Geez, I didn't know the Founders Edition cards were so small...

I've kinda been outta the loop. The last time I custom watercooled was back when the i7 3930K and GTX 1080 Ti were barely a year old. The AIO solutions so far have been great, and most of the CPU's are efficient enough to cool with a decent air cooler.

However, my last watercooled graphics card, a GTX 1080, was showing it's teeth, so I got this little guy. An RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition with a single slot EK waterblock on it. It's almost the size of a hard drive! Well, maybe two inches shorter. I keep wanting to move away from the 3000 series and onto the 4000 or 5000 series, but the prices are still absurd.


This power hungry little monster packs a punch. Overclock is stable at +180 Core Clock, getting to 2130MHz Boost, and not going above 51C in a 240mm loop. I haven't even touched the memory, yet.

As a continued member of the 3080 club, congrats. I too would like a newer card but it's not in the current budget.

FE cards were really nice for water cooling in smaller cases because the throughhole fan forced them to use a PCB much smaller than the entire length of the card.

My loop has an EVGA factory waterblocked 3080, It's going to be a long while to swap it.