Had the side open and front fans full blast just for the test, only started throttling at the end and never during gaming or normal use, I’m pleasantly surprised by the performance I’m getting seeing as no one recommends air coolers for the 14900k, I’m using the phantom spirit 120 se dual tower with 3 fans and a thermalright contact frame gaming at 4K fsr4 balanced very high settings max ray tracing cpu stays under 75-76C and I use my computer most of the day