2020 CPU Air Cooling Refresh

David_Schroth

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Earlier this year, we refreshed our AIO test bench table to test claims such as dissipating “500+ W” of heat. Since then, we’ve seen a number of AIOs come across the test bench and there’s been one thing in common – the overclocked 10980XE simply demolishes anything with less than a 280mm radiator. Even at stock clocks, a cooler like the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO would go nuclear after about a minute under load. Using a bit of common sense, we decided that we should set up a separate air cooling testing rig that puts CPU coolers into a fight that they have a chance at winning.



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