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Air cooling is just better (usenet.lol)
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Air is better than water

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eeeehhh it's about on par

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The biggest bottleneck on both of them these days is getting the heat away from the cpu and into the cooler fast enough. Unless you're de-lidding your cpu, using a peltier or some other lower than ambient powered cooling theres probably a negligible amount in it.