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Well, power consumption is still kinda important on a desktop. All that power has to go somewhere and you need a cooler that can keep up or you'll be losing mor
by sdflhasjd 7y ago
Well, power consumption is still kinda important on a desktop. All that power has to go somewhere and you need a cooler that can keep up or you'll be losing more performance from thermal throttling.
- unnouinceput 7y agoWater cooling. Desktops can afford that space generously.
- sdflhasjd 7y agoTrue, but when you're approaching 300W, you can only take heat away so fast.
- unnouinceput 6y agoMy current desktop water cooling setup can handle 700W under load easily. After setting it up my test was to actually spin everything up under 100% load with 2 crypto miners (1 for GPU and one for CPU, in 2014) and did it for 10 hours straight. Peak temp was 60 degree Celsius in hot July. Why I never continued with that? Because at the time bitcoin was 120 dollars and the electricity was 10 times more expensive. According to worker pool I joined at the time in those 10 hours I've earned 3 cents. Anyway, back to topic - I trust my water cooling 100% (also I made it manually because I like to build things).