Upgrading my Passive cooled system

[just-sounds]

Dear all, Long time lurker but i finally registered :-)

Short intro, I'm from the Netherlands and record/broadcast classical music for live radio and cd productions. Besides that into sailing, cows and building electric equipment. 

 

For my recording rig i have two identical PC's in case one  F's up the second one should be running fine. They are based on a haxx.eu case and are cooled passively by coupling the CPU to a copper block and the copper block is coupled to a (LARGE) heatsink. 

 

Config right now: Intel i7 4790, gigabyte z97UD3H, silverstone nightjar 520 fanless PSU, 16gb of ram, M.2 ssd 128Gb (and a SSD swap caddy) 

Some specialist pci-e cards from RME for audio (MADI and AES3) in and out of the PC's

 

This served me very well the past few years and still works like a charm. It handles P95 tests very well without throttling and and in general use it works without crashes.  But now i want to get into video editing and probably will be using Black Magic Da Vinci Resolve for this. This program relies heavily on the GPU for most of the heavy lifting so i think my system should have a dedicated GPU.

 

As you guessed i'm not a fan of fans...... I try to keep my systems as silent as possible as most fan noises are distracting during my work and also end up on recordings.

 

Main question what is the baddest GPU i could find with at least the option to cool it without a fan? I fount the Palit KalmX 1050TI wich could be a good match for my system. But maybe i could go up a notch and have a 1060 or even a 1070 in a fanless config. Do you know of any? I'm not interested in water cooled options for, now but maybe if i end up swapping the Mobo and the CPU I will be. I'm not affraid to get my hands dirty and rebuild an existing card with a new heatsink but i'm not ready to make the heatsink itself.       

 

 

[just-sounds]

Ouch that would be buying a €1000,- case TWICE. that is a bit expensive for now. I keep it in mind though :-) But a self contained GPU with passive cooling is the main goal.

[For Science!]

1 hour ago, just-sounds said:

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Get a low-ish power GPU amd whack on a Morpheus II cooler or Accelero thing without fans?

[just-sounds]

10 minutes ago, For Science! said:

Morpheu

Thanks the accelero seems to support a 1060!

[just-sounds]

https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/accelero-s3.html

[just-sounds]

I bought a palit storm-x 1060 6 gig and an arctic s3. will post some pics of the disection :-)

[just-sounds]

As promised.

[WoodenMarker]

How are temps?

[Alex Atkin UK]

Definitely curious about this as I always figured that many passively cooled GPUs are designed on the assumption you still have a case fan or two.

[just-sounds]

Just tested it, not great but maybe it will be ok in normal workloads.

[WoodenMarker]

25 minutes ago, just-sounds said:

Just tested it, not great but maybe it will be ok in normal workloads.

It might be worth undervolting a bit to lower temps. I'd personally add a low rpm NF-S12A for some extremely quiet airflow. 

[just-sounds]

It was not stable when i underpowered, undervolting seems not supported. Probably a fan is a good solution. It will be a 140mm though a 120mm does not fit the case. But  i guess that is better. Maybe have to get a rgb :-)