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GetOffMyLawn Jul 9, 2023

Please annihilate my new build

Please annihilate my new build - Lemmy.world

So, after many…many years. I have decided to upgrade my PC. I am leaving NvidIa and going full team red for the first time. I was intel/Nvidia for years and then i switched to AMD processors for the build I am currently using but I think it’s time to wave goodbye to team green. Here is my current build from 2016/17: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4HzMGL [https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4HzMGL] and here is the new build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wgwVqm [https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wgwVqm] What do y’all think about it?

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Saneless Jul 9, 2023

An expensive CPU cooler for a 65w chip that already has a cooler that overperforms at that tpu seems like a complete waste

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GetOffMyLawn Jul 9, 2023

I have been using the stock AMD cooler on my Ryzen 1700 and it performs like crap, sometimes getting up too 95C+. After talking to my friend who has the 7700 who has temps of 85C+ on the stock cooler and switched to the D15(dropping his full load temps by 20C+/-) i decided i wanted to have better cooling. Also, I live in the PNW and don’t have air conditioning, which isn’t needed really where i live but i don’t need my computer heating my room to 80 degrees in the summer and want it to cool as well as it can, especially with that power hungry/hot GPU.

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Saneless

That’s a decent reason and all, but the CPU cooler doesn’t magically make the CPU generate less heat. It dissipates heat faster away from the CPU. Which of course just means it’s getting to your room.

Heat is heat. 100 watts of power will have the same amount of energy to dissipate with the best cooler on the planet and the worst. Your CPU will just have the heat closest to it for less or more time.

You can’t escape the laws of thermodynamics