With smart engineering, some cards run surprisingly cool, like the Asus TUF RTX 3090 Ti, which recorded a peak temperature of under 70 degrees in our review. The RTX 3090 Ti isn't one of them, and it's been well-documented how hot it can run due to its high TDP rating.
Asus' triple fan TUF cooler might be huge, but why settle for three fans when you can include a 240mm AIO as well? Japanese PC maker Sycom can build you a system with an RTX 3090 Ti that comes with a triple fan air cooler and a 240mm AIO. Yes, that's a graphics card with five fans.
The Sycom GeForce RTX 3090 Ti comes an Asetek 240mm radiator that's cooled by a pair of excellent Noctua NF-A12x25 ULN fans. ULN stands for ultra-low noise which means that the AIO part of the card will hardly be heard, even under a full load. According to Hermitage Akihabara and Tom's Hardware, the AIO is used to cool the GPU and GDDR6X memory while the VRM of the board is cooled by the triple fan air cooler.
Sycom claim that this cooler design reduces temperatures by up to 15 degrees Celsius compared to a standard air-cooled card, saying the card can hold a long-term boost clock of over 1800MHz at a temperature of 65 Celsius. That's a great result for a card that can draw easily over 400W.
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Sycom's RTX 3090 Ti isn't the first hybrid card. There are several AIO equipped models but they've tended to be flagship models like EVGA's Kingpin or Asus' Strix LCS. But with TDPs set to rise to unprecedented levels, it's clear that GPU manufacturers are increasingly going to have to
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