Mr. Fox

Do an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 IoT LTSC and don't worry about it. Also don't worry about "updates" because you don't need them. That is a hoax. Start easing yourself into Linux. You'll be glad you did. The hardest part is learning to do without some of the Windoze-only software you enjoy using. You can dual boot to use it when you need to. Most games work fine on Linux and there are CPU and GPU overclocking utilities for Linux that work perfectly. Winduhz matters less today than it ever has before. I'm even using Micro$lop Office, PowerBI and Adobe Photoshop on Linux using Winboat. The only thing I actually need Windoze for is HWBOT benching and that has become such a joke that I don't burn many calories on that anymore. I'm not one of the chosen ones that gets free hardware and special firmware that is not available to the general public, so competing has become a waste of time.

It is really hard, at least for me, to find any contentment with air cooling or AIO after being comfortable with a custom loop for so many years. I tried because it is way cheaper and much easier on the wallet, but I find myself very unhappy with an air cooled CPU or GPU at this point and I normally find that I am ready to be done with the idea within the first day or two. Using an AIO is a slight improvement, but still not nearly as good. The ideal setup would be a clean and enclosed/ventilated area of crawl space or an unfinished room in a cool basement for the chiller with QDC fittings attached to a plate on the floor with a light switch to turn the chiller on and off. You would need an extra pump or two (or just one crazy powerful pond pump) to handle the gravitational effect of the added vertical height of the tubing runs, but it would be worth it.

It is sad to see that the wild variance in silicon quality isn't any better than it has been. The range allowed for sloppy crap from Intel, AMD and NVIDIA is really inexcusable. You no longer get what you pay for. You either get lucky or you get screwed. Nice response from Tony (Northwest Repair) to Jay's video. Jay's Video: Tony's Response:

I think people that want or need to use AI will happily go to whatever web site they use, sign in and use it. When they are done, they will sign out and go do something else. The problem for Micro$lop is they want to force the Copilot AI into all aspects of the normal daily computing experience. Only really stupid people will be OK with that.

It's about 18" front to back, 14" left to right and about 19" tall not counting fittings. I'd say add another 3.5" just for good measure to account for the fittings if you use 90° fittings (obviously twice that much without the right angle fittings). It is not particularly loud. It is essentially a mini refrigerator or HVAC. It has an evaporator, compressor, condenser and fan. It's not quiet, but not obnoxious. No louder than your Nova fans. Probably similar loudness, but lower pitch sort of like a box fan on low fan speed. You know what your fridge or freezer sound like. Expect that in terms of how it sounds. It puts out lots of heat on the exhaust, so put the back blowing out a window or out of your office door. It goes without saying you do not want the hot exhaust blowing into the radiator, as that would defeat the purpose of using chilled water. I use a 5 gallon water tank wrapped in black foil insulation to normalize the water temperatures. It takes longer for 5 gallons to get cold but once it does the PC load while doing extended benching sessions doesn't really affect the water temperature that much. For benching do not use the radiator. It will heat the cold water and try to warm it to ambient. Just bypass it when benching. For gaming you can use the radiator and the chiller together since you do not need to try to keep the temps as close to freezing point as possible. It will be a LOT cooler with chilled water even with the radiator, but the radiator will hold you back in a notable way when benching. Yes, the Radeon hotspots are utterly insane. That is ultimately why I could not find any real love for the 6900 XT or the 9070 XT. Both were otherwise good GPUs, but the unfixable hotspot temps made it hard for me to like them. Even on chilled water the 6900 XT had totally asinine hotspot temps. Nothing I tried improved the hotspot temps on either of them in a meaningful way. AMD needs to find a way to address that engineering defect. Their product adoption rate would likely improve.

I despise crApple and refuse to allow them to have any space in my life. They are no better than Micro$lop... worse I think. Maybe the problem is that fact that you are choose "Copilot certified hardware" since Copilot sucks and so does the hardware (turdbooks) certified for it. I have not tested Premier but I have Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop (and Micro$lop Office) working on Linux using Winboat. I love Linux. It is my daily driver. I generally only use Windoze when I have to. I haven't liked Windows since Windows 7 (the last good version).

Do it. @Reciever you won't regret it. Here's mine... https://www.performance-pcs.com/products/hailea-ultra-titan-hc-500a-110v-1-2hp-790watt-cooling-capacity-waterchiller Buy it once and it will be compatible with all past and future platforms. An upgrade that endures the test of time... brand and generation agnostic.

Looking good, brother.

I think most of the OEMs use Laird thermal pads.

Decided to give MX Linux a go. Really nice distro. Comes with a built-in dedicated NVIDIA driver tool and lots of other stuff. I think I mentioned this once before, but LACT is a really nice NVIDIA GPU overclock tool. (Works for AMD as well.) And cpupower-gui works nice for CPU overclocking.

I decided to give MX Linux a try. Nice distro. I like it.