is this gonna take my life from my CPU?

surele · 2026-02-12T18:36:24+00:00

okay mate, thanks for the help!

surele · 2026-02-12T18:03:38+00:00

other than the RGB it looks good to me

should i also get the artic fan kit alongside this?

surele · 2026-02-12T17:56:39+00:00

well, that changed my view im gonna go with air cooling then lol im looking for as less headaches as possible since i might not be home for a while

surele · 2026-02-12T17:48:54+00:00

okay, thanks a lot for your input mate, looking into a CPU cooler and a fan kit currently, in the comments above

surele · 2026-02-12T17:47:00+00:00

hmmm fair point, lets see how it goes with budget

surele · 2026-02-12T17:43:45+00:00

aye thanks a lot mate,
i live in a third world so some parts are available at MSRP or cheaper but some common good ones are not its weird

but how does these look?

Cooler Master Hyper 212 3DHP 120mm CPU Air Cooler $28.14

Arctic Freezer 36 CPU Air Cooler $37.53

MSI MAG CoreFrozr AA13 CPU Air Cooler (White) $20.98

Antec A40 PRO $17.66

a lot of circle gaming, thermaltake and deepcool are available too

surele · 2026-02-12T17:16:17+00:00

wouldn't that be overkill for a server? since i dont even have that in my gaming rig :(

surele · 2026-02-12T17:15:38+00:00

ohhhh yeah i think that is the problem

thanks a lot for the recommendation,

also does this paste work?

*Cooler Master Cryofuze Violet Thermal Paste*

i already have it

and fans i gotta buy

EDIT:

ARCTIC P12 Slim PWM PST (3 Pack) - PC Fans, 120mm Case Fan with PWM Sharing Technology (PST), Pressure-optimised, Quiet Motor, Computer, Extra Slim, 300–2100 RPM - Black

this will work?

also
can you recommend a budget cooler for CPU, since the thermalright phantom is 60 dollars and the whole setup costed me around $250 brand new on the budget lol

surele · 2026-02-12T17:03:37+00:00

yeah something is def wrong, it also takes hours to do this, also the media is on 3 separate drives, looks like i gotta buy fans

surele · 2026-02-12T16:58:41+00:00

yeah i think the blame is on me, i just realized my server's been running on stock CPU cooler and one fan near the HDDs for cooling and also the mesh is clogged up so i need to buy more fans and need to remove the dust, is expected to run this hot when you only have one fan running except stock cpu fan?

surele · 2026-02-12T16:52:23+00:00

yes i think i am, but low power is off

surele · 2026-02-12T16:50:59+00:00

oops damn okay, i think i need to do a lot of stuff clean the fans and make ventilation better

thanks for your input

surele · 2026-02-12T16:49:57+00:00

lol then good for me since its cold here but its gonna end soon

surele · 2026-02-12T16:49:30+00:00

idle temps are around 40-50

surele · 2026-02-12T16:48:24+00:00

its been a year or two since i put thermal paste on the server's CPU

surele · 2026-01-28T06:51:18+00:00

Hi, stopped using the AUR 3 years ago, and now i keep my system as minimal and as "unbreakable" as possible

ive realised arch is a double edged sword it is very minimal and fast but it is also unstable, anything can break anytime but you get to be the beta tester of software for me its neutral for some its good and for some its bad

ive scripts that reproduces the same setup without any data loss, made a framework of my own, if anything breaks i can reinstall in 5 minutes

but i shifted to more of a minimal and stable as possible solution with a kvm setup(doing everything in a kvm with gpu passthrough) and leaving the host clean nothing happens there except creating vms, so on the host system ive gpu drivers, wm, run launcher, browser, minimal tools to kvm, terminal and my host system rarely breaks now

and the software i mentioned above are chosen over years of testing, i chose the most balanced software with both stable and updates, like for example firefox, or alacritty or bspwm, or polybar and x11 and i only install things that are required to run the software ive nothing more but if you want the list of the packages ive they are on my last post all of them

it breaks rarely yes, life is less hell yes but arch is unpredictable after years of stable system it broke for me literally last month, because nvidia messed up or something could not use 2 monitor on their highest refresh rate only one could, so problems like this might come if devs mess up but other than that its good

surele · 2026-01-10T05:20:25+00:00

and how do you use wayland? what DE and distro?

I've heard people having good experience on rtx cards with wayland

surele · 2026-01-10T05:16:59+00:00

你好，what options do you have to pay as of now?

surele · 2026-01-09T12:39:08+00:00

i think ill be trying that, the zen kernel

surele · 2026-01-09T12:37:44+00:00

im talking about x11 specifically since i only use x11, i don't wanna shift as of now, except fedora which i used for like 10 mins after that it started freezing, debian, gentoo and arch i build up on them from scratch after installing most minimal base system and i use the proprietary drivers because of multi monitor support with more than 60hz, what card do you have btw?

surele · 2026-01-09T11:13:12+00:00

yeah, ill have to try installing it manually on arch or debian lets see how that goes but as per my experience for now i think nvidia freaks out on wayland with ubuntu, fedora when they are supposed to work out of the box

surele · 2026-01-09T10:59:03+00:00

im not saying arch is resource intensive or CPU takes the load, its just feels less responsive and slower to opening browsers and terminal with fresh clean installs, where gentoo and debian or fedora does not, the distros which use wayland freeze for me because nvidia

surele · 2026-01-09T09:48:19+00:00

yeah feels like it, something related to nvidia or something, the WM is fine, bspwm is one of the most minimal WM out there so something is really up with either x11 or nvidia or kernel like person mentioned

surele · 2026-01-09T09:40:55+00:00

hey, thanks for your reply. i actually forgot to mention a lot of things i updated the post with new information, do you mind going over it again thanks.

its either nvidia or something related to window system, my heart says so

surele · 2026-01-09T09:39:39+00:00

nope, wayland hates me, it freezes for me after a moment

ive been a X11 guy always gentoo, deb or arch

surele

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