An enthusiast used copper plates weighing 1kg each to create passive cooling in his system based on the Streacom DB4 chassis. The user’s system unit is built on the MSI MPG B650I Edge WiFi motherboard and includes a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor with 64GB DDR5 RAM.
The Streacom DB4 comes with a passive heatsink that supports processors with TDP of up to 65W and an optional module that increases cooling power to 105W. However, this is still not enough to cool the Ryzen 9 7950X with 170W TDP.
In this context, the user used copper plates to cool the processor and motherboard chipset, costing about $100 each.
After two hours of intense processor work, the temperature reached 95 degrees Celsius in one of the chips and 90 degrees in the second. The temperature of the motherboard was about 77 degrees, and the temperature of the side panels of the case fluctuated between 50 and 60 degrees.
Source: Ferra
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