I've been holding off because I'm too scared about the stupid power cable melting, can happen to anyone on any card. Its beyond stupid.

Been looking at getting a 9070XT but the problem is there are no waterblocks for it other than by Alphacool and the shipping from Germany to here is ... expensive

Oh well I have a 9x120mm Radiator by Bykski, like the Alphacool MORA that Derbauer uses.

Have the radiator outside my room with the tubes routed to it, so in my room I just have the fans running at their lowest speed for airflow over things like the RAM and SSDs so its silent in the room while all the heat and noise is dumped outside into the giant radiator.

In this kind of scenario, having the GPU not be watercooled will ruin things. Like it will take it from being silent to ... not silent

I dont really need to change things, but I've been getting random crashes recently and I'm wondering if its because of the Nvidia drivers people keep talking about online. Been annoying the heck out of me, Indiana Jones is completely unstable and Robocop was prone to crashing every couple of hours... though Space Marine 2 and Alan Wake 2 ran fine. Though no real way to know if its an issue with something else or Windows 11 so not sure if I wanna spend that much money to experiment either