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In the Ncase M1, I found that even with a 360 mm Radiator equivalent, the system was only marginally between than Air-cooled GPU and a 240 mm AIO in terms of thermal performance. At some point you are probably better off just with normal air cooling if you have to compromise so much in terms of pump performance and fan noise. I think for a recent high end system (8700K + 1080TI, for example) 360 mm of 30 mm thick radiator is pretty much the minimum I would consider for a watercooled system, which happens to be the max that you can fit into Ncase M1 with a bit of creativity.

[QUOTE="For_Science, post: 112223, member: 6179"] In the Ncase M1, I found that even with a 360 mm Radiator equivalent, the system was only marginally between than Air-cooled GPU and a 240 mm AIO in terms of thermal performance. At some point you are probably better off just with normal air cooling if you have to compromise so much in terms of pump performance and fan noise. I think for a recent high end system (8700K + 1080TI, for example) 360 mm of 30 mm thick radiator is pretty much the minimum I would consider for a watercooled system, which happens to be the max that you can fit into Ncase M1 with a bit of creativity. [/QUOTE]

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