I know that Nvidia "doesn't care" who gets their cards, but they do care about their brand image and the PR consequences of this move from Zotac. After all, Nvidia has publicly complained about the problems that mining is causing (another thing is what they think or say in private, probably happy to be able to sell every single chip they make. Same for AMD), and so if now they don't do anything, the pointing fingers will go from Zotac to them, and Nvidia doesn't want to be seen as the bad guys here.

Because of this, I expect Nvidia will come out and say something about this, even if it's a lot of nothing like "we'll revise our agreement with our partners to make sure that supply goes to our primary consumers, the gaming community" or something similar.

I've always been obsessed with trying to make my PC as quiet as possible but I generally game with sound fairly loud so it probably doesn't matter that much it's just one of those things I always feel inclined to strive for. On the other hand if you've every had a PS4 in your house you could buy the loudest PC parts you can find and still have a quieter PC by comparison.

I glad noise is something that never really bothered me. Compare to the days I use to air cool my CPU with a Vantec 92mm Tornado fan my computer is quiet. I actually did not even have a fan controller on it until I moved to college and got one in order to not drive my dormmate insane.

Probably the loudest thing in my current computer is the coil wine my 3090 make every time I load into a game. Once I start playing I don't really notice it and I just don't care enough to attempt to RMA it and hope I get a replacement this decade so I just keeping it.

I also got clicking from my flow meter, eventually I just replace it with a digital one but again it just become white noise for me so not motivated to do it.

The 20 fans I use actually not that noisy with how I got fan curve setup. unless the water temp get really hot which don't seem to happen even during long gaming sessions. If I manually set all the fans too 100% then it really really loud but other then if I trying to push a benchmark which not something I do it really no reason to ever set the fans at that level.

As long as the noise constant and not randomly going in and out (like having one broken fan that randomly rattle would drive me crazy so I would replace that quick) it just become white noise for me so it got to be really loud to bother me.

I glad noise is something that never really bothered me. Compare to the days I use to air cool my CPU with a Vantec 92mm Tornado fan my computer is quiet. I actually did not even have a fan controller on it until I moved to college and got one in order to not drive my dormmate insane.

Probably the loudest thing in my current computer is the coil wine my 3090 make every time I load into a game. Once I start playing I don't really notice it and I just don't care enough to attempt to RMA it and hope I get a replacement this decade so I just keeping it.

I also got clicking from my flow meter, eventually I just replace it with a digital one but again it just become white noise for me so not motivated to do it.

The 20 fans I use actually not that noisy with how I got fan curve setup. unless the water temp get really hot which don't seem to happen even during long gaming sessions. If I manually set all the fans too 100% then it really really loud but other then if I trying to push a benchmark which not something I do it really no reason to ever set the fans at that level.

As long as the noise constant and not randomly going in and out (like having one broken fan that randomly rattle would drive me crazy so I would replace that quick) it just become white noise for me so it got to be really loud to bother me.

I have no reason to believe the situation has changed significantly, so I'm going to assume there are GPUs as loud as my GTX 970. It sounds like a vibrator (and not a quiet one, I would assume), and it has caused more than one debate with my significant other... On the other hand, my PS4 slim feels extremely quiet compared to this. The original fat PS4 was in another league though... But currently, the loudest piece of gaming equipment here is my GTX 970, and it will make me pay attention to noise levels when I'm getting as new one (which is as soon as GTX 3060 actually hits the market at a decent price). I don't personally even mind a bit of noise, but even I find this somewhat annoying.

20 fans? Assuming you use them in a push-pull configuration, how many radiators do you have? A 240/280 plus a 360 radiators one would need 10 fans max, add a couple more as intake and exhaust, and that still doesn't make 20.

My case gigantic.  I posted the fill specs here https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9173059 but short answer I got 3x560 radiators with 4x140mm fans each (so 12 on radiators).  one radiator at the bottom on right side so on left side got additional 4 fans so air blow through the bottom then in top section there 4 intakes on the front of case which give a total of 20.

My god! That's not a case, that's a small closet!