I thought that'd be a given, otherwise why the need for water cooling?
(Who's Gerald Marley and why has he this picture?)
Im not sure, there's a need for watercooling, after all, custom coolers gpu's deal with way more amount of power thermal dissipation than that,
Buts its cool, and allow them more flexibility .. Everyone do AIO water coolers, Corsair, Asetek, Intel, ( since the I7 4900 series ), cooler masters, every brands present their pc with them for the cpu, or the gpu.. just have to look on any brands presentations of their new case, their last motherboard in tech meeting.. Look on every tech presentation what you have his is a cpu cooled by this type of all in one H2o ..
Look like AMD have find some argument with it.. dont need to do much work on the cooling part, customizable, good temps, marketing, this seems a good standard now for enthusiast gamers who dont have the knowledge or dont want set up their own custom h2o loops.
Personally i make my custom H2o loop since more than 15 years .. so the performance of this type of AIO dont interest me..
WIth HBM, it make even more sense for cool the core+vram.. you have 1 waterblock, who cool a closed surface, outside, the only one part to cool is the PWM .. it simplify everytthing...
And like write gamervivek, it will also help keep an higher boost clock ..
Something with custom h2o setup like i use, way better of any AIO, is my GPU's temp difference between idle and full load ( benchmark or vray tracing ) is only of 3-4°C delta .. basically if my GPU's idle at 30°C, the maximum temp at full load is 34°C, and like every parts of my GPU's are watercooled ( core, vram, PWM ), you get the same temps in every parts, whatever it is the ram, the core, the pwm.. with extremely low variation compared to "standard" air system between idle and full. ( where you can have 90°C load for PWM, and 40 for idle, 30°C for the core and 70°C full load ). You end with really good stability let alone longevity.
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