What is your priority for buying cooling equipment?

[RevGAM]

If you want to add more details, please do so here. 

[Srijan Verma]

My top 2 priorities are always price and performance but they rarely go together

[jaslion]

Price and performance thats where it ends for me.

 

Noise levels maybe? But like if somethinf is performant and priced well not being too loud goes hand in hand basically these days

[RevGAM]

1 minute ago, Srijan Verma said:

My top 2 priorities are always price and performance but they rarely go together

Yeah, I totally understand. Most of my life I was stuck in that position. Now that I'm undead, I just don't care about money. After all, you don't need any when you have no bills and live in a grave.

[PDifolco]

Performance, noise levels and ease of maintenance/upgrade for me

Brand is important here as there's like a few good brands (Noctua, Arctic..) and a lot of meh/bad ones 

Price isn't a huge concern to me as the most expensive coolers (AIO) are show off RGB thingies (hello Corsair and LL) I don't much care about 

 

 

[hoppychomper]

I thought this thread was about cooking equipment... I think I may need glasses

[RevGAM]

7 minutes ago, hoppychomper said:

I thought this thread was about cooking equipment... I think I may need glasses

Well, if you have a good tip on roasting your boss, let me know!  

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Price performance are ontop, also just sheer cooling capacity which also falls into performance, noise is also important but not a major worry

 

hence why my favourite coolers that you can buy would be dirt cheap lga 775 copper cores/beefy am3 copper heatsinks (if you can find these for as cheap as the 775 coolers), or the peerless assassin 120 / ak/ag620 whichever is cheaper

 

 

As for what id use personally ill either stop being lazy and cobble together my ghetto loop or i skip that entirely and buy a used outdoor ac unit or 2 to make a phase change cooler, power consumption might be atrocious but keep lowering temp and power consumption of the cpu will also lower

[Whatisthis]

On 8/23/2023 at 4:43 AM, Srijan Verma said:

My top 2 priorities are always price and performance but they rarely go together

Well, they do go up together.  

 

I don’t like a jet engine screaming by my ear anymore, so performance per noise is an important metric for me.

[TeraSeraph]

Noise to performance is the main  focus for me. I can't stand a noisy computer during play or browsing/watching content. 

 

I use a mix of Iceberg Thermal and Noctua fans which are priced nearly the same but have different approaches to noise and performance. Noctua is quieter overall with good airflow, while Iceberg has such high efficiency blades that the fans can be run slower and just as quiet with the same airflow.

 

"Performance" is quite subjective as to what it means as it's the sum of a few areas rather than a defined objective statistic. 

[freeagent]

My votes have been cast.

 

You must be able to chop produce.

 

It is like the bird strike test on jet engines 

[RevGAM]

23 hours ago, TeraSeraph said:

Noise to performance is the main  focus for me. I can't stand a noisy computer during play or browsing/watching content. 

 

I use a mix of Iceberg Thermal and Noctua fans which are priced nearly the same but have different approaches to noise and performance. Noctua is quieter overall with good airflow, while Iceberg has such high efficiency blades that the fans can be run slower and just as quiet with the same airflow.

 

"Performance" is quite subjective as to what it means as it's the sum of a few areas rather than a defined objective statistic. 

Well, for me it's about how well it does at cooling, since I separated noise from it. 

[TeraSeraph]

On 8/26/2023 at 6:41 AM, freeagent said:

My votes have been cast.

 

You must be able to chop produce.

 

It is like the bird strike test on jet engines 

IceGALE Xtra 140mm are dangerous. Sharp enough and heavy enough to chop through veggies.