I did the same when I rebuilt with a 9800x3d. It’s so nice not having to worry about the pump or aging parts that might leak. No gurgling sounds on startup.

I used the Thermalright Frost Spirit 140 as it was quite a bit cheaper than Noctua which used to be my go to.

What all this does is accelerate the day when AI becomes worthless.

It was always worthless. Or, at least, it was always worthless thinking that LLMs were a substitute for reasoning AI, which is what it appears many people have been suckered into.