Water cooling does make a differenceOne of my favourite experiments with low-end Hardware was using a modded Socket 771 Xeon from China in a Socket 775 motherboard (with ancient DDR2 RAM) to play games like Overwatch or Crysis.However, CPU intensive games like EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 suffered from heavy stuttering that made it impossible to play effectively.Overclocking is the answer, but there was one issue.The Xeon X5460 has an alarming TDP of 120 W and a Tcase of 63°C, so the small air cooler I was using was already having difficulty keeping up with the CPU's requirements.Thankfully, the last few years have seen a dramatic increase in options for CPU water-cooling. All-in-One solutions have become particularly popular and after getting my hands on an imported unit from Chinese brand BJK that supports the 775 socket I could not resist the opportunity to test it and see how far could the X5460 could go.Once properly installed (and I will admit, I got it o...
