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Just bought a new CPU cooler for my Linux PC.


The CPU cooler in my Linux PC was not working properly and I needed a new one. I purchased a GammaXX 200T and installed this one instead. This is much more effective than a standard Intel CPU cooler with horrible plastic push pins that get brittle with age and come loose. Then you wonder why the CPU is running at 60 degrees Celsius and is maybe thermal throttling. This does not help the longevity of your Intel CPU. So, using a proper cooling solution is the best approach to keeping your machine cool. Another solution would be water cooling, this would be overkill, but would also be very effective to maintain a safe temperature for your CPU. It would be very important to keep the water cooling system clean and maintained. I heard something from a decade or more ago that someone had connected a water cooling system to their pool and the warmed water was dumped into a massive reservoir of cold water which takes away the heat. This was in a very old copy of PC PowerPlay. But I cannot find it now. I found another example on Slashdot though.

Green piping. Nice water cooling setup with green tubing.
Green piping. Nice water cooling setup with green tubing.

Read it here: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/07/01/06/1410219/water-cooling-computers-with-a-swimming-pool

This is very interesting, maybe if the cooling water was in a closed loop, the radiator is submerged in the water and the warm liquid circulated around the loop, and the cold pool water cooled it so the cooled liquid may then circulate back through the CPU cooling assembly. You would not want Chlorinated pool water in a water cooling loop, but a closed loop of clean liquid would work just fine.


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