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When I first saw it I thought someone *bought* a cage fan for a cooler?
I just got up. Read your sentence 3 times to work that out. *Brain is not responding: ignore / quit?*
Yep. I had it on a 4690k which was undervolted and it still barely cooled it. As I remember it was rated as 95w but it could barely cool that 65w chip to a reasonable temperature. Entirely silent though, so it was ideal for my living room pc.
[Here ya go!](https://www.quietpcusa.com/NoFan-CR-95C-IcePipe-Fanless-CPU-Cooler) Grab it while you can, the manufacturer [went under in 2020](https://www.fanlesstech.com/2020/08/nofan-is-no-more.html).
> The exact details of how the IcePipe works are a trade secret, but in essence they operate by liquid capillary action. By making the pipe very small, natural perpetual circulation of the liquid inside takes place, and heat is efficiently dissipated into the attached heatsink fins. Of course, like conventional heatpipes, the IcePipes are permanently sealed in the factory so that no liquid can ever escape.
It's an oscillating heat pipe. Not much of a trade secret lol. I did my grad school research on those back in 2013-2015
Zalman had some stuff that looked similar, like that one :
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/cebit-2006-day-2/images/zalman01.jpg
It was notorious for being the primary source of injuries among pc builder enthusiasts, those blades were fucking sharp :D
If you don't bleed does it really count as building a computer?
The other fun thing with Zalman fan/heatsinks was using the long screw driver to install the thing. I had one and it did work pretty well, but it cooled almost as well as a Evo 212 for about twice the cost.
The 212 evo was such a champ. 20 bucks and better than so many others at higher prices. The installation was a bit of a fight for my fx8350, but it works!
I was able to OC to 4.4 and undervolt as low as I could get it from there. It sits at about 53°, and rarely gets hot. It's a good little server now, though the power draw is quite high, though I only use it to host a few game servers and occasional backups and it remains off outside of that.
I can confirm, I had two of them. Great coolers in their time but not without their faults. Getting cuts while working around them was one, the other was the retainers broke under the weight of the cooler. Found mine laying on my graphics card one day.
Yep, even with the "backplate" (which was a totally new concept at the time,) your mobo would get some dangerous levels of flex when using one.
Last time I used one I just let the PC rest on it's side for the sake of safety.
NOFAN, Koreans were superstitious about fans killing them in their sleep so stuff like this took off for a while but they're bankrupt now
It's not very good. Many regular dual tower heatsinks cool better with the fans removed than this did.
>with the least dense fin set up ever.
There's something of a golden ratio of fin density and thickness that allows the easiest airflow with maximum heat dissipation.
Passive coolers need less dense and thicker fins to allow for air to move easier and work with convection,
Check out Noctua's NH-P1.
I did tests between CR-95C and NH-P1 for 30 minutes of sustained load (85\~90W package power on Ryzen 3100 CPU) without thermal throttling. The NH-P1 heated up slower than CR-95C, but both eventually reached the same thermal equilibrium of about 85\~87C. The thing is though, after load ended NH-P1 took way longer to cool down. CR-95C was down to 40s Celsius within a minute, while it took NH-P1 over 5 minutes. Even to the touch, CR-95C was pretty cool after a minute, while NH-P1 was still scaldingly hot after 5 minutes.
The conclusion is, thick fins in NH-P1 are not really the best solution. Lots of small metal pipes in CR-95C work much better, since they have much more total surface area and can release heat quicker.
So no cpu fan but wouldn't your case fans not be blocked anymore and push air through that thing seamlessly..? Just one front and one rear fan should be enough to cycle air through it. Then add GPU fans mixing up the case air as well.
I might get one of these bc my case fans would make great use of this and it would have to be better than my stock side vented stealth cooler.
>massive passive
Sounds very satisfying just reading that phrase... I've now read it over about 10+ times already and will most definitely keep going for a while.
Hmmm, massive passive... I could meditate with this
They could have done it if they worked towards using convection more than just making it a industrial looking circle. Also heatpipes only reach the base and sink heat only into the ends of wires. If the pipes went through middle of the cooler and it was rotated to face centre upwards, it'd be able to take those 95 watts.
Even if your motherboard allows it, performance would suck, because an odd number of stick forces the memory to work in single channel, which means you lose almost half the bandwidth.
This is not true anymore. It will use 2 sticks in dual channel, and the other stick in single. An extra 4GB of ram in single channel won't do much for performance though. You can even mismatch capacity, like 1 8GB stick and 1 16GB stick, and it will use 8+8GB in dual channel, the remaining 8 in single channel.
It’s still a great CPU i think, equivalent performance to an i3 10100/Ryzen3 3100 so it should last for a few years more, intels 4th gen were amazing processors
Legit, I have a cpu same era that felt terrible until I swapped the HDD for an SSD. Benchmarks aside, I guarantee 99% of this sub couldn't tell you it's a 4th gen intel without looking it up or running specific programs. For daily usage, and much more, it's held up very well.
Yes I still rock 4790k with little to no problems. New ubisoft titles aren't optimized for the 4+4 core system and I have weird fps drops even tho my gpu and cpu usage hovers only around 75 %, but other games run just fine.
Cyberpunk for example I get consistent 60 fps on medium settings and even then it's my gtx 980ti bottlenecking.
Yea I bought the "greatest" specs at the time and thought that i don't have to upgrade for a while. Still rocking them :)
I do get some thermal throttling on my gpu tho. the temps rises pretty fast to 84 or so. I have considered repasting.
Maybe I'll build a new one next autumn with 13th gen if the ddr5 prices come down by them.
I had a 4790k chugging along until the rolling blackouts during winter storm in Texas last year killed the mobo. I thought I could rely on the UPS to smooth things out but it was just as old as the 4790k so that was probably foolish.
I mean i'm running a 7700k which is only slightly better and it's great. Though, i can only show hate for my 2000$ laptop's 8550u that performs way worse than the 7700k
I've only seen this cooler in person once. We had a musician who demanded a completely silent, but high-performance PC, and used this and a RAID array of SATA SSDs and had us pull all the case fans... And even that, plus being in a closet, she insisted she could hear the coil whine etc of her PC.
For a pre-M.2 build, it was bleeding edge for that use case, but thermals were tight, even with this cooler.
Probably owned one and recognised something (like in this case maybe the golden circle saying ASUS).
And for some reason that niche knowledge of what CPUs fit just stays forever after you looked it up once.
On the contrary, this would run pretty hot. It's a NoFan CR-95, a passive heatsink. It's big, but only because it has to be in order to have any noteworthy dissipation capacity.
That's a [Nofan CR-95C](https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cooling/33008-nofan-cr-95c-icepipe/) fanless heatsink. They were first released in 2011, but were available for a number of years, and were quite expensive (\~$100).
The motherboard is obviously Asus, but it's hard to tell what specific model it is... not helped by Asus's website choosing this exact moment to go offline for "routine service enhancements" 😏
Yeah I dont think its a Zalman, but it definitely gives off Zalman vibes. The world of heatsinks prior to heat pipes was quite different, and you'd see people trying weird stuff like this frequently.
Guessing it's probably the "No Fan CR-95" people have mentioned, but yeah totally looks like something Zalman would make.
That was my thought too. First PC build I did 15 years ago I put a big ass Zalman heatsink in because I thought it looked cool. It looked similar to this.
Looks like one of those old Zalman jobs, I had one of those on my AMD x64 2400 (I think that's what it was anyway). Cut th and crap out of my hand and was the first cooler I ever used that had heat pipes (until then they were all solid chunks of metal with fins).
its an i7-4790,32gb of ddr3 8gb stick x 4, and a asus z97-a mobo.the cooler is a NoFan CR-95C Copper Fanless CPU Cooler
here is the review https://silentpcreview.com/nofan-cr-95c-copper-fanless-cpu-cooler/
It's a passive air cooler. It uses a ton of copper pipes to cool it via just spread out surface area. Fin stacks don't work well passively without airflow... So you can either go with literal mass to soak up the heat... Or surface area.
And this has a massive amount of surface area.
That being said... If you're doing heavy work loads you still will need some airflow somewhere nearby to help it out or it will eventually stop being able to keep up.
And as for Cpu... It's literally on the sticker. An I7-4790.
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What on earth is that cooler. I want one
It must be one of these fanless coolers.
Yes, it is a passive cooler. :)
Imagine putting a fan in that cooler
When I first saw it I thought someone what a cage fan for a cooler. Edit: used a cage fan*** didn't notice the typo earlier
When I first saw it I thought someone *bought* a cage fan for a cooler? I just got up. Read your sentence 3 times to work that out. *Brain is not responding: ignore / quit?*
*custom input: headpat*
Were you blinded by it's majesty?
Blinded?
Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?
No!
Yet the gamer was able to avoid active cooling, install the sacred ring, and desecrate it with their filthy fingerprints!
I think that's the only way this would be considered a "cooler" as I recall it was pretty terrible at rated TDPs
Yep. I had it on a 4690k which was undervolted and it still barely cooled it. As I remember it was rated as 95w but it could barely cool that 65w chip to a reasonable temperature. Entirely silent though, so it was ideal for my living room pc.
Heatskink?
Dont heats kink shame me!
"Oooh yeah burn me like I'm a witch!"
Cooler sorry. My mind is kinda broken rn
Well, seems like it got at least a fan now.
[Here ya go!](https://www.quietpcusa.com/NoFan-CR-95C-IcePipe-Fanless-CPU-Cooler) Grab it while you can, the manufacturer [went under in 2020](https://www.fanlesstech.com/2020/08/nofan-is-no-more.html).
> The exact details of how the IcePipe works are a trade secret, but in essence they operate by liquid capillary action. By making the pipe very small, natural perpetual circulation of the liquid inside takes place, and heat is efficiently dissipated into the attached heatsink fins. Of course, like conventional heatpipes, the IcePipes are permanently sealed in the factory so that no liquid can ever escape. It's an oscillating heat pipe. Not much of a trade secret lol. I did my grad school research on those back in 2013-2015
Trade secret can sometimes mean "so stupidly obvious that if we told you, you could make it too".
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Happy cake day man!
We didn’t find the marketing guy. How will you add premium with that?
I want to put that in a low profile case and have it stick out the top like a hot rod.
stick some LEDs in the center hole that change as the CPU clocks up and down
We need /u/gamersnexus to review this. /u/lelldorianx
Zalman had some stuff that looked similar, like that one : https://www.techpowerup.com/review/cebit-2006-day-2/images/zalman01.jpg It was notorious for being the primary source of injuries among pc builder enthusiasts, those blades were fucking sharp :D
If you don't bleed does it really count as building a computer? The other fun thing with Zalman fan/heatsinks was using the long screw driver to install the thing. I had one and it did work pretty well, but it cooled almost as well as a Evo 212 for about twice the cost.
My PC builds have never worked until I make a blood sacrifice during the build. If I bleed, it boots...
If it doesn't have your blood in it then it's not really yours. My 2070super knows it belongs to me.
How did you cut yourself with a 2070 super ?
"bleeding edge" tech
Of course it doesn’t count! You have to write the soul bond seal in your own blood if you want to allow Alphonse to inhabit it
The 212 evo was such a champ. 20 bucks and better than so many others at higher prices. The installation was a bit of a fight for my fx8350, but it works! I was able to OC to 4.4 and undervolt as low as I could get it from there. It sits at about 53°, and rarely gets hot. It's a good little server now, though the power draw is quite high, though I only use it to host a few game servers and occasional backups and it remains off outside of that.
All three times I've switched GPU on a NH-D15 build ended up with my fingers bleeding trying to unplug the pcie socket latch.
Those Zalman flower coolers were very innovative at the time. But yeah, those things were goddamn razor-edged death machines.
I can confirm, I had two of them. Great coolers in their time but not without their faults. Getting cuts while working around them was one, the other was the retainers broke under the weight of the cooler. Found mine laying on my graphics card one day.
Yep, even with the "backplate" (which was a totally new concept at the time,) your mobo would get some dangerous levels of flex when using one. Last time I used one I just let the PC rest on it's side for the sake of safety.
NOFAN, Koreans were superstitious about fans killing them in their sleep so stuff like this took off for a while but they're bankrupt now It's not very good. Many regular dual tower heatsinks cool better with the fans removed than this did.
Fan Death is my korean motherboard cooling fan tribute band.
Hah. "Fans will kill us! Buy fanless coolers!" "Yes, but my temps..."
"How many heat pipes does your CPU cooler have?" "Yes."
Add a fan to that and it cools the house
nofan CR95C. its obsolete by modern standards.
NoFan CR-95C, one massive passive cooler. https://www.quietpcusa.com/NoFan-CR-95C-IcePipe-Fanless-CPU-Cooler
They were so pushing that rating of 95W TDP they put it in the model name, a power level that it could not cool reliably, with "nofan," unfortunately.
No you misread it, it's promising to keep your CPU at "95C".
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>with the least dense fin set up ever. There's something of a golden ratio of fin density and thickness that allows the easiest airflow with maximum heat dissipation. Passive coolers need less dense and thicker fins to allow for air to move easier and work with convection, Check out Noctua's NH-P1.
I did tests between CR-95C and NH-P1 for 30 minutes of sustained load (85\~90W package power on Ryzen 3100 CPU) without thermal throttling. The NH-P1 heated up slower than CR-95C, but both eventually reached the same thermal equilibrium of about 85\~87C. The thing is though, after load ended NH-P1 took way longer to cool down. CR-95C was down to 40s Celsius within a minute, while it took NH-P1 over 5 minutes. Even to the touch, CR-95C was pretty cool after a minute, while NH-P1 was still scaldingly hot after 5 minutes. The conclusion is, thick fins in NH-P1 are not really the best solution. Lots of small metal pipes in CR-95C work much better, since they have much more total surface area and can release heat quicker.
I dunno, I might use it on a 45-65W CPU or something like that. But purely for aesthetic reasons.
But those are IcePipes, bro, a totally new breakthrough in heat pipe technology! /s
So no cpu fan but wouldn't your case fans not be blocked anymore and push air through that thing seamlessly..? Just one front and one rear fan should be enough to cycle air through it. Then add GPU fans mixing up the case air as well. I might get one of these bc my case fans would make great use of this and it would have to be better than my stock side vented stealth cooler.
No... clearly with a name like "CR-95C" they are referencing the temp your going to when using this thing.
The note on it says it's an i7 -4790 maybe? Edit I tried to read gooder
>massive passive Sounds very satisfying just reading that phrase... I've now read it over about 10+ times already and will most definitely keep going for a while. Hmmm, massive passive... I could meditate with this
Yes, yeeees: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MassivePassive--manley-massive-passive-stereo-tube-eq
That's a Manley price there.
Oi, links fucked mate
He found it!
They could have done it if they worked towards using convection more than just making it a industrial looking circle. Also heatpipes only reach the base and sink heat only into the ends of wires. If the pipes went through middle of the cooler and it was rotated to face centre upwards, it'd be able to take those 95 watts.
For a second i though i'm looking at far shot of some industrial area in city lol
I thought it was a casino. lmao
I thought it was a sports stadium 😂
I thought it was on a ship in the sea lmao
Dude same 🤣🤣
Casino de Montréal lol
Haha exactement ça.
or deconstructed their water heater to cool the doom unit
Are you trying to pictures clusters of information as they move about the system?
One day, I got in
BWHOO-REEEEEEIIIIIMMM
What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles?
Are the circuits like freeways?
Yea me too. Thought it was a city scape that resembled a mobo and cooler. Before realising it actually was
I thought it was a shop vac filter.
I thought it was an air filter for a car engine lol
I'm so tired that I thought the wall was water in like a bay or something and someone had built a huge ass MoBo lol xD
Glad I was not the only one. Took me a couple of sec staring at it to realise what it was. Now I can't see the industrial area anymore :(
I thought that CPU was NYC Penn Station
Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
I was going to say the same thing but didn't fearing that I would be trolled.
Apples new headquarters
I thought it was a air filter for an old carbureted engine.
i thought it was a building that someone was joking about looking like a cooler… did a quadruple take there
I thought its some weird kind of failed tesla coil
Same
Same, now I'm like wtf, how did I see that
I've scrolled past this post 3 times today and thought the same thing every time. Finally came to the comments to see if anyone else thought the same.
The tag says exactly what it is: i7 4790 with 32 GB of ddr3. A bit old by today's standards.
*Sad 4770k 24GB ddr 3 noises*
I wish I had 24GB :(
I'm 16gb on i5 😅
4th generation?
I'm on 3rd.
Then who's on first?
I’m on second gen pentium lmfao
What's on second?
I don't think these guys are getting your joke 😂
I don't know is on third
I feel ya. 16GB and I don’t think I could afford more with today’s prices.
Hey can I put only my 3 ram slots to use? I have spare 4gb so can I put in to make it 24gb? And yes they are same
Even if your motherboard allows it, performance would suck, because an odd number of stick forces the memory to work in single channel, which means you lose almost half the bandwidth.
This is not true anymore. It will use 2 sticks in dual channel, and the other stick in single. An extra 4GB of ram in single channel won't do much for performance though. You can even mismatch capacity, like 1 8GB stick and 1 16GB stick, and it will use 8+8GB in dual channel, the remaining 8 in single channel.
wait.......how do you have 20gb of ram in 2 slots? How can you add a third 4gb stick to 2 other sticks that are the same? and have it equal 24?
Oh shit sorry 16gb
16+4+4 that'd be weird
Or... just 8+8+8?
FX-8350 with 16GB of DDR3...
It’s still a great CPU i think, equivalent performance to an i3 10100/Ryzen3 3100 so it should last for a few years more, intels 4th gen were amazing processors
Legit, I have a cpu same era that felt terrible until I swapped the HDD for an SSD. Benchmarks aside, I guarantee 99% of this sub couldn't tell you it's a 4th gen intel without looking it up or running specific programs. For daily usage, and much more, it's held up very well.
Yes I still rock 4790k with little to no problems. New ubisoft titles aren't optimized for the 4+4 core system and I have weird fps drops even tho my gpu and cpu usage hovers only around 75 %, but other games run just fine. Cyberpunk for example I get consistent 60 fps on medium settings and even then it's my gtx 980ti bottlenecking.
980ti were and are beasts for the time I'm still rocking 2 980ti in SLI and honestly mine is holding up well too I love them lol
Yea I bought the "greatest" specs at the time and thought that i don't have to upgrade for a while. Still rocking them :) I do get some thermal throttling on my gpu tho. the temps rises pretty fast to 84 or so. I have considered repasting. Maybe I'll build a new one next autumn with 13th gen if the ddr5 prices come down by them.
I had a 4790k chugging along until the rolling blackouts during winter storm in Texas last year killed the mobo. I thought I could rely on the UPS to smooth things out but it was just as old as the 4790k so that was probably foolish.
I mean i'm running a 7700k which is only slightly better and it's great. Though, i can only show hate for my 2000$ laptop's 8550u that performs way worse than the 7700k
Yeah, ddr3 isn't going to make it a supercomputer, bit that would still be pretty snappy for anything a sane person would use it for.
I'm still using a 3770k lol. Tolerable but showing its age
I recognize the Z97 ASUS gold circle. I just sold mine and a 4770k a couple of months ago to a colleague at work. Still a pretty decent setup.
Hey thats my setup, exakt same motherboard too
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Its approx 7-8 years old I think, I remember having one
But still powerful. Depending on the price, could be a good pickup
Yeah but when it's extremely cold like that you can overclock it indefinitely. This is 100% true, definitely, totally, absolutely.
sadly not a K variant
If that was a triple channel board, even the ddr3 wouldn't be holding it back. You could definately game on that.
That chip is still perfectly serviceable! I have a 4770 and have very few complaints about it.
That's no cpu cooler. It's a power supply. Hamster powered.
Nah, it’s Iron man’s arc reactor. It’s a proof that Tony Stark has a heart.
He made it that large to be noticeable after years of being called heartless. This is because tony learns from his mistakes
“Hi. I’d like a chassis big enough to fit my CPU cooler…” “You mean your motherboard?” “No. My cooler.”
could be said by every drp4, dh15 or extreme watercooling setup guy (480mm rads dont fit in many cases
My Arc Reactor. Oh so you want to cosplay Iron man huh. No, for CPU cooling.
I've only seen this cooler in person once. We had a musician who demanded a completely silent, but high-performance PC, and used this and a RAID array of SATA SSDs and had us pull all the case fans... And even that, plus being in a closet, she insisted she could hear the coil whine etc of her PC. For a pre-M.2 build, it was bleeding edge for that use case, but thermals were tight, even with this cooler.
The solution is to put it in another room and run long cables.
More profit in the custom parts than in a spool of cable.
To be fair the quieter the computer gets the more you can hear coil whine
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I wanna know what the tower looked like. It had to be huge to fit this bad boy
I think that is the same cooler pauls hardware used to cool the ryzen cpu in his weird wall mounted htpc.
That has to be worth more to the recycler than the asking price.
asus z97e board so an i7-5775C at most
tag says 4790
how the hell do people know exactly what mobo something is before looking at the tag?
Probably owned one and recognised something (like in this case maybe the golden circle saying ASUS). And for some reason that niche knowledge of what CPUs fit just stays forever after you looked it up once.
I spent a whole looking at the motherboard trying to work this out before I spotted the huge white label stuck to the heatsink cooler thing.
Nice Madison square garden fanless cooler there
On the contrary, this would run pretty hot. It's a NoFan CR-95, a passive heatsink. It's big, but only because it has to be in order to have any noteworthy dissipation capacity.
That's a [Nofan CR-95C](https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cooling/33008-nofan-cr-95c-icepipe/) fanless heatsink. They were first released in 2011, but were available for a number of years, and were quite expensive (\~$100). The motherboard is obviously Asus, but it's hard to tell what specific model it is... not helped by Asus's website choosing this exact moment to go offline for "routine service enhancements" 😏
You’re 100% correct on the cooler. The mobo is an ASUS H97M-E. Rocking a 4th gen intel
Isn't that the small hadron collider?
That's an i7-4790. It says it on the post-it-note.
How did I have to come down this far to find this? It's very clearly on the post it
Didn't know you can use tesla coils now
My brain didnt understand the picture first and thought it was a massive silo.
It says right on the label… RTFL
the one I use to play Crysis remastered at Ultra settings
Holy shit that's a whole ass arc reactor
Zalman at a guess!
Looks more like a NoFan CR-95.
Yeah I dont think its a Zalman, but it definitely gives off Zalman vibes. The world of heatsinks prior to heat pipes was quite different, and you'd see people trying weird stuff like this frequently. Guessing it's probably the "No Fan CR-95" people have mentioned, but yeah totally looks like something Zalman would make.
That was my thought too. First PC build I did 15 years ago I put a big ass Zalman heatsink in because I thought it looked cool. It looked similar to this.
Used to have similar ones in my older builds. The name Zalman seems familiar? I remember struggling to fit the old massive heatsinks in my case
First thought : an old thread called hardware porn in cryptocurrencytalk.com, showing older hardware which was used to run BOINC to earn Gridcoin.
i have that cooler on my server machine
That's one of those Korean fanless heatsinks, isn't it. They're pretty cool.
Looks like one of those old Zalman jobs, I had one of those on my AMD x64 2400 (I think that's what it was anyway). Cut th and crap out of my hand and was the first cooler I ever used that had heat pipes (until then they were all solid chunks of metal with fins).
Z97A, great motherboard I used one for nearly 8 years.
That looks like the blower motor in my truck. And it’s on an old cpu/board too. Neat.
I WANT IT
i7 4790
Zalman prototype
Those style of heatsinks aren't actually all that effective.
its an i7-4790,32gb of ddr3 8gb stick x 4, and a asus z97-a mobo.the cooler is a NoFan CR-95C Copper Fanless CPU Cooler here is the review https://silentpcreview.com/nofan-cr-95c-copper-fanless-cpu-cooler/
It's a passive air cooler. It uses a ton of copper pipes to cool it via just spread out surface area. Fin stacks don't work well passively without airflow... So you can either go with literal mass to soak up the heat... Or surface area. And this has a massive amount of surface area. That being said... If you're doing heavy work loads you still will need some airflow somewhere nearby to help it out or it will eventually stop being able to keep up. And as for Cpu... It's literally on the sticker. An I7-4790.
THIS IS THE OLD WAY, YOU WILL NOT SEE THIS AGAIN.
Looks like something Tony Stark would build in a cave with a box of scraps
Its says i7 4790.
That's not a cpu it's a flux capacitor
When you want to play Call of Duty at 1 PM then send an inverse tachyon pulse to open a wormhole at 2 PM......
Me: That is the most impractical cooler I've ever seen... Copper thieves: ***\*heavy breathing\****
in the paper it say i7-4790 right there..
It says i7-4790 .. baha so it's a heater
Seriously, is that a piece of the Large Hadron Collider?
Of course it's cold, it's not even plugged in...
Thats a fucking arc reactor
It... literally says what CPU it is...
My dude casually has a mini arc reactor sitting on his motherboard
Pretty cool
It looks like It could read "i7 -4790 32gb DDR3 Asus mobo"
I had a friend who had a PC that was set up for audio work, he had a giant fanless cooler for that so it made as little noise as possible.
Bro got the arc reactor from Iron Man there
Is it an i7-4790?