Aurora R11, dual fan GPU replacement

The 2080 produces massively more heat than the 1070 (250tdp vs 150 tdp).  I would suspect worse temps with the open air design recycling and pulling air from inside the case, and obsctructed fans with the psu.  

Instead, try bumping up your gpu fan curve with msi afterburner.

I have an R10 and replaced the Dell RTX 2080 ti with an Nvidia RTX 2080 ti Founder's Edition (has dual fans on GPU) and temps run ~5c - 10c  cooler when gaming.

Here's a 3dmark comparison between Nvidia 2080 ti Founder's Edition and Dell 2080 ti

Nvidia 2080 ti Founder's Edition GPU:

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/12808341

Stock Dell 2080 ti GPU:

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/12558925

That’s quite a difference in tdp.  

I will try your suggestion but I assume the fans will run louder.

I have no clue what i am doing with it. I just opened it and played around with it. But here is my settings.

If anyone can see anything wrong with mine please let me know as well. 

I had a post running last week about running two RTX2080Ti's in my R11 and in that post talked about the top card running around 85c while gaming. A nice guy told me to run a curve in msi afterburner and WOW mine dropped 15 to 20c right away. I there for kept the other card in because I was considering taking the lower card out for airflow.

Ok.  So this could work.  As pointed out earlier. Is it the same or better performance?

do you mind giving me a few tips on running this curve?

I take it the your original GPU was also a blower type.  I think that the vent on the lower side of the case is helping in letting the heat of the dual gpu type out instead of in that the blower type needs.  So it works.

does your cpu temp changed or is it the same?

Correction, 84c max at heavy loads

CPU temp while gaming is pretty much the same ~65 - 75c when using either the exhaust blower GPU or the dual fan GPU... 

Looking at the airflow diagram, it appears to take intake air on the dual fans and exhaust it on the side where it has the green lighted "Geforce RTX" - If that is indeed how the airflow is setup then the hot air is exhausted through the side panel vent, the same vent that I can look through and see the green lighted "Geforce RTX"

https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2019/01/11/NVIDIA-RTX-Graphics-Card-Cooling-Issues-1326/

That is exactly what I m thinking.  Since the hot air cant go up cause it is blocked by the PSY removable arm, the dual fans push the hot air to the side vent.  Then the front intake fan helps to push the hot air to the back of the unit as well.

That plus the fact that the card runs 10c avg cooler as per your example, then it is less heat in the case, compared to the blower version.  

The RTX2080 card used in the AW is essentially the MSI Aero version.  One of MSI budgets cards. So potentially was chosen for that reason rather than to push the hot air unit because of the case design.  

I think a dual-fan is a much better option and a potential option for this case.  Asus and MSI already have an RTX3070 with dual fan.  A very serious contender for a replacement since it performs better than the RXT2080ti at about $800.

Just a quick note:

The way the power supply swings over the GPU seems to be a benefit for the 2080 ti FE dual fan by shunting quite a bit of the airflow that might go up helping vent out the side...

But this design will have issues for the new RTX 3080 Founder's Edition card the way the airflow is setup

Yes, I will try that first.  Save some money.

Do you have some tips or guidelines handy on how to do that?