GPU SFF'ing RTX 3090

[petricor]

Hi all,
I'm trying to find the smallest (that's all dimensions, thickness included) water block /card combo for a 3090 - regardless of whether FE or RE.
Annoyingly, the RE EKWB blocks are more than 4mm thicker (that's 20.75mm) measured from the PCB when compared to EK's own 3090 TUF/Strix blocks (16.4mm), which, on the other hand, have a much larger footprint.

Is anyone aware of a block as flat as EK's Strix/TUF block, but adhering to a reference design footprint?

 

[Lucas]

I've ran into similar problem as you, but with the 3070. I decided to make my own block. Hard to make really small SFFs with thick waterblocks.

 

[matador1182]

You're best bet would be the EK founders edition blocks, they'd even fit in the S4M (someone has a build of it on the discord channel)

 

[cennis]

Hi all,
I'm trying to find the smallest (that's all dimensions, thickness included) water block /card combo for a 3090 - regardless of whether FE or RE.
Annoyingly, the RE EKWB blocks are more than 4mm thicker (that's 20.75mm) measured from the PCB when compared to EK's own 3090 TUF/Strix blocks (16.4mm), which, on the other hand, have a much larger footprint.

Is anyone aware of a block as flat as EK's Strix/TUF block, but adhering to a reference design footprint?

Estimated the block itself to be ~14mm thick since the PCB + backplate is probably ~5mm

credit: @stanleyguan