EVGA Hydro Copper GTX 1080 Waterblock

[VSG]

The EVGA Hydro Copper GTX 1080 is a full-cover waterblock that offers integrated lighting with no cable management needed, a six-port I/O port manifold, and an aluminum front cover for aesthetics and rigidity alike. It also aims to simplify installation by incorporating pre-installed thermal pads out of the box.

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[ZoneDymo]

Yes ill never let this go:

Bad performance, High price... but at least its easy to install this pos so...8.2 out of 10, yep...

 

[HopelesslyFaithful]

holy crap! an active backplate does that much? Color me suprised...I would have never guessed you could remove that much heat off core that way

I would have called BS without seeing those charts.

 

[techy1]

Yes ill never let this go:

Bad performance, High price... but at least its easy to install this pos so...8.2 out of 10, yep...

yea - I also always wonder about that... but then I remember - that a reviewer (or site) is dependent from pleasing the manufacturers (wich products they are willing to review in future too) - so they better leave good and positive conclusion...
so that taking in mind my review soce transaltion is (for sites that give 10 point soce):
<7.5 = bad product, atrocious value, this product should not even exist.
7.5-8.5 = 90% of competition pruducts out there are both better and have better value.
8.5 - 9.0 = product is adequate
9.0-9.5 = this product might be better (or better value) than competitions offering .
9.5+ = take this - this is a winner.

 

[HopelesslyFaithful]

yea - I also always wonder about that... but then I remember - that a reviewer (or site) is dependent from pleasing the manufacturers (wich products they are willing to review in future too) - so they better leave good and positive conclusion...
so that taking in mind my review soce transaltion is (for sites that give 10 point soce):
<7.5 = bad product, atrocious value, this product should not even exist. Junk and will regret it
7.5-8.5 = 90% of competition pruducts out there are both better and have better value. Does the job but will be disappointed when you learn what you bought.
8.5 - 9.0 = product is adequate Average product and wont regret it but not the "right/best buy"
9.0-9.5 = this product might be better (or better value) than competitions offering . "the good product and cant go wrong"
9.5+ = take this - this is a winner."takes the cake"

I would say this makes a better explation of TPU reviews.

 

[VSG]

Yes ill never let this go:

Bad performance, High price... but at least its easy to install this pos so...8.2 out of 10, yep...

If it does the job promised it automatically gets a 5/10. Easy installation in my books is another 1 point. The rest, though not the best, offered enough to merit the rest (packaging, accessories, lighting). The points lost are 1 for the pricing, and 0.8 for overall performance. I take both absolute and relative performance in mind so as much as this fared worse than others, the actual difference has little impact.

Oh, and check my previous watercooling product review score too (it's a 6/10)

holy crap! an active backplate does that much? Color me suprised...I would have never guessed you could remove that much heat off core that way

I would have called BS without seeing those charts.

You mean VRM temps right? The active backplate doesn't do a whole lot more than any other backplate for the GPU core, but has a heatpipe over the VRMs on the back that is actively cooled. Extreme Rigs did a similar GPU block roundup for AMD Hawaii, and they had similar results too. I too was surprised at how big the difference was.

 

[Jermelescu]

Bad performace + sky high price is a 7 at most, no matter all other aspects

 

[VSG]

Bad performace + sky high price is a 7 at most, no matter all other aspects

Define bad performance. Relatively it is worse, yes, but it is not bad at all in the absolute sense. As far as price goes, unfortunately that is not the most expensive block either which is a sad state of where things are at the moment.

That said, what scoring metric would you use? I am open to suggestions always.

 

[HopelesslyFaithful]

If it does the job promised it automatically gets a 5/10. Easy installation in my books is another 1 point. The rest, though not the best, offered enough to merit the rest (packaging, accessories, lighting). The points lost are 1 for the pricing, and 0.8 for overall performance. I take both absolute and relative performance in mind so as much as this fared worse than others, the actual difference has little impact.

Oh, and check my previous watercooling product review score too (it's a 6/10)



You mean VRM temps right? The active backplate doesn't do a whole lot more than any other backplate for the GPU core, but has a heatpipe over the VRMs on the back that is actively cooled. Extreme Rigs did a similar GPU block roundup for AMD Hawaii, and they had similar results too. I too was surprised at how big the difference was.

look at the chart. The active backplate lowered temps by another 10C

oh oh oh oh oh....I see hahahahahahaahahhahaha My bad :/

 

[infrared]

@VSG The product aside.. I love the in depth thermals and flow testing.. Very thorough!

 

[Vego]

good timing, i just changed my bitspower to phanteks block...

 

[Ubersonic]

Always liked the look of the EVGA blocks. It's kinda comical that they were originally Swiftech blocks with EVGA's logo on them, then EK blocks with EVGA's logo on them designed to look like Swiftech blocks, and now they are unknown brand blocks with EVGA's logo on them designed to look like older Swiftech blocks and they look better than current Swiftech or EK blocks (IMO) haha.

 

[VSG]

Always liked the look of the EVGA blocks. It's kinda comical that they were originally Swiftech blocks with EVGA's logo on them, then EK blocks with EVGA's logo on them designed to look like Swiftech blocks, and now they are unknown brand blocks with EVGA's logo on them designed to look like older Swiftech blocks and they look better than current Swiftech or EK blocks (IMO) haha.

So the way it worked is EVGA had designs that they paid OEMs to make, so they were more EVGA blocks than Swiftech/EK etc always. I actually know the EVGA employee who was responsible for this specific 6-port manifold design, for example. Both EK and Swiftech have different manifold designs and neither use this style of lighting either. Swiftech in fact has changed their block designs a lot since they were OEM for EVGA, so maybe there was some collaboration there though- who knows?

 

[Dammeron]

Finally someone other than me says anything about final notes on TPU. According to the results it's one of the worst blocks available for GTX 1080, and also one of the most expensive, yet "Here's a score of 8,2 for You EVGA, so You won't feel that awful about the sh***y product You released".

What a sweetheart You are VSG.

 

[diatribe]

Thanks. I always look forward to VSG's articles/reviews.

 

[Ruru]

Looks nice, but I wonder what the price would be without EVGA brand..