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now wait a minute this may very well be the quietest air-cooled GPU in its class

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but enthusiasts have been bolting full-size case fans to their gpus for

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over a decade could it possibly be worth

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buying one of these the ASUS x Noctua rtx 3070 when you could just redneck

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engineer your own guess we'll find out won't we and we'll find out who our

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sponsor is thanks to g-skill for sponsoring this video g-skill just

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announced their latest flagship ddr5 kits the trident z5 series these extreme

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performance ddr5 kits are designed for 12th gen Intel core processors and the

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z690 chipset platform find out more at the link in the video description i mean

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it's kind of cheating isn't it ASUS and not to us performance claims may very

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well pan out in the end but the thing is

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comically large look at this

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i mean it's not like we haven't seen cards with taller pcbs before it's not

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like we haven't seen cards with long coolers on them before but what i don't

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know if i've seen before is this appears to be a quadruple slot card

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and not only that but the thing about a quadruple slot card is you're gonna need

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at least one next to it for these fans to get any kind of air intake i mean the

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truly mind-blowing to me is not only did they put full-sized 120 millimeter by 25

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millimeter thick nf a12 desktop fans on

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the thing but they actually made the shroud like

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taller than them you know it's the kind of thing that i

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have to look at and go that probably wasn't ASUS's idea that

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was probably a knock to his idea or something to have this part sticking out

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here to make sure that under no circumstances would a knock to a cooled

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graphics card not perform properly because you can see

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that right there gives these fans quite a lot of buffer to take in air because

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you can't have anything right next to it

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you know i actually kind of like the look

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well yeah i just i think that's going to be a bit of a controversial take it's kind of

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sexy and like uh an ugly way you know

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does that make sense you know man it's like that like having a really

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like scary stuffed animal you know it's

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like scary cute it's ugly sexy

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man this is such an obvious collab i can't believe it took this long good on

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ASUS for getting it together i'd sort of expected october to do more than just

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strap their fans to a graphics card though

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now they claim they did but der bauer did a video about this

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card already and as far as he could tell the claims that ASUS knocked to a you

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know painstakingly redesigned this heatsink component

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don't appear to hold any water it seems to be exactly the same heat sink from

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ASUS rtx 3070 tough gaming let's play count the slots shall we so

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you got your one two three

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hold on one two three four four slots but

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can i actually install a card

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right next to it in that fifth one

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holy shnikeys it's actually going to push it a little bit

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and it's not even this isn't even a long enough card to interfere with the the

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peak of the bulge it's like it's like 4.1

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slots i guess it kind of makes sense i mean you look at high-end motherboards these

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days and lots of them don't have a full complement of pci express slots like

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they used to they'll have just one 16x slot up at the top and then maybe a

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couple of more because so many of the platforms PCIe lanes are taken up by

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storage now so if you're not going to be installing anything in it anyway i guess

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you might as well have a thick chunky ass GPU like this one

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of course you might not as well have it unless

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there's actually a performance benefit let's get it on the bench although first

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this is here for reference so we can see what uh i'm gonna call this a regular

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rtx 3070 with a triple fan cooler on

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here is gonna get us in terms of acoustic results

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to be clear this is a thick card and around 44 decibels while turboing to

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1950 megahertz and do maternal with GPU temps sitting at 63 degrees on the die

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and 73 degrees on the hot spot very respectable the Noctua one's just gonna

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have to do better if it's gonna take up a fourth slot as we shut down the system here we'll

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get a good opportunity to show you guys our noise floor here in the workshop

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with the hvac off so i'm gonna shut up for a second here

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at 28 29 decibels it's not an anechoic chamber in here by any stretch of the

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imagination but it's good enough for us to pick up

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a more normal rtx 3070 so it should be good enough for us to tell if this is

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better this thing looks so ridiculous

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i know right like the hilarious thing is the CPU

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cooler back here is what used to pass for you know a big CPU cooler now it

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looks like a toy getting CPU cooler envy

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over here ah something to note is that just like the tough gaming card that

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this is based on there's a performance and quiet mode switch

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on the back of the card here it ships in quiet mode but my assumption is that

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even performance mode on this thing would probably end up being pretty quiet

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i mean this is not my first kick at the knock to a can here i know that they

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make really quiet fans but damn it's a little awkward we went to

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get a reading off of it just to show you that it's under the noise floor in the

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room and the fans went turned off because it has a zero RPM mode so let's

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go ahead and fire up a light game theoretically this is one of those cards

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that has such a large heatsink on it that you should be able to run lighter

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titles without the fans even turning on but we'll see if that actually holds up

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and immediately there are a couple of observations we can make one is that the

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fans did in fact spin up so sayonara zero RPM gaming and number two

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is that roman der bauer observed that there was some coil whine

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on his card and i can verify that i'm getting some as

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well yeah i mean it's not loud in a way the

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product is kind of a victim of its own success because i wouldn't be able to

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hear that over the noise of a regular cooler it's just that i wish part of the

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collaboration between noctu and ASUS had been to design a board that managed

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extremely quiet power delivery i need a piece of metal like a side panel ah my

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lovely assistant james is over here helping prepare our victim for

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the thing you saw in the intro time for an extremely scientific experiment i'm

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going to get within earshot of the coil wine and put this panel in between us

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confirmed then as long as you've got it in a case like a normal person the coil

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wind's not likely to be a problem let's all just put the ball down huh huh

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they done did it they took my stuff get out of here boomer

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okay let's have a look if it's reached equilibrium yet

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wow has it ever

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55 degrees with 66 on the hot spot

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and that's clocked at 19.50 just like we saw before my fans are off

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the fans are freaking off of course rocket league

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not as demanding as do maternal let's fire that up next and we didn't even

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check the acoustics okay turn back on come on

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it's open oh excellent i don't know i exactly know what you wanted

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i found all the screws yes

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okay bye no you're not done

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you want the fans gone too yeah okay because i'm gonna put my own fans on it

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yeah that's the thing that happens when you pull off the female receptacle

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and you're trying to remove the male connector uh well it's fine because it's going to

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go back onto there anyway whoops

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i've seen dogs get stuck together

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wow what a weird thing to say um here you go

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wow

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that sounds like it's spinning really fast but this is like an 11 blade fan or

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something like that so it hits your finger a lot more

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frequently per revolution if that makes sense

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i don't think it's gonna heat up any more than it did that is outstanding

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no crazy frequency on this GPU we're at hitting 1860 but that's to be expected

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this is not the oc version and then in terms of temps

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and we managed to get up to 57

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and 68 on the hotspot and the craziest

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part is i don't think these fans even spun up anymore at all

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here everyone shh

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yeah we're right back to the noise floor you should note though you're not gonna

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see those kinds of temperatures in the real world because we're in a pretty

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cool room about 18 and a half degrees and we're running on an open bench which

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means that the GPU isn't sucking up hot air that was preheated by the CPU or any

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other components however that's a pretty compelling use case for a card like this

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if you have a stuffier case maybe a silence optimized one having a card that

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can run 10 degrees colder than the competition means that your case temps

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could be 10 degrees higher and the things still wouldn't thermal throttle

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not to mention the fans hadn't even wrapped up yet honestly this looks fine

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to me because you've got all the screws for this like heat spreader plate

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and you've got the four main screws for

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the actual fins leaving only one question

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is there truly anything special about this ASUS knock to a collab or could i

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achieve the same results with a couple of off-the-shelf Noctua fans and a roll

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of duct tape you ready andy

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all right i'm uh i'm gonna position my fan i'm doing some careful simulation

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engineering here i'm going to position my fan right at the edge of this

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heatsink because i want to take advantage of as much of this

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pass-through cooling as i can so i'm going to put that to put that

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right there i'm going to make myself a little uh kind of shroud okay okay so

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that's gonna go right there so we don't uh wait no no i can't do that no i'm not

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gonna make myself any kind of shroud the only

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uh hmm yeah what is the best way to take advantage of this because this is where

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the air has got to come out wait no no yeah no no not on this side

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yeah i know i was right in the first place dude okay

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only on this side where there's pass through this is so stupid

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stupid like a fox

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um sure

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look all right let's see you engineer uh

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a cooler in 10 minutes what do the kids say podcamp is this

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popchamp GPU edition

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i mean in fairness mine really doesn't look that much uglier and and my design

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is quite a bit more compact okay i think

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it's only three slots and change

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it's a full slot less thanks andy i was waiting for somebody

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to say it they're definitely spinning faster but i

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think part of the problem is that those are tied to CPU fan speeds

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ooh i have an idea i could go into the BIOS and reconfigure

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the fan curves but i got wancho in just a few minutes here so i'll just throw a

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couple of noise adapters on them let's go ahead and get an acoustic reading now

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it's not going to change because the fan speed is not tied to GPU temperatures in

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any way which could be dangerous unless our cooler was way overkill which i

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suspect this probably is so here i'll shut up let's uh

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just like the official knock to a GPU we are below the noise floor of this room

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which is around 29 decibels which is really freaking quiet

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but what about performance let's check out our canadian engineering

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here oh it's not as good not even close

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we suck oh no okay we're still turboing to

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1875 1890 megahertz but we've got a

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problem we hit GPU temps of 83 degrees

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and a hot spot temp of 96.

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so to answer the question

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can you just build one for yourself the answer is no

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not unless you're willing to compromise on the silence that Noctua and ASUS have

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achieved with this collaborative product because we have demonstrated in the past

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that you absolutely can just clip 120 millimeter fan to your GPU

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cooler and it will perform pretty darn well you just aren't going to get away

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with using low noise adapters if you want to have proper performance

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so dang good product jesus Noctua good job guys

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