TG has an established rep. I'll make notes about this for stage 2 -- when I become "purchasing agent".
I didn't see your post right away on coolers and processors. The i9-14900K thermal behavior was an incentive to wait, even as I wouldn't have purchased an i9.
I need to blow the cruft out of my file-server/media PC and consider newer storage. It currently has 4x 3.5" 3TB HDDs in a pool. It needs some maintenance. Then we're going to install the IoT Enterprise security solution.
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I was poking around for specs and info on my two TR Le Grand Macho (and RT) coolers. I have an idea as to how that old cooler stacks up against (a) Noctua NH-D15 G2 and (therefore) (b) Phantom Spirit 120 and EVO. In that rank order, I believe the LGM is under-rated. When they ran the bench-tests, they would not have used the TR accessory silicon-rubber accordion duct made to fit the LGM. You'll always squeeze out some extra cooling with a nice-fitting duct like that.
But back to my hap-hazard web searches. I turned up an outfit HQ'd in Spain called "Tech-Inn". They were offering a
TR LGM RT for sale, and for the usual price of five years ago. It is important to point out at this juncture that TR seemed to have stopped producing those coolers perhaps earlier than 2022, when I bought my second unit.
There are advantages to a design that doesn't follow a double-tower approach, and that cooler was one of only a few I've ever found to have a special ducting accessory like that. I know the CoolerMaster 212 EVO has such a blue silly-cone accordion duct -- I have one of those also.
But I had posted earlier information to reveal LGA / Socket 1851 compatibility for a cooler made long before - uh - Socket 1851.
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