1) the bix is in my opinion; higly overpriced. there's no fun in buying something that costs 4 x more than a standard issue dtek heatercore, or 8 x more than what u harvest from a car junkyard. even more if the performance is mediocre as opposed to the heatercore solution. the build style is almost the same between HC and BIX; just the surface area is king here. if u got a HC that hardly has more surface area than a large aircooler... than u will have to use relatively loud fans to cool adequately.
so, if it is performance u want or silence; it all gets better with a HC
2) as BillA points out, the regular U version of swifty seems to outperform the UH against all odds. if u read other reviews the UH seems to perform at about the same as maze3 ( a good mount will get u better temps than another block)
3) for gpu and NB i don't thk it is necessary to watercool. get an old cpu heatsink and glue it on either, and u will get as good temps, no sound, and alot less cable clutter.
4) if silence is golden, than u need surface area on that heatercore, or get used to temps in the lower 50°C's.
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