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I assume that you mean the GPU temp is 32C not ambient temperatures.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_960_Gaming/33.html

Yet again, no major differences between our tested cards. All cards turn off their fans in idle, which results in roughly 40°C. During gaming, there are slight differences, but none of them are significant. All cards stay well below the 80°C limit beyond which NVIDIA's Boost Technology will start dialing down clocks to keep the cards cool.
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1. Zotac wasn't tested, can't speak as to what that model does.

2. That is by default ... anyone can set up / change fan behavior with MSI Afterburner or equivalent.

Either way, as explained above, I don't see a problem. You have many options available which...
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What constitutes VGA Liquid Cooling ?

What card do you have and what are the temps ? Is the problem the car's cooling or inadequate case cooling ? A new cooler won't solve the latter.

Your link isn't working... rather than a link, please provide:

Case make / model
GFX Card make model
No. of case fans
Is anything overclocked and how much ?
What are yoiu using for CPU cooling ?

I would not recommend CLC type Hybrid cooler as they serve no purpose on recent generations of nVidia cards since the GPU never reaches throttling points unless case cooling is inadequate.

 
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Case : Thermal Take commander ms III
Gfx : Zotac amp gtx 960 4gb
Places for fans : Top / Bottom / Rear / Front
Nothing is overclocked
stock intel cooler for cpu

Images :
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Still hard to address w/o knowing the GPU temps or number of case fans actually being used

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_960_Gaming/33.html

Card throttles at 80C and yet, even overclocked, testers were not able to break out of the 60s in 3 of 4 cards tested. MSI got the highest overclock and it managed 63C ... so, from what I see, when properly installed w/ adequate case cooling, there should be plenty of headroom and case cooling should not be an issue.

Again case link isn't working but looking here, we see it comes with just one 120mm case fan .. web site specs however imly 2.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cases/display/thermaltake-system-cases-review.html

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With a peak card consumption of 125 watts, and assuming a 90 watt CPU.... lets assume a system wattage of 250 watts. The rule of thumb is one 120mm fan for every 75 watts on average, I'd want 3 case fans in that rig (one rear, one front and one side)

Again, still don't know what temps you are experiencing or what you are thinking as to VGA cooling. But unless the card is not cooling properly, or case cooling is inadequate it should have temps well below the throttling point.

One option is to adjust the fan curves with MSI Afterburner
 
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with Zotac software : idle 41 - in use didnt notice bec i installed msi after burner after i saw this horrible temp
with msi after burner default user defined : idle 32 - in use 50-60 with no overclocking
the problem is the summer
in egypt summer temp go high up to 45 degree
we are still in the beginning of summer so temp are constant nowdays but i dont know what will happen when it rise up


 
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OK, if you are 50 - 60 now, that is how many degrees above room temperature ?

Ok I just checked Cairo temps and its 29C ... so your high summer temp of 45C is 16C higher than present temps. Then we can expect that your 50 - 60C will go to 66 - 76C, still below the throttling point.

In addition, as the temps rise, your GPU fans and case fans should be responding accordingly... the 960s fans typically dont even turn on until temps reach 40C
 
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its 33 now and fans working at 1300 rpm so i dont think it turned off
 
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I assume that you mean the GPU temp is 32C not ambient temperatures.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_960_Gaming/33.html

Yet again, no major differences between our tested cards. All cards turn off their fans in idle, which results in roughly 40°C. During gaming, there are slight differences, but none of them are significant. All cards stay well below the 80°C limit beyond which NVIDIA's Boost Technology will start dialing down clocks to keep the cards cool.
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1. Zotac wasn't tested, can't speak as to what that model does.

2. That is by default ... anyone can set up / change fan behavior with MSI Afterburner or equivalent.

Either way, as explained above, I don't see a problem. You have many options available which will help the situation:

a) Adjust fan speeds
b) Add case cooling

A hybrid / CLC is limited in that it will address GPU temps but do nothing, or perhaps even worsen, VRM temps which are likely in the mid 80s now under load..
 
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one more question please i bought this vga about 2.5 months ago and i instaled msi afterburner since that the fans are working even less than 40 but now i recognized it has freeze tech which stop under but msi prevented that the question is : fans are working all the time so do i have any problem with fans ? may something happened to them ?

i instaled zotac software again and it turns it off under 40
 
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