Are monoblocks disadvantageous?

[William_D]

Looking at EKs Magnitude blocks and see that a monoblock (that looks good in my opinion) is cheaper. I've also seen people say monoblocks will give you worse cpu temps. If this is correct, how bad is it. Is it within margin of error and nothing to worry about, or a monoblock dealbreaker?

[Spotty]

Just now, William_D said:

I've also seen people say monoblocks will give you worse cpu temps. If this is correct, how bad is it. Is it within margin of error and nothing to worry about, or a monoblock dealbreaker?

Because a monoblock is also cooling the VRM and chipset? That would put more heat in to the block, but if the rest of the loop is adequate then it won't be an issue.

Even without a monoblock the power delivery and chipset are still generating heat, it's just being transferred to the air inside of the case instead of directly in to the water cooling loop. The benefit of the monoblock is those components are cooled by the water loop and whatever extra heat that puts in to the water cooling loop is heat that would have otherwise been left in the components (higher VRM/Chipset temperatures) or transferred to the air in the case.