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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

340: Like a Bong for Your CPU

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

Tech, Smartphone, Phone, Videogame, Microsoft, Games, Apple, Space, Science, Techpod, Society & Culture, Tesla, Technology, Android, Electric Car, Amazon, Smart Phone, Tech Pod, Google, Video Game, Ios

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Brad's tired of throttling his CPU due to an inadequate heatsink. Will's been spending a lot more time testing PC hardware of late. Between those two things, we thought it was a good time to do a check-in on CPU cooling, and primarily liquid cooling, so we can establish the facts on the ground about modern AIOs and custom loops with an eye toward helping Brad decide what to get. Turns out, there's more to know than ever, and yet it's also never been simpler. We also talk a little about modern air cooling, CPU spikes in Windows, and other stuff!

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0:00.0

Okay, Brad, I'm about to do some unnecessary work that is of extremely limited benefit and is probably going to be something that annoys me to the point after I do it that I undo it.

0:11.7

It's the best kind of work. Some might say the only kind of work.

0:14.6

I mean, maybe this is all work.

0:17.0

But so for the last like, I don't know, five years, I've had two monitors, high, low, one, one high, one low. Wait, only two? Only two. I have a third one for the stream PC off to the side. Okay. Yeah. So I've had them on one pole, on one like desk mounted arm. And then I have a split arm dealy.

0:38.4

I don't know what you call it.

0:39.2

It's like a, it's like a, it's like a turn one, one, uh, pneumatic arm into two monitor

0:46.0

pneumatic arm deal.

0:47.7

Like it's official.

0:48.8

It's part of the, it's an ergodox or ergotron or I guess ergotron thing.

0:53.7

And I've had that on uh with both monitors on it

0:59.3

for years and years and years the problem is the monitors are kind of heavy and when I bump the

1:05.8

table it looks like I'm having like a like a 8.0 earthquake in here.

1:11.3

Okay.

1:11.7

Yes. You know what I can attest from.

1:13.4

Yeah.

1:14.5

The experience sitting on the other end of your webcam.

1:17.0

Angry typing will do it.

1:18.9

Uh, like a gentle nudge, a bump.

1:21.4

And I think it's because the monitor, the camera's attached to the top to the bottom monitor.

1:26.6

It's like sits between the two monitors.

1:28.8

And I think it's just too much weight for the pneumatics on the arm to kind of absorb.

1:34.0

And I think if I moved one monitor to to one pole and another, the second monitor to a second pole, it would be a lower impact on all the poles.

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