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An air cooler Lasts basically forever, and if the fan fails there is still a block of metal there. AIO has the potential for pump failure, eventual coolant evaporation, and they are a little less easy to mount. None are terribly big concerns, but it is something when compared to a D15

And then we're back into the budget conversation, right? The Artic Liquid freezer II 280mm is around $100 and is a full featured solution. You get better performance than a D15 by around 5 degrees while costing about the same price, but an AIO come with the overhead of being an AIO instead of...

Are the fans that come with AIO any better than the fans from a 5pack of Artic P12s / P14s? If not, then you're replacing the fans on the AIO as well - I don't think there are any AIOs with Noctua fans.

Just poking around a little bit at Tech Powerup (one of the few sites left I know of doing custom block reviews), a custom loop with high end block, D5, and 360mm radiator, is worth 15-20 c better average core temp than AIOs. Now, frustratingly, TPU doesn't use the same processor / system for...

If this is the case, and the IHS is 100% the limiting factor, there wouldn't be improvements going to a custom loop with a top end water block. While I haven't been following waterblock development over the last year or two, my assumption is high end waterblocks, with a pump like a D5, are...

The below chart from GN is an example of what I mean - the Artic Liquid Freezer II 360 with 10.2% more mm2 is only yielding a 2.6% improvement to cooling performance with fans running 10% faster in RPM when compared to the 280mm version. My guess is if you ran the 140mm fans to get the same RPM...

The question I have is - can the pump and block integrated into the AIO make much use with the extra area? I'm sure my D5 with an Optimus Foundation Block can see some benefit to the extra space, but I have little faith that a whole AIO that costs less than the foundation block gets anything...

Note: I'm using NF-A14s in my current custom loop. They are fine at 750rpm for running when the system isn't in heavy use. They are also fine at 2000 rpm when running with noise canceling headphones.

I'm getting more and more convinced that a 280 AIO with good fans is the sweet spot for AIOs. Even if you go bigger, the pump and block aren't really of enough quality to show any improvements, so if you need more cooling than a 280, you might as well go custom loop. I would love to see...

It's not just office tasks either. The X58 system my buddy's kid was using was apparently fine for rocket league, counter strike, WoW, League of Legends, and other things. Of course, that system started at 3gb ram and an i7-920 and ended up with both ram and CPU upgrades.

HEDT used to have really long legs. I had friends that built i7-920s and Sandy Bridge Es that stretched them for 10 years (or more!) and they could get away with that through strategic upgrades and just the benefits from the platform itself. AM4 had a pretty good lifespan for the friends that...

I miss the days of the prosumer coming out first in a product stack. Basically you can buy this threadripper now, or wait until March (?) and get a 8950 which will be faster per core for dramatically less cost.

I got all the MMO privateer I ever needed with Eve Online. I might eventually check out squadron 42, but my days of burning 20+ hours / week on MMOs is over and likely never to return

Needs more RGB if it’s REALLY for gamers

I’m still using my raspberry pi 3 and my HDHomeRun with my cable card - been using it since 2013. Of course I can’t install Netflix on it, but I don’t particularly care - the only thing I subscribe to is Disney+

Google? Amazon?

Is the block based on javascript? I don't really use youtube much because the ads piss me off and it's not worth paying for, but this feels like something that should be fairly easy to work around with uMatrix.

Personally, since centos went away, I’ve been using oracle Linux. Never really got on the Ubuntu / Debian train. Work has always used red hat (across multiple companies), so I just felt like keeping the same platform at home.

I like the volume roller on my old Logitech G710+, and I used some of the G keys on that keyboard for vim shortcuts. That said I wouldn’t seek either one out as a reason to buy a keyboard, and this seems to have the priority in the wrong place

My last 2 consoles: Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. After that, I said if you couldn’t make your game for PC, I wasn’t interested in it