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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Msi aero 1080 here, also have an msi aero 1070, an reference 980, and a blower rx 580.

1070 and 1080 work great. 1070 runs about 45°c idle and 72°c gaming. 1080 is about 47°c idle and 76°c gaming.

The 980 runs around 50°c idle and around 85°c gaming. The rx runs about 45° idle and right on the edge of 90°c gaming.

All repasted with Arctic silver. 

The issue isn't the cooler style, because a GOOD blower only needs one fan blowing at it with the right curves and it will stay stable. A bad blower, no matter what you do, it'll just run hot. There's no way around it.

Some brands are better with their blowers than others, msi and Asus generally making decent blowers. Sometimes you need a repaste, sometimes you need to add thermal pads.

I prefer my blower cards and am planning on getting an A770 predator bifrost, not only do I think it looks badass but I'm excited to see a different gpu, and that we can still make normal sized cards. I'm not interested in super huge cards.
gpt
Problem with blowers is they are basically always louder than axial for the same heat dissipation. 

They're great for servers and tight builds, but just a worse buy for anything else.