I was mildly disappointed with Vavles pricing, so I told my nephew i’d make him a Bazzite system. He plays simple games.
Specs: Ryzen 4650G 450W PSU B550 Asrock ITX board 16GB DDR4 @3600MT/s 1TB PCI-e 3.0 Nvme Coolermaster 240 AIO (somehow crammed in) Silverstone SG-13 case
Those fans actually dropped the temperature a bit, even in a traditional case. They are noctua’s thin fans.
I don’t have this 3080 any longer, went to a 9070XT.
Interesting, I would have thought the cooling shroud makes more of a difference.
How did you mount them on the heatsink? Might do this to some older GPUs to make them fit in smaller cases.