Some GPU questions

The first one you can use if you already have a watercooling.
The second one is a water cooling by itself. So yes, you can use it in any pc (if you have enough space).

The second one CAN be more silent than the third one but it depends on the pump and the fans that are used.
In idle the Strix will stand still but the watercooling still needs to run... So in idle the strix is more quit.
On load... hard to tell tbh. I don't think it will be that much of a difference. A watercooling is not something that you use when you want to have a quiet pc. It's more like you can transport more heat much faster out of your PC.

So it's more about OC and stuff.

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This is why I'm afraid of water cooling.

For me water + electricity is a bad mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6278v9TF6Uo

And about the noise if your PC is on the ground and not on your head level and you play games I don't think you will notice and sound from PC as you will be focused on the game sounds :P

I've considered watercooled cards in the past, but since Nvidia always limit the OC capability i don't think it's worth the gamble (Pump noise, potential leak, pump and liquid lifetime...). Just my 2 cents.

I would rather check site like Gamers Nexus and look for the best fans on this generation, usually some cards from Asus and Msi leads in the noise department.

if you is italian and have good internet speed and don't care about competitive or mp,consider also to save your money and use just geforcenow nvidia beta services for run all games you own on steam at max graphics 60fps for free without any gpu (also must check then if google stadia can use steam too as gfnow will be good too).

if you have money to burn you could try to get an asus rog matrix card with integrated AIO watercooler.
doesn't really get more ridiculous. and expensive.

back in the days i considered watercooling as well but nope. too expensive to get all the parts, there's always some risk of leakage and every now and then you need to drain the loop and flush everything to keep it nice and proper. too much fucking work for old people.

also big ass air coolers are pretty, too!

The more money you put into installing a pool in your computer, the more gets flushed down the drain. It is probably better just to get two cards than that overpriced disappointment.

Water cooling has its advantages, especially on a video card, which should run hotter than the CPU in everyday use.
However, water cooling is not always quieter. It still uses the same fans as air cooling; it just pushes the hot air out of the radiator instead of the heat pipe. Hence why there are water cooling solutions which are louder than air coolers.
Water cooling is quieter because it is much more effective in conducting heat, so it usually has to run on a lower revolution rate.

Water cooled GPUs are a niché mostly because you need to put the radiator somewhere, and in most cases, this means sacrificing your only back fan that pushes the hot air out of the PC case.

However, if you are contemplating on buying one of the most overpriced high-end graphics cards on the current market, I assume you have the high-grade PC case to accompany it. Also, if you are blowing this amount of money on computer parts, you should be in the water-cooling phase already. It is a more effective way to keep the PC cooler and less cluttered. They also run for the same time as air coolers, since pumps usually tend to doe around the same time as a fan (20-50 thousand hours).

800fps 32k uberhd tremor coins incoming..