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A buyer might need to ask themselves if they're good with a liquid-cooled setup. Because moving past air-cooled is expensive & potentially messy.
by r00fus 6y ago
A buyer might need to ask themselves if they're good with a liquid-cooled setup. Because moving past air-cooled is expensive & potentially messy.
- Drew_ 6y agoI very much doubt these processors actually require liquid cooling.
- beervirus 6y agoNah, they'll just throttle.
- Drew_ 6y agoThe test bed for this review uses a "Thermalright TRUE Copper" cooler which looks to be an air cooler from the mid-to-late 2000's. Needless to say Anandtech probably didn't run their benchmarks with insufficient cooling.
- pphysch 6y agoWhat do you mean? 250W is nuts.
- Drew_ 6y agoThe test bed in this review uses a decade old air cooler and the "real world" power draw was measured to be 125-150W peaking at 200W.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoLiquid cooking is not expensive nor messy in the current age. In Europe I can find a half decent 120mm AIO for less than $50 ATM. It's only expensive and messy if you go ball to the walls custom loop.
- willis936 6y agoI avoid liquid cooling because it is well known that even high quality CLC will lose coolant through tubing over the course of years. At about 5-7 years you will need to crack open the CLC and pour some more DI water in. Thermal paste replacement is a bit less messy, and even then the failure of thermal paste can be more graceful if you make good decision (ie avoid liquid metal). I consider myself a power user and I'm closing in on six years on my current build. I'm not sure I want to bother with CLC when air has almost as good thermal performance for less money and maintenance.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoWhile I agree with you, if you're building a small ITX system, 120mm AIOs are your only option that can fit in a tight space and offer you good cooling since ultra slim air coolers are too weak for any performance CPU.
- sbierwagen 6y agoA 1x120mm AIO will have trouble rejecting 250 watts of heat and staying under 80C.
- ben-schaaf 6y agoConsidering a NH-U14S can cool the 3990x, a 280W TDP chip, large air coolers won't have a problem with this chip.
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