Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get?
bisby@lemmy.world 4 days agoBoost clocks depend on thermal headroom. Better cooling will get you better performance still, even if you aren’t manually over clocking.
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
A good air cooler, which is cheap, gives you all the headroom you need.
bisby@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t disagree. But cooling performance does impact CPU performance in some cases even without “overclocking”
And in very hot running chips, it can start to matter.