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    12 hours ago

    Linus’ biggest concern is noise, so whatever setup he has likely doesn’t have fans blaring to increase performance.

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      11 hours ago

      That’s actually pretty much the opposite of how that works. More fans generally mean lower noise as they don’t need to run as hard to deliver the same volume of air. Same with larger fans. There is eventually a point where adding more fans hurts rather than helps, but it’s probably more fans than you would think. All of this is especially true for watercooling and radiator fans, the more radiator area and associated fans you have the better. My desktop with 3 radiators and 8 radiator fans is quieter than my server with one radiator, 3 radiator fans and 2 case fans, and that’s despite the desktop having a higher total heat load.

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        blaring adjective

        1. (of a sound, especially a recorded sound) loud and harsh

        Example: a blaring alarm and flashing red light were going off

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            9 hours ago

            I can’t even see what mistake I made. I didn’t even use that word. I think they are just salty over getting corrected.

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          Why are you giving me a definition? I just told you that having more fans dosen’t actually mean it’s going to be loud or harsh. What mistake have I made?

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            I’ve made no comment on quantity of fans, only loudness.

            You mistook that to mean “fewer” fans.

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              Your phrasing implied that the other system would have blaringly loud fans, which it probably does not, at least if they built and configured it properly. Since people thinking more fans equals louder is an easy misconception to have I jumped to the conclusion that you had made that error. Maybe you didn’t mean to imply that the other system would be loud.

              Giving me the definition of blaring wasn’t actually helpful in any way. I knew what the word meant, so that wasn’t the actual issue. You failed to accurately understand or communicate the problem when trying to correct someone, and sounded like a pretentious knob doing it.

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      Linus also used a 280W CPU, so he almost definitely has fans somewhere in his build.