I guess it's going to come down to how the board is actually made. Power stages for gpu and memory? Some talk of how much cooling it can deliver over the stock solutions would be good information to have also. I mean it's an alphacool brand, so I have no doubt it'll be good, but noting truly stated as to what's to be expected.

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I guess it's going to come down to how the board is actually made. Power stages for gpu and memory? Some talk of how much cooling it can deliver over the stock solutions would be good information to have also. I mean it's an alphacool brand, so I have no doubt it'll be good, but noting truly stated as to what's to be expected.

Hi there How much cooling it can deliver, depending on your loop and ambient ,with single radiator 360mm I would suspect 50-55°C in fairly normal ambient, with something like 2*360mm radiators I would suspect around 38-45°C in best case Alphacool RTX 3080/3090 waterblocks seems performing quite good this generation, I still wait on Aquacomputer Kryographics or Heatkiller Optimus is nice but just not available here in UK or EU and therefore if I would import here it will cost me close to £300 and maybe more I don't think will be better than Asus RTX 3090 Strix OC or FTW3 in therms of OC or power delivery or stages, power limit BIOS etc Hope this helps Thanks, Jura

if i was going Nvidia (again) this time round, i would buy this in a nanosecond

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Hi there How much cooling it can deliver, depending on your loop and ambient ,with single radiator 360mm I would suspect 50-55°C in fairly normal ambient, with something like 2*360mm radiators I would suspect around 38-45°C in best case Alphacool RTX 3080/3090 waterblocks seems performing quite good this generation, I still wait on Aquacomputer Kryographics or Heatkiller Optimus is nice but just not available here in UK or EU and therefore if I would import here it will cost me close to £300 and maybe more I don't think will be better than Asus RTX 3090 Strix OC or FTW3 in therms of OC or power delivery or stages, power limit BIOS etc Hope this helps Thanks, Jura

Thanks for the info brotha man. Just scored my 3090 EVGA FTW3 ULTRA the other day. Looking at getting it in this weekend and also have an Optimus block coming by the end of the month as well. Should be enough time to know whether or not I am to be keeping the card before ripping it apart. Most I've ever paid for either a card or a block, so here's to hoping for crazy good things. Currently have four 580 rads and two 360 rads in my DeskStar, so I hope to have better cooling than that of my 2080Ti. That card never saw temps higher than 44C.