Upgrading a GPU with Hard-Tubing

It seems a little daunting to me, but I was hoping someone here could help.  If anybody knows how I could tackle this, like best practices for draining and refilling the loop, how to remove the GPU and insert the new one despite the inflexible tubing being in the way, I would very much appreciate it.

What are you doing with your computer that requires a 2080ti? I have to ask, it's super expensive and if you're only playing games your 1080 is perfect.

I'm all for owning the most/best/top of the line. You do know that you will never, ever, ever come close to using 32 GB of ram. Why stop at 32GB when you could go 64GB =) or 128GB. If money is not an issue, you should Hydrolux the entire setup.

Originally posted by ThePinkGoat What are you doing with your computer that requires a 2080ti? I have to ask, it's super expensive and if you're only playing games your 1080 is perfect.

I would agree, that for gaming alone the 2080 Ti cards are way overpriced. At this point in time, its a lot of extra money to pay for unsupported(in general)/unimplemented/what-if's/maybe features on a recently released graphics card. Currently, there are very very few games that even support the ray tracing(one of its hyped-up marketed selling points), and this was from an article dated Sept. 19 of this year.
Fast-forward to today:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/battlefield-v-dxr-ray-tracing-tested/
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-admits-2080-ti-problems/

The way I'm seeing it, NVidia expects us to pay more for some of these new RT cards while at the same time, the benchmarks in the first article are showing a reduced performance when using the ray tracing feature at 1080p using an RTX 2080. If I was going to spend that much cash on a graphics card strictly for gaming and I needed it NOW, I would get a Titan Xp, or better yet, look for someone selling a 1080 Ti. This is just my opinion, because right now I really don't care about ray tracing. To me, its an absurd idea of spending more up front for "hopefully" better performance in about a year. I could be wrong, but in regards to ray tracing I'm expecting there to be marginal improvement at best with the current 2000-series products available and that NVidia will probably release an even more powerful RTX card. So I'm guessing that by the time ray tracing is more ubiquitous in gaming, individuals will either have to purchase an additional RTX card and/or a yet-to-come more powerful RTX card in order to take full advantage of the ray tracing features; especially if they want to game with it at higher resolutions. Sound familiar?

On the plus side, the 2080 Ti has a lot more CUDA cores & faster memory, which will always help improve performance. Just don't expect much any time soon when it comes to ray tracing. Some of the current 3d production software doesn't even support the new 2000 series cards(much less Ray Tracing), so you either have to use a beta version of the 3d software(if one is available)that supports them, do your rendering without Iray, or use different software that does support them.

So if the OP has the money to burn, go for it. Don't be surprised if you end up having to purchase an additional card if you want to use ray tracing on higher settings/higher resolutions.

I agree with Meller.    Nothing wrong with getting the best graphics card if the money is there. It’s a perk some can utilize.    Ray Tracing might be on only a few games but I personally would love to try it, and it’s huge performance hit does require aRTX 2080 Ti for even 1080 p gaming from testing I’ve seen. You don’t even need to go 4K to justify it.     Whether it’s worth it or not is a personal decision for sure.

If Ray Tracing takes off in the next year or so then great. If not, well , we all buy things much more than we need.   Look at the cars we buy, way beyond what we need for transportation, cell phones with features we’ll never use,....the list goes on.

If it feels good, then do it.