Do you have an all-in-one liquid cooler on your CPU by any chance? Something like this Image
I’ve had one of these leak slow enough that after 7ish years the liquid evaporated and my CPU killed itself.
I had another fail the same way but I caught that one before the CPU failed.
HenryDorsett@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Had something similar, but for a GPU. Also corsair.
Yeah, the tubing on the AIO failed and fried the GPU.
I went back to air cooling after that, just with a lot more focus (from me) on airflow, orientation, etc.
Plus, the high end air cooling stuff is good. Like, in the 90s (decade) we dreamed of cooling that good with air, and then water cooling came along. I just never cared for the concept of water running inside my electronics.
Now if I could get that super expensive crap from 3M that isn’t conductive and has similar thermal capacities to water, and run that through a water cooling system, I’d be fine with it. Its just prohibitively expensive.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same. I went all in on noctua and haven’t looked back. Just needs a a good dusting a few times a year to maintain peak performance.