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I'm sitting on the fence - do I watercool my 2070S?

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System Name Bragging Rights
Processor Atom Z3735F 1.33GHz
Motherboard It has no markings but it's green
Cooling No, it's a 2.2W processor
Memory 2GB DDR3L-1333
Video Card(s) Gen7 Intel HD (4EU @ 311MHz)
Storage 32GB eMMC and 128GB Sandisk Extreme U3
Display(s) 10" IPS 1280x800 60Hz
Case Veddha T2
Audio Device(s) Apparently, yes
Power Supply Samsung 18W 5V fast-charger
Mouse MX Anywhere 2
Keyboard Logitech MX Keys (not Cherry MX at all)
VR HMD Samsung Oddyssey, not that I'd plug it into this though....
Software W10 21H1, barely
Benchmark Scores I once clocked a Celeron-300A to 564MHz on an Abit BE6 and it scored over 9000.
So I have a couple of spare 2070S cards that are pretty generic (Palit GP triple-fan) and their fans are pretty quiet but their fan control firmware is pretty terrible (fan panic - inconsistent bursts of high-RPM for no reason, and no firmware updates that I can find to potentially fix that annoyance).

I'm tempted to watercool one since these look to be reference-design cards and their power limit is 116% so there's at least some headroom to tap. I guess I have two questions:

  1. Is this card actually going to work with a waterblock designed for a 2080FE?
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    (Image courtesy of Guru3D)

  2. I have room for a 280 or 420mm radiator but pump/res space is limited. I guess I could squeeze something into onto a 3.5" HDD tray as long as it's not more than, say, 100mm tall, so what's a decent, cheap AIO or block/pump/rad setup for a GPU only? I'm not a custom-loop newbie but the last time I had a custom loop I was using a Laing D5 and Danger-den were still a fresh startup so I'm pretty out of date.
The 3900X is still cooled by an NH-U12 and I'm not in a hurry to replace that, so treat this as a GPU-only question. Tell me I should stick with the air cooler and why, or convince me that spending money on a GPU that will be obsolete in 18 months is a good idea :)
 
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