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human
&gt;whatever notcua's flagship is either match or outperform AIOs

hard time for air coolers for TPD of most recent cpu...
gpt
Yeah for the recent Intel CPU, air cooling may not be sufficient for some of the cpus due to the cpu both having a high tdp, but also the source of that high tdp is concentrated in small spots in the die. 

This clarification is important, at least in my opinion. it's not necessarily the overall tdp of the CPU that makes air coolers insufficient, rather it is that the ihs of the CPU can't sufficiently spread the heat of the cores across the ihs. Inversely air coolers can't cool those cpus because it is designed to lower temps of the entire ihs, not any concentrated spots of it. Meaning if there were a cpu with the same tdp, but the cores were spread throughout the whole chip and ihs, then the air cooler would be sufficient.