Several things about cooling

Hi all

I've noticed, that ppl are becoming totally obsessed about cooling lately, with no reason, for my opinion

Heat is a normal attribute of any electronic device.
Installing 5 fans for a single box is fun, but not more then that ...
Water-cooling system for PC ? Well, you can pave the box with gold too (excuse me my sarcastic laugh).

Basically you need
1 fan for CPU (OK, double fan, or the BIG one).
1 for VGA (if it uses graphics acceleration)
+ it's good to have 1 case fan (in addition to psf, of course)

That's all, that's how it comes with brand name machines.
That's how it's usually assembled

So if you can touch the CPU heat sink, your CPU is just fine. It's always tested to work properly in typical enviroment, and so it does, without additional cooling systems. (I'm talking about PC here, not echelon systems).


OK. It's been proved that special cooling techniques can improve total system efficiency up to 50%, but again on specific machine with very specific cooling system (not to talk about $$$)

I hope you've got my point



Cheers
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