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Water cooling would bring the footprint down, but you might have to get creative with where you put the radiator.
Doesn't watercooling only add more parts, unless you're putting the radiator outside the case?
He only has two slots. The rad doesn't go in the slots.
Yeah I don't think there is anywhere to put the radiator. Unless I also watercooled the CPU and shared the rad. The case isn't that tiny (NZXT h100). You might be able to get a rad in at the front even with the CPU air-cooler in place, I dunno.
I checked if there was a 2-slot water-cooled 5080 and there isn't - dunno if other cards offer anything, I'm just using that as a litmus test. I'm guessing most people in the market have a big tower, and maybe that's what I'll end up doing. The reason I got a small case originally was to take it on the train to LANs and now I have a car so it's not a problem. BUT I do put it on my desk instead of under it, and a full-size tower wouldn't fit.
I don't know what the factory wc options are, but the aftermarket GPU AIOs all seem to be 1- or 2-slot.
Yeah I feel like I'm too old to be removing stock coolers and replacing them on GPUs... It took enough to get me to do that with my CPU lol
Yeah, I'm with you. My current rig is parts I meticulously selected and then let sit on a table for 6 months until I gave up and took it to a local shop to be assembled.