They are all good deals when compared to Noctua, as long as they can handle the heat load. I like Thermalright as a company but dang they have a lot of very similar designs in the same relative space...
Steam uses a ton of CPU power to download and decompress the game updates. That I checked you couldn't disable updates entirely but I set my games to update at 5am and I just leave my client closed when I am not using it then update manually.
Playing Doom Eternal Ancient Gods 1 Holt Slayer Gate (getting my ass kicked [H]ard), the area prior to the red box is me playing on a 7950x RTX4070OC, I found it interesting when I shut the game down the fans kicking up to find steam update...
Torrent is pretty capable. I have a 150mm Watercool pump/res combo that will locate the bottom end of the pump above the video card, with front 45mm thicc rad the Torrent will fit 14in+. I also have an FT02 in for sale/trade.
nvidia has a firmware fix for black screen during boot with displayport.
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5411/~/nvidia-gpu-uefi-firmware-update-tool
Of the two combos I have, I like the Heatkiller better but it isn't installed yet. The Alphacool is a tick tall for my rig, I went with the Heatkiller 150mm to make clearance for a longer video card down the road...
If anyone does decide to move on from their ProMedia 5.1, please let me know. There continues to be interest in the systems, since the consumer market the past decade has gone away from the power, clarity and compactness that Klipsch combined in...