Upgrading to Water Cooling

Trevor S · June 30, 2021

Budget (including currency): 2000-3000 dollars CAD

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Call of Duty, Battlefield, Sons of the Forest, Dying Light 2 and more

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Currently Have Amd 3950x ASus Tuf Gaming 6900XT, 64 gb of Gskill Royal Trident Z, Gigabyte X570 aorus master. Planning to Upgrade to the Asus Rog X570Crosshair VIII Hero mother board and to the Lian Li PC-011 Case.

Need help on the best Water Block for the Cpu thatll work with the motherboard and water block for gpu. Along with what other supplies i should get Tubing, Fittings, Resevoir/Distribution Plate and pump. Along with opinion on parts and the newmotherboard i plan on upgrading to.

Somerandomtechyboi · June 30, 2021

Custom water for the price you pay and the benifits it gives isnt really worth it unless you just want the asthetics of water cooling.

Best go for an aio like arctic liquid freezer 360 or 420 (if your case can even fit one)

I wouldnt bother with watercooling in general unless if its saving space near the cpu socket or asthetics

Just get a dark rock pro 4 or nh d15, amazing air coolers that will perform on par with most 360 aios

Ill only bother with "water"cooling personally if its for putting ice in a water loop or anything like that which actually allows better ocing that i would get from an air cooler, or not ill just skip that entirely and go phase change cooling and make my pentium e5400 run at 6.969ghz cause nice

Bombastinator · July 1, 2021

37 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Custom water for the price you pay and the benifits it gives isnt really worth it unless you just want the asthetics of water cooling.

Best go for an aio like arctic liquid freezer 360 or 420 (if your case can even fit one)

I wouldnt bother with watercooling in general unless if its saving space near the cpu socket or asthetics

Just get a dark rock pro 4 or nh d15, amazing air coolers that will perform on par with most 360 aios

Ill only bother with "water"cooling personally if its for putting ice in a water loop or anything like that which actually allows better ocing that i would get from an air cooler, or not ill just skip that entirely and go phase change cooling and make my pentium e5400 run at 6.969ghz cause nice

Situationally dependent. Custom loop can produce a harder core cooling envelope than almost anything else while also providing extraordinarily quiet operation. If you want to do an HTPC that is also a top end gaming PC it’s more or less the only way to go. There are drawbacks though that can be dealbreakers for some and unimportant to others. In particular custom loop requires maintenance. For one, You’re working with fresh (as in not salt) water, and keeping it from going flat out green with algae more or less spontaneously requires a certain amount of planning and effort. There are other things as well. More or less you need to be a detail oriented person who doesn’t have a problem with maintenance and periodic checks. It’s not as much maintenance as for example having a pet, but there are similarities. For me it’s a dealbreaker. I’m forgetful and I’ve got enough problems without adding more. Also I don’t need an HTPC that is also a top end gaming machine.

There are people who only read the watercooling section that know a lot about this kind of thing specifically. @For Science! is one such. He might be a good person to put this question to.