The thermals on the K8's are so good they hardly need watercooling, and the extra hassle may buy you what, 100-200 extra MHz when OCing over *good* aircooling?
The games we play nowadays either just plain suck, or are mostly GPU limited. The graphic card companies wised up and started laser cutting pipelines rather than just downclocking cheaper cards.
Those shmancy heatpipes are pretty quiet too.
Water cooling is a fun hobby at least.
It's 'nice' to see low numbers in that MBM box down on the task bar, but who cares? Does any hobbyist really use a cpu for more than a year or two anyway?
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