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Looking at the reviews of the Noctua air cooler, it does better than those giant water coolers.
by madengr 6y ago
Looking at the reviews of the Noctua air cooler, it does better than those giant water coolers.
- eropple 6y agoAir coolers can do a better job than AIOs depending on the situation, for sure. I use a Noctua air cooler on my 3900X, and it's great. But when I had the same cooler on a 2700X, it was awful, and moving to a Corsair H60 (120mm radiator with a single fan) was a huge improvement. ...because the 3900X is in a full-tower Fractal Design case and the 2700X is in a cramped 4U HTPC case by Silverstone which is rackmounted into a Gator traveling case. There's just no airflow inside the case and the AIO specific heat transfer is critical.