Do you air, passive, or water cool your rig?

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  1. 1. How do you cool your system?

    • I just use the stock heatsink and fan
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    • I use an aftermarket/3rd party heatsink and fan
      7
    • I use an All-in-One or custom water cooling system
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    • I use a passive system (i.e. a large heatsink without fans)
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I'm stock air cooling on the CPU, set to minimum level, because I rely on 4 140mm case fans for the heavy lifting (2 permanently active on lower front/back and 2 on floor/roof that are turned on when needed - gaming and summer). I'll probably have too beef it up this year since the new 390's don't run below 65°C (can probably tweak that) and it's idling around 52-56. The reason I favour air is bang for buck.

 

I've had 2 passively cooled GPU's a couple years back and it was a quick way to warm-up a room.

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Desktop has a Corsair AIO cooler.

The other computers have fans/heatsinks.  Two of them have the OEM cooler (AMD on my Freenas and Intel on my secondary HTPC).  Primary HTPC has a Scythe low profile cooler that is really quiet

 

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