Taking apart my precious NVIDIA RTX 3080 to water cool it

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So I am installing water cooling on my RTX 3080. I have only installed water cooling on my GPU 3 times in my life, in early 2000s, in 2018 and today so there are plenty of things that can go wrong since I don't know what I am doing.
This is the long version of the video. If this is more than you can handle, you can find a short version here: https://youtu.be/ubFfCQMpe9k

Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro & Backstory.
00:05:00 Empty EKWB Loop for water
00:17:00 RTX 3080 Disassembly
00:43:15 Thermal Pads
00:51:00 Too much Thermal Paste?
00:54:00 Installing Water Block
00:59:00 Installing Fittings
01:03:11 Installing card in PC
01:05:00 Plumbing PC for water cooling
01:12:30 Pouring water into the loop
01:14:20 How to power just the pump
01:15:20 First pump power on
01:18:27 First power on PC







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