingers crossed I might end up with a new 2080ti.
I'll keep you updated
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Well ain't going to EVGA ever again.
Zotac cards just keep looking better and better.
Zotac cards just keep looking better and better.
I'd take Zotac over EVGA on cost alone.
Zotac amp extreme cards are monsters and still cheaper than the other top end stuff.
trawetSluaP
Member
I'll always go EVGA for their customer service and purchasable extended warranties, the only thing that lets them down at the moment is their ugly AF cards imo.
Zotac are pretty decent. While EVGA are the best for CS, I wouldnt pool all my chips into just that one fact. Do I want to pay over market price just for the service? maybe. But it depends on how much. Kingpin for example is so over inflated its not worth it.
To be honest, Palit is a good choice for me until recently. Cheapest reference cards on the market, good high end factory clocked cards and still under otheres of the same price range. And their service is pretty good.
However, Zotac is a favourite of mine now. Their cards look good too.
trawetSluaP
Member
Oh yeah would never get a Kingpin.
I normally go as close to ref as possible as water cool my GPU.
AlienALX
Well-known member
To be fair it is not designed for people like us. At all. It costs £500 more than any other 2080Ti. However, there are reasons for that.
The sinks are all solid copper. Far more expensive than any other material. The PCB has every single trace and connection gold plated.
It has a 240mm AIO on and two 120mm fans. I could go on, but I am sure you are getting the gist. Add to that the OLED screen, BTW.
Is it worth buying? no. However, does it justify the cost given how much they put into it? I would say yes. Will it go faster than any other 2080Ti? at stock I would doubt that. However, this is an A GPU die and it's binned. So get it under LN2 and it will set records. Already has.
I weighed up blocking a 2080Ti, then building a loop for it and the CPU and etc. In the end I saved money by picking the Kingpin and a 240mm cooler for the CPU. And in essence it does exactly the same thing as my loop in my TR rig.
I also know that it's over built to absurdity levels and thus should last a good few years in the very least. I've had a few GPUs fail on air, never had one fail under water.
trawetSluaP
Member
You say binned but I've seen FTW3s an XCs clock higher than KPs under normal cooling.
With the silicon lottery as it is it doesn't justify the cost imo but then the KP isn't for the average user.
With the silicon lottery as it is it doesn't justify the cost imo but then the KP isn't for the average user.
