until some idiot asks me why his brand new asus rampage burned out because he put a 1k$ processor on stock cooling in a tiny case with one (or non! passive cooling is all the rage) fan. cooling is one of the most important and most forgotten things when you build a computer, besides the power supply...surprise! power supplies have the longest section by far on my guide. people who don't think that cooling is as important as other things probably wonder why their computer's room is ten degrees hotter during the summer than the rest of the house.
it's the same as the rest - information that people should have access to. there's less than nothing about cooling available as compared to the rest of the stuff that's in this faq. i'm doing overclocking in a different writeup. i'm being quite serious when i say that there's more up-to-date info on overclocking on the web than probably any other major computer enthusiast 'thing'. it's on mobo ads, cpu ads, tech websites...and it's all better than what i'd write up, which could be distilled to 'follow someone elses instructions until you know what the hell you are doing'. there's a reason there's all these huge computer geeks on this site, and there's maybe 25 computers that access this site that are overclocked. it's not useful in the mainstream. information detailing what stuff like active pfc is in non-technical terms, types of cooling processes...those are the things that are important for a layperson to understand in real words, not technobabble. not overclocking. it's like pot - everyone talks about it, everyone wants to do it, but it's mostly bad to everyone. fun while it lasts, sucks when you burn out your central processor (lolpun brain wut) and are stuck with garbage.