RTX 5090 will have liquid metal on founder's edition, but will the 5080, 5070 ti FE's?

[Space Lynx]

This or Kryosheet pre-installed makes a lot of sense to me, basically these cards will never need to be taken apart, even 15 years from now. That is a huge win for us and also for the RMA departments who are annoyed by the re-paste disassembly sometimes.

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[GhostRyder]

This or Kryosheet pre-installed makes a lot of sense to me, basically these cards will never need to be taken apart, even 15 years from now. That is a huge win for us and also for the RMA departments who are annoying by the re-paste disassembly sometimes.

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I have a feeling it will not be the XX70's that get it and even skeptical the XX80's will. This is something that I could get behind for longevity of the card, the only issue I see is you will have to be extra careful when taking the card apart to put a waterblock on (Or similar) in the same way people who repair or MOD a PS5 have to.

 

[Space Lynx]

I have a feeling it will not be the XX70's that get it and even skeptical the XX80's will. This is something that I could get behind for longevity of the card, the only issue I see is you will have to be extra careful when taking the card apart to put a waterblock on (Or similar) in the same way people who repair or MOD a PS5 have to.

people who are doing custom waterblocks will have the skill for this though i assume, most people just want plug n play and not to be bothered. i imagine 90+% of cards sold in FE line don't ever get disassembled, this assures the longevity, i am curious why they went with something like liquid metal over kryosheet though, i highly doubt the temp gains are that much different, maybe 5 celsius better on the liquid metal, but eh more messy and higher production cost i expect

 

[Dr. Dro]

Hard to tell. Reviews are also being sandbagged, January 24 for the 90 but only January 30 embargo lift for the 5080, since the 70 Ti and 70 only come by mid-February those might take another week or two to get reviewed still. I wouldn't buy a FE to waterblock, though. Look at the boards that will use reference design, FE's are very hard to disassemble and service, I expect this to be much of the same.

 

[chrcoluk]

They all should be AIO at this point.

 

[Chomiq]

This or Kryosheet pre-installed makes a lot of sense to me, basically these cards will never need to be taken apart, even 15 years from now.

Well then you run into scenario of - what IF you have to take it apart? Then you're dealing with LM mess.

If 5090 FE proves to be doing well at keeping the GPU cool and LM will prove to be reliable then it should be great for end user. It would be even better if they made it so that fans can be taken out with a single screw without complete disassembly being required. Something that Sapphire does with their pin to pad fans.

 

[Space Lynx]

They all should be AIO at this point.

I disagree, these cards will last 10+ years easily thanks to frame gen and people's backlogs. AIO's will be dead by then.

Well then you run into scenario of - what IF you have to take it apart? Then you're dealing with LM mess.

If 5090 FE proves to be doing well at keeping the GPU cool and LM will prove to be reliable then it should be great for end user. It would be even better if they made it so that fans can be taken out with a single screw without complete disassembly being required. Something that Sapphire does with their pin to pad fans.

Yeah, how vital are the thermal pads on the 5090 FE, and will those dry out after x amount of years... so LM is not the answer to everything, unless that problem has been solved or is no longer an issue (maybe it is or isn't, I am unsure). If that is still a problem, then I wish all gpu's would just ship with kryosheets, like they just make so much sense and cool better than paste according to W1zzard's review of the kryosheet on the 7900 xt