I understand that. My question would be is a passive cooling solution possible/sufficient, or is active cooling truly necessary due to modern GPUs increased power consumption. 5$ worth of generic heatsinks and thermal pads would make this extremely easy, but I had hoped someone might know if...
I'm finally in a position where I can build a desktop, and was lucky enough to snag a 3070. I want to liquid cool my build primarily for aesthetic/fun project reasons with a secondary focus on performance and noise reduction. Therefore I'm going to build a primarily Barrow and alphacool loop...