Air is better than water

  • okiloki@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    My GPU had a shitty blower cooler, switching to water-cooling made my system so much more quiet!

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why they sell GPUs for up to $2000, and they still come with the same crappy fans we had on $150 cards.

      Want watercooling? Have fun invalidating your warranty.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        There are also great coolers that come on stock cards, you just have to pick one that isn’t shitty. No temp issues with my EVGA or Gigabyte cards that have huge heatsinks and 3 big fans on them.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t follow. The cooler designs on modern midrange and high end GPUs are way bigger and more elaborate than anything that has ever shipped on a $150 GPU.

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      1 year ago

      Did you consider this earth shattering idea of replacing shitty stock fans with actually good fans? Or mounting atop good fans?

    • u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Blower style coolers on gpus can be quite good just depends on the card. I’ve had good blower cards and bad blower cards also in certain cases it may be beneficial to get a blower card over a normal card for temps alone as they stuck air up and blow it out towards the back