Thanks for the deep review and entertaining reading, as usual. I'm still digesting the Sesame Street reference. It stroke a deep chord as it reminded me of the Muppets (Sesame Street wasn't a big part of my childhood. The show for some reason wasn't available here until later. But The Muppets where everywhere). And even today I love it when they do that back and forth thing and all the moving in and out of the screen. No one hasn't lived until they laughed at
Mahna Mahna.
So yeah, wow. What a throwback! Thanks for that.
It will be interesting to see where air cooling goes from here but until next time, today's episode has been brought to you by the letters T, and G and by the number 2
Interesting is the right word I'd say. I sincerely hope this is the last of this trend and something technologically revolutionary shows up, or we've seen the last of air cooling capabilities. Because bigger-is-better isn't just cutting it anymore.
As impressive as these coolers may be, I'm not in the mood to subject my vertical mobo setup to a 1 kg pressure for one, and not thrilled about adding a new clearance variable to my list of worries when buying hardware, for another.
Admittedly these are enthusiast products. But only to the extent that they can offer a solution beyond normal power usage. I can see myself interested in those temps and I'm not an OCer by any stretch of the mind. However, they are starting to present challenges that are just throwing us back in time. So, it should be interesting indeed. This will be either the last we've seen of air coolers, the start of a period of sheer madness (possibly the most likely), or the beginning of a better generation based on new technologies to bring the size down.