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Billet Labs' fanless PC struggles with CPU temps despite passive cooling

A London-based PC cooling firm, Billet Labs, has developed a custom-built, entirely passive water-cooled gaming PC. This innovative build utilizes a convection chimney effect powered by triple-stacked radiators to dissipate heat without any fans. While the system successfully prevented the RTX 5080 GPU from thermal throttling, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU experienced some throttling, reaching temperatures of 95°C or higher under heavy load. AI

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Billet Labs' fanless PC struggles with CPU temps despite passive cooling

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 · Mark Tyson ·

    Custom-built passive water-cooled PC relies on convection chimney effect powered by triple-stacked radiators — 9800X3D build with RTX 5080 has no fans, copper, and radiator chimney, but struggles to keep temperatures down

    Innovative London-based PC cooling firm Billet Labs builds and showcases a completely passive, fanless, gaming build.

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    Custom-built passive water-cooled PC relies on convection chimney effect powered by triple-stacked radiators — 9800X3D build with RTX 5080 has no fans, copper,

    Custom-built passive water-cooled PC relies on convection chimney effect powered by triple-stacked radiators — 9800X3D build with RTX 5080 has no fans, copper, and radiator chimney, but struggles to keep temp… Innovative London-based PC cooling firm Billet Labs builds and showcas…