Alphacool Eiswolf 2 AIO for EVGA 3080Ti FTW3.
Greetings, Alphacool. I got a question regarding the above mentioned AIO that I purchased recently. I would appreciate your comment if you’ve had similar experience in terms of the solution.
I’ve installed the waterblock 3 times this far, following the manual strictly. It’s 1mm thermal pads at the front side of the card I got issue with. I’m using Gelid Ultimate 1mm pads. And it’s only coils that obtain the block’s surface contact. The rest of the parts to be cooled - mosfets, video memory-they cannot achieve the contact. So I got memory temperature that’s higher than stock air cooler provides. The footprint that’s left at the pads-it’s only coils. And the waterblock as well as the backplate are tightened hard enough. I’ve tried to replace coils pads with thin layer of the thermal grease, but didn’t get any temperatures improvement. Memory temperature’s skyrocketed once it’s loaded with intense gaming workload.
What would you suggest? Trying thicker pads for video memory and mosfets? I didn’t expect that such a respectable watercooling parts manufacturer as Alphacool could create such a headache “out-of-the-box”
With respect,
Andrey.
Greetings, Alphacool. I got a question regarding the above mentioned AIO that I purchased recently. I would appreciate your comment if you’ve had similar experience in terms of the solution.
I’ve installed the waterblock 3 times this far, following the manual strictly. It’s 1mm thermal pads at the front side of the card I got issue with. I’m using Gelid Ultimate 1mm pads. And it’s only coils that obtain the block’s surface contact. The rest of the parts to be cooled - mosfets, video memory-they cannot achieve the contact. So I got memory temperature that’s higher than stock air cooler provides. The footprint that’s left at the pads-it’s only coils. And the waterblock as well as the backplate are tightened hard enough. I’ve tried to replace coils pads with thin layer of the thermal grease, but didn’t get any temperatures improvement. Memory temperature’s skyrocketed once it’s loaded with intense gaming workload.
What would you suggest? Trying thicker pads for video memory and mosfets? I didn’t expect that such a respectable watercooling parts manufacturer as Alphacool could create such a headache “out-of-the-box”
With respect,
Andrey.