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Air is better than water

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] ShitOnABrick 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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