Summer builds and summer temps: post your current rig and its hottest component

[Freddie]

Twin purpose thread. First, the classic, post your current build, the full part list or just the highlights, plus what you actually use it for versus what you told yourself you would use it for when you bought it

Second, since it is July and warm, add your temps. Name the hottest component in your case right now under normal load and what cooling it has. Summer is when every ambitious airflow decision gets marked, and the board learns more from one honest thermal confession than ten showcase glamour shots

New builders are especially welcome, post your planned parts list before you buy and the board will happily argue about it for free, which usually saves someone a hundred quid or a bottleneck. No budget shaming here, a well balanced cheap build gets more respect than a badly balanced expensive one

And the eternal summer question is officially open, who has actually changed their cooling because of the season, and did undervolting fix what a new cooler could not?

[Nathan75]

Undervolting evangelist reporting in, dropped 8 degrees and lost 2 percent performance I cannot perceive. It is free, do it before buying anything

[Joel96]

Honest confession as requested, my glass fronted case is beautiful and thermally it is a greenhouse. The temps do not care about my aesthetic

[EventHorizonOctopus]

Built for video editing, used for browser tabs and one game from 2015. The part list is a monument to a person I planned to become

[Inland Aidan]

That sentence belongs framed above every parts retailer checkout page

[QuietObserver]

New builder here posting a planned list tonight as invited. Budget is modest so be brutal about where the money is wasted

[Evelyn97]

Brutal preview, whatever you allocated for RGB, move it to the power supply. Nobody ever regretted a boring good PSU

[Owen73]

Hottest component is my NVMe drive of all things, sat under the GPU getting cooked. A ten pound heatsink fixed what I assumed needed a rebuild

[ProperJobs]

The drive bake is criminally underdiagnosed, half the mystery stutters posted on this board in summer are a toasty SSD throttling

[GrimAnchor]

Changed cooling for the season by which I mean I opened a window and pointed a desk fan at the case. Report, it works, the industry hates this trick

[Kayla73]

Case fans set to intake at the bottom and exhaust top rear cured mine, the number of fans mattered less than them agreeing on a direction. Airflow is a committee and mine was in disagreement for two years