Shove in a https://www.teradici.com/ card, and bam, low latency, high colour accuracy, high resolution remote video.
This allowed us to use the huge machines that drove realtime VFX (your flames, baselite and editing rigs) in utter silence.
But unless you need 4 GPUs, even just 2 GPUs with normal modern air cooling would still be reasonably quiet.
For the overwhelming majority of consumer-oriented products, you don't need water cooling to be silent (or near-silent). Those tower coolers and triple-slot GPU coolers are really good at getting rid of the heat in a noise-efficient manner.
Plus I suspect that having watercooling for that machine allows it to fit in a much smaller space. We had a machine that contained 4 RTX 2080s (or maybe the generation before) and it took up a huge amount of space, and never went at full speed, because of the cooling (those consumer cards are not designed for density.)
I would like to have a quiet and powerful machine for deep learning. The best one I found come from NVIDIA DGX station. It uses liquid cooling and is <35dB acoustics. The problem is that it is too expensive and, last I check, I think it requires buying support contract from third-party.
If liquid cooling is what it takes to have a quiet powerful machine, I hope it will be mainstream.
Source: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...