Without the waterblock, the Intel Core i9 14900K's P-Core temperature reached 100 °C and throttled speeds to 5.7 GHz vs the full 5.8–6.2 GHz at 74 °C that was achieved with the waterblock on ...

We can look at its internal block diagram and get how it works ... We all know that this only describes one type of CPU though, and thus it’s always interesting to see alternatives.