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That a cooling solution that has about 7cm "width" to work with outperforms one that has about 3cm and is generally considered to be inferior efficiency wise ("blower") isn't really much of a surprise.The thing takes up about 2.5 liters by itself (by my estimation), so it better be at least as powerful/silent as a solution with a full cover block, pump and a slim 240 rad with 120x25 fans that's pulling air from a bottom vent - of a properly design case. As that would still take up less space.At the moment the "PCIe-Cooler" seems like a nice engineering solution for horrible case design - that would probably be outperformed by any decent existing GPU-cooling solution (especially the "AIO" ones with 240mm rads) in a case where airflow wasn't an absolute afterthought.This could be "easily" checked by dropping a 2080ti variant of this into say a Chimera Cerberus and comparing it to an EVGA 2080ti kingpin. I'm sure you have one of those lying around - the AIO on those is an Asetek one too, right?
That a cooling solution that has about 7cm "width" to work with outperforms one that has about 3cm and is generally considered to be inferior efficiency wise ("blower") isn't really much of a surprise.
The thing takes up about 2.5 liters by itself (by my estimation), so it better be at least as powerful/silent as a solution with a full cover block, pump and a slim 240 rad with 120x25 fans that's pulling air from a bottom vent - of a properly design case. As that would still take up less space.
At the moment the "PCIe-Cooler" seems like a nice engineering solution for horrible case design - that would probably be outperformed by any decent existing GPU-cooling solution (especially the "AIO" ones with 240mm rads) in a case where airflow wasn't an absolute afterthought.
This could be "easily" checked by dropping a 2080ti variant of this into say a Chimera Cerberus and comparing it to an EVGA 2080ti kingpin. I'm sure you have one of those lying around - the AIO on those is an Asetek one too, right?
