Better believe it! I’m using a 280mm at work on a Ryzen 9 3900X and the loudest thing in that machine is the tiny GPU fan (it’s a FirePro W4100, nothing fancy). I’m running a 5900X at home and can deal with the GPU fan noise when I’m rendering video, but I’m sick of hearing the fans ramp when I start Firefox. That’s annoying.
To me, that sounds like scuba-diving on Mars. 
Honestly, I have no idea of all the tech-specs you mention.
What’s the wattage your computers are drawing while running “under water”? - Did you ever care to measure?
Also, I bet you’ve got to add some nice chemicals to the water, so no algae build up inside, because that could lead to a mess-up?
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That is a spectacular desk. Looks radioactive, but highly functional. Always been a fan of that sort of thing, but never got around to doing any of it – plain vanilla computer cases for me!
I just acquired this cardboard box. It is by far the finest carton I have ever owned.
In fact, it may be the best shipping carton that has ever existed!
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Should be a lot of cats
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BTW the really amazing carton had this Lenovo Thinkpad T560 in it, in case anybody cares about dumb old computers. It had a dinky 128GB SSD in it which I immediately upgraded to 1TB with a used SSD from my junk box. It’s only got 1 stick of 8GB RAM in it but I have a 16GB kit on order. i7-6600U, 1920x1080, backlit keyboard. Not as cool as the box but I guess I’ll keep it.
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Don’t get me wrong, it’s a really nice computer, but the box is something really special…
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Nice looking cats!
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Threw in a bid on an ebay auction last night. Didn’t figure to win. I did. So I’ll be upgrading from my 3700X to a 5900X now. Will put the 5900X in eco mode so it runs @65-watt TDP instead of the default 105-watt. I don’t like the heat production of 105-watt.
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What did you end up paying?
$247.50 before shipping and taxes, $273.50 after.
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I don’t like the heat production of 105-watt.
It’s a blessing in winter though 
Yeah, but I live in Phoenix, the land that winter forgot.
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Ryzen 7 5700G + AsRock B550 ITX motherboard. Total price 320 eur shipped. Not a bad price. Finally getting rid of the old 8700K. It served me well, but it’s getting too slow and hot for modern stuff.
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Coming from a fellow 5900X owner, I suspect you’ll be happy with it. Strikes the perfect balance between multithreaded workload and gaming performance, in my opinion. You get a buttload of cores but don’t take the single-threaded performance hit of the 5950X.
i have treated myself to a ben sherman harrington jacket for my birthday, even though it is still a month away.
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It arrived!!
Edit: SLLIGHT improvement on Geekbench from it’s prior CPU
Geekbench 4 -
Geekbench 5 -
Geekbench 6-
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The summer is intense here ( around 45 degree Celsius ) , but it had brought some delight :
The Mangoes 
!!
We had purchased a Carton of it, which contains 20 mangoes :
It costed us ₹825, which roughly converts to 10 USD.
It’s time to enjoy !!
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Go mangoing, man!
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