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Is water cooling the norm then these days? Can it be not hideous? My assumption is a big multi coloured lava lamp.
You're not wrong, 30 series GPUs are hens teeth at the moment and you'd struggle to find an AMD one too! Would you be interested in 2nd hand? You could probably find a 2080ti second hand if you wanted, but for the amount they go for you're 2/3 of the way to a 3070!
As for water cooling it can be as gentle as you like - I also hate RGB and spinning fan crap. I had a Corsair AIO (a previous model to this) that I turned the LED colour to white and it was acceptable.
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I don't really understand these water cooling setups. Surely the whole point of having a circulation system is to allow you to move the radiators away from the sources of heat, i.e. outside the case. In a building, you have the AC system outside, on the roof. Including the pumps and fans, which also produce heat.
But in watercooled PCs, all this seems to be inside the case, which seems stupid.
chez_jay
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