"For anyone interested, I've managed to cool an RTX 4060 low profile card completely passively using a slightly modified Arctic Accelero S1 for the GPU and a bit of custom fabrication work for the other hot components. No case fans either so truly, completely passive.
I'm super pleased with the result; after plenty of testing attempts with furmark it finally hit thermal throttling after reaching about 84 °C (at 22 °C ambient) according to HWinfo but generally sits fairly stable at about 80 give or take 2 degrees. I'm hoping a bit of undervolting will let me run it full blast during warmer months.
For some backstory, I've had a bit of an obsession the last few years over building a rig that's dead silent, ie. no fans, while remaining as performant as possible.
The problem is, the cooler mounting situation on the 4060 is wildly different, which I knew would matter but had some ideas in mind and kind of recklessly just bought the card and thought fuck it i'll figure it out. Well i figured it out, but not without headache. It turns out it's pretty easy to rupture the cooler heat pipes with a bit of "gentle" bending, which renders them useless. So after a couple of sacrificial coolers, redesigns, and shit-ton of time building a new mounting bracket plus memory and VRM heat sinks here we are."
Source: reddit
