Review on 🌊 Corsair Hydro X Series XG7 RGB Water Block for 30-Series Strix GPUs (3090, 3080 Ti, 3080, 3070 Ti, 3070): Enhanced Cooling and Stunning RGB Lighting by Brad Cash

Some Things to Know. (This is the 3080 FE version)1. There is no paper on the thermal pads to peel off.2. There is practically no contact with the back wall. only two tiny thermal pads.3. Taking the 3080 FE apart, for me the T5 bolts were pretty much stuck with the Loctite. I blew the heads off two of them because they are very soft. Make sure the T5 screwdriver makes good contact. However if you remove the head as the heads are soft I was able to loosen the bolts simply by pushing hard with the small flat head and was able to break the Loctite on them. Temperatures dropped to >25°C. Difficult to compare as temperatures are around 25% cooler, but now there are no fans. The map feels nice too. During intensive testing, my card showed a temperature of 41 °C. The maximum value of the Memory Junc sensor has reached 72 °C. This sensor was unreadable in HWInfo64 when I ran the map prior to installing the water block, but reading online it reaches >100C with standard cooling. to transfer from a regular cooler. Make sure you insert it before you put the two screws in there. Once installed, it appears to be fairly firmly attached. But with hard tubes you also get a lot of support from the tubes, so I don't have to use an extra mount to support the card (because it makes the card so short, standard mounts don't usually fit anyway). although this one looks much prettier IMHO