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There are 'solutions' to this [1] https://www.bequiet.com/en/cpucooler/3351 or the smaller [2] https://www.bequiet.com/en/cpucooler/1074 if one doesn't need up to 250W CPU cooling performance. This 'top-blow/blow down' stuff has other benefits, though, since more airstream is reaching the VRMs and the RAM. (usually, sometimes not, as it depends on layout of the board) edit: I know there are many, many otheres, compar…
It's not a waste from an aesthetic perspective. Some people treat their builds like a functional art piece and don't want that giant hunk of metal in the middle of their case. A water cooled setup moves the bulk of the cooler to the edge of the case.
What I would understand were if it had some function, like varying the colors and slowly pulsing, or brightness according to temperature and various loads, split into where it's making sense.
I don't know, something measured via eBPF piped into https://openrgb.org/ ?
Does this exist? Am I so out of the loop that I'm unaware of it? The only thing I've seen so far was changing color according to fan speed. Otherwise only decoupled cycling of color-patterns.
Anyway, I prefer black/grey/silver and otherwise featureless monoliths for now ;->
edit: something like that seems to exist https://gitlab.com/OpenRGBDevelopers/OpenRGBHardwareSyncPlug...
OTOH hardware support seems to be wonky, because all proprietary, has to be reverse engineered, may sometimes brick your device, or isn't exposed at all under Linux (AMD-GPU).
Well... thanks, but NO.
(What about security btw.?)