Published Apr 29, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.  Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. Stock coolers have earned themselves a bad rap among PC building enthusiasts, and it wasn't without reason. Both AMD and Intel's stock cooler designs were simply not enough for what the processors were demanding , and that was the cause of the aftermarket CPU cooler's rise to prominence.…