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> (I include the CPU fan because it made me laugh while I was installing it. So ridiculous.)

don't know what to think of that part... fans are serious business, nothing to laugh about. think about them before they die on you or you're toast.

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Probably a bit OT, but I just built my first new gaming PC since high school (late 90's), and I bought a highly rated fan; this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608... . Now, if you read that description, the outer fan is 120mm and the inner one is 140mm, but that really doesn't hit home until you open the box, and the thing is the size of your head. PC heatsink/fans have really come a long way over the past decade or so. I laughed when I saw my fan, too.

Perhaps he was laughing about the fact that the fan has a name like a rapper from 1985.

Just look at it. It IS ridiculous.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n47WBQI31eE/maxresdefault.jpg

They are a pain to install but they worked through the sheer size and surface area. That said these tower type heatsinks seems to have gone out of the vogue after all. Back in 2010 people used to go out of their way to bake thermal grease, mesure wind pressure and do all sorts of crazy things to queeze an extra bit of heat dissipation out of them. Not the case anymore. A lot of well known brands have virtually disappeared over the past couple of years.

Efficient yet sensible heatsinks are still in short supply, and you have to look into overpriced server/workstation vendors to get them.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835184...

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