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hi guys, good night to you, lately I'm studying a one portion about different types of cooling we can use in our hardware, to provide better cooling in which the preference of you? in air coolers and cooler master v8gts - be quiet deep rock - thermaltake ock snow edition - sealed water cooler as kraken x60 - corsair h110i and the only benefit of having a custom bathroom with several radiators would be just to earn more clock with lower temperature? appreciate the attention !!!
 
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It is all about how much work you want to put in, and how much time and money you have to spend. I personally have a H60. Its plug and play and I can overclock well with it.
 
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First of all, you're true, you can get lower temperatures on idle and load, but as andrew mentions, it all depends on the budget you have, some air solutions have been tested and really competing with some sealed watercool solutions, so for me, it's all about fun and specially the custom loops i'm able to think and make. Speaking from a technical point of view, for me watercooling is important as it holds the max temperatures better than air (specially if you live in a warm place) ... I mean, after long 8 hours stress, max temps and the way they got hotter it's meant to be more gradual/progressive than with air, and probably 5 to 10ºC lower ... but again, depends totally on the budget and the items you want to cool.

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AIO cooling vs Air is a long debated question. The bottom line. AIO is smaller and vents out of the case. Otherwise they cool the same for about the same $
 
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Most agree top air is better than CLC.
Generally top air is cheaper, makes less noise, cools just as well .. even better at same noise levels, is more dependable (no pump to fail) and if a fan fails system still works and is cheaply replaced. If the pump fails CPU has no cooling until CLC is replaced .. which is not cheap.

The Swiftech H220-X & H240-X are quite good and much better built than CLCs, but again they are more money than top air and only slightly better.

Custom loops are definitely better, but they cost many times what air cooling does. Many custom loops cost thousands of dollars to build.
 
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That is a LOT of work. Amazing none the least!

What's amazing is the temps,ability to cool anything, and ease of changing out platforms.

I can change platforms in about 5-10 minutes.

Res water never gets hot and always stays at/below ambient.
 
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Most agree top air is better than CLC.
Generally top air is cheaper, makes less noise, cools just as well .. even better at same noise levels, is more dependable (no pump to fail) and if a fan fails system still works and is cheaply replaced. If the pump fails CPU has no cooling until CLC is replaced .. which is not cheap.

The Swiftech H220-X & H240-X are quite good and much better built than CLCs, but again they are more money than top air and only slightly better.

Custom loops are definitely better, but they cost many times what air cooling does. Many custom loops cost thousands of dollars to build.

I use a 480 monsta radiator 8cm pushpull 8 fans and two d5 pumps and a big stainless steel tank. That's 13 cm with fans thick

It's 8 liters of coolant

I have 2 780s oced 1350mhz so that's 700 watt and then I got 4930k at 4.5ghz and rest of system around 300 watt. So I cool that with my radiator. I run it for 5 hours straight at times in games and it's under 32 degrees Celsius on the liquid.

And it's super silent. so silent I can hear the liquid in the system and how can air cooling compete? My room has no airflow only from the push pull radiator that's 13cm

Air cooling has no chance in this Setup being this silent and cold And efficient

Ambient varies from 14 to 22 Celsius
 
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As I always said, the reason why many people choose Air cooler over Water cooler is just the price, personally speaking Water Cooler is better than Air Cooler.
 
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thank you all for the answers !!!
 
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As I always said, the reason why many people choose Air cooler over Water cooler is just the price, personally speaking Water Cooler is better than Air Cooler.

I choose air coolers because they are more reliable. Price has nothing to do with it. Worst thing that can go wrong with a air cooler is a fan goes bad (which is why I always run two fans). Heatsink still works with just one fan. With a AIO water cooler, you have to worry about a fan going bad, the pump going bad (like what happened with my H60 being about a year old), or the system springing a leak. Yeah, I'll stay with air cooled heatsink, for that reason. Price has nothing to do with it
 
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