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Air cooling is just better (usenet.lol)
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Air is better than water

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[–] Sheeple 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay but what is there to know that isn't there to know via basic physics and chemistry?

Any cooling works by allowing heat to gather in a source like say a heat sink combined with a way to conduct the heat to somewhere. Either into the surrounding air or liquids.

Then you need something to move the hot conducting matter away to replace it with cold conducting matter. A fan happens to be convenient for moving the hot air that gathered around and inside the heat sink.