Ok. This may seem like a stupid question, but forgive me;
I'm relatively new to the PC building scene.
I've had many computers over the years, and they've all been pre-builts from brands such as Acer, Dell, HP, etc.
These PCs never had any cooling in them other than the CPU cooler and one on the power supply. I've upgraded the GPUs, etc, but, I've never had any trouble with temperature: when monitoring, the core/GPU temps are always in line with what they should be, and I've never experienced any thermal throttling.
Some of these were high end I5 and I7 systems too.
Now when I see PC enthusiast builds, there seems to be a crazy amount of emphasis on the cooling, water cooling, LOADS of extra fans, Case fans, fans everywhere.
Why is this, if just running with a CPU and power supply cooler does the job just fine?
I'm relatively new to the PC building scene.
I've had many computers over the years, and they've all been pre-builts from brands such as Acer, Dell, HP, etc.
These PCs never had any cooling in them other than the CPU cooler and one on the power supply. I've upgraded the GPUs, etc, but, I've never had any trouble with temperature: when monitoring, the core/GPU temps are always in line with what they should be, and I've never experienced any thermal throttling.
Some of these were high end I5 and I7 systems too.
Now when I see PC enthusiast builds, there seems to be a crazy amount of emphasis on the cooling, water cooling, LOADS of extra fans, Case fans, fans everywhere.
Why is this, if just running with a CPU and power supply cooler does the job just fine?