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24g p5 3989 kr6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() 2) Call EVGA and explain that you were mistaken and see if they'd be willing to take the card back and send you the hybrid version of the card. ![]() Kram36's suggestion would be a great place to start if you decide to go this route, but you'll want to think about whether you want to cool your cpu with your loop (might as well imo), whether you'd want to go with soft, bendable tubes or hard ones that stay put (the hard ones arguably look cooler, but for a first build I'd just go with soft ones if I were you, as the hard ones seem significantly more difficult to work with), and you'll have a few other choices to make that they can help you with. If you do decide to go that route, you can have your loop cool your cpu as well (and these days even other parts, but I wouldn't bother with anything beyond the gpu and cpu on a first-time build). Before making a decision to move forward with that, I'd do some research on the down-sides to custom loops first - maintenance, potentially having to drain the loops and refill them if you have to take out your gpu for some reason (troubleshooting, accessing NVMe drives, etc.), and so forth. Anyway, it sounds like you probably have three options: 1) Build a custom loop, which will require a lot of research on your part first to make sure you understand how to do it, a lot of time to actually build it (and since it sounds like you haven't done so before, it will take you awhile), and a not-insignificant amount of money to buy all the necessary parts. The instructions weren't the best, but with a little help from a gamers nexus teardown vid and the forums here, the install wasn't that difficult. I've built a lot of pc's over the years, but I had never taken a gpu apart and was apprehensive about doing so. ![]() I bought the EVGA 3080 ftw3 ultra when it came out, and then when the hybrid kits were released (the kits consist of just the hybrid cooler itself without the actual GPU card), I ordered one and swapped out the air cooler for the hybrid cooler on my card. But if I had enough money to where I could blow a couple thousand bucks on a pc, and it didn't matter if I ruined it, I'd totally give it a shot because I love tinkering with stuff, building pc's, and learning new things. Personally, I love AIO's and have always figured it would be fun to build a custom loop if I had enough time and money on my hands, but I've never done it, partly because I've always been worried I'd mess something up and would end up spilling and/or leaking water all over everything (I'm a coward). If I'm basing all this off of a bad assumption, please forgive - just trying to give you some useful info in case this is indeed what happened. Not trying to poop on your parade, but if you want to build a custom loop, you have a lot of work cut out for you, and you might decide that it's not what you want to do. But the HC is meant to work with a custom loop (not an AIO) that you have built from scratch yourself. I have a feeling (and this is just a guess) that you bought the HC thinking it would work the way the hybrid cards do - with an AIO (all-in-one, meaning it comes with a radiator attached that you never have to - and never should - take apart to add fluid, clean it, etc.) water cooling loop that it comes with that is supplemented by air cooling driven by a single fan. ![]()
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