Water cooling

[leonardmartin29]

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Country: canada

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Are Corsair water cooling parts quality or is ek better quality or some other brand

[person123456789]

18 minutes ago, leonardmartin29 said:

Budget (including currency): unknown

Country: canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

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): 

Are Corsair water cooling parts quality or is ek better quality or some other brand

EK has very bad QC

corsair is fine but there might be better options

[leonardmartin29]

18 minutes ago, person123456789 said:

EK has very bad QC

corsair is fine but there might be better options

what do you suggest

[An0maly_76]

Aside from the aesthetic and noise differences, is there any particular reason you want liquid cooling? It's not required on any consumer-market setup and sometimes is more trouble than it's worth.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

For the normies way of custom loops china has the best value, look at high quality china alternative brands like barrow or bykski, perform within margin of big brands like ek while being half or 1/3 the price, no they are not unreliable or any bullshit concerns like that, theyre established watercooling companies too, just happen to undercut the bigger companies (sometimes by alot)

 

Basically with ek you pay a ton but only get pathetic garbage like a slim 20mm 480 rad, but byski offers a 60mm 480 rad at the same price (~90$ on aliexpress btw) and thats a copper rad not the cheap unbranded aluminium rads, thats the kind of comparison im making here

 

Though aside from china stuff ive heard alphacool is also a decent option for cutting costs aswell

 

9 minutes ago, An0maly_76 said:

Aside from the aesthetic and noise differences, is there any particular reason you want liquid cooling? It's not required on any consumer-market setup and sometimes is more trouble than it's worth.

^^^

Cpu and gpu core oc (aside from lower end ones) is completely dead so if you are watercooling for that then dont, ram watercooling is also useless btw (fans do a much better job than just an ambient waterloop) so unless you are doing a chiller loop for subzero rams dont bother

 

Noise wise yes youll have a quieter pc but if you have a beefy cpu and gpu aircooler already just undervolt them and theyll prob run just as quiet

 

Leaving aesthetics to be the only reason, though aesthetics are useless so thats invalid =p

[leonardmartin29]

22 minutes ago, An0maly_76 said:

Aside from the aesthetic and noise differences, is there any particular reason you want liquid cooling? It's not required on any consumer-market setup and sometimes is more trouble than it's worth.

im doing it because i want to simple as that. have never had a watercooled pc and i like the look of it. looks cool

[An0maly_76]

5 minutes ago, leonardmartin29 said:

im doing it because i want to simple as that. have never had a watercooled pc and i like the look of it. looks cool

All good. There just seems to be a consensus amongst some that certain processors or certain builds require it, and it simply isn't true.

[brob]

4 minutes ago, leonardmartin29 said:

im doing it because i want to simple as that. have never had a watercooled pc and i like the look of it. looks cool

 

As good a reason as any since it's your $.

 

You might want to pose the question in https://linustechtips.com/forum/36-custom-loop-and-exotic-cooling/.

[leonardmartin29]

1 minute ago, An0maly_76 said:

All good. There just seems to be a consensus amongst some that certain processors or certain builds require it, and it simply isn't true.

no i havnt decided on cpu yet or gpu. im just getting some other parts decided like case and psu( i know you dont normally choose psu first) 

im getting a corsair 5000t, 7 noctua 120mm chromax black fans, corsair hx1000i,