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Water vs Air cooling?

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Air cooling has less points of failure and is usually cheaper/quieter. Watercooling can perform better at the higher end. They both have their advantages and disadvantages.

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By water cooling i mean AIO but is it safe or is air cooling better?

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB 1866MHz

GPU: Asus Strix RTX 2060 OC

Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Hero 

Storage: 1TB, 500GB, 250GB SSD's, 1TB SSHD

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Air cooling has less points of failure and is usually cheaper/quieter. Watercooling can perform better at the higher end. They both have their advantages and disadvantages.

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Air cooling the only point of failure is the fans, AIO has many point of failure (pump, leaks, etc...).

 

Air cooling will be much quieter under stock configuration (without replacing fans) like NH-D14/15

 

Top end AIO will be better than air cooler in terms of cooling potential.

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Well im looking at some of Corsairs AIOs. Any other specific brands that are better?

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB 1866MHz

GPU: Asus Strix RTX 2060 OC

Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Hero 

Storage: 1TB, 500GB, 250GB SSD's, 1TB SSHD

Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540

 

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Well im looking at some of Corsairs AIOs. Any other specific brands that are better?

 

Swiftech H220x/H240x, Cooler Master Glacer / Nepton 280L (with aftermarket fans), Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm rad

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Thank you i will look into them! :)

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB 1866MHz

GPU: Asus Strix RTX 2060 OC

Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Hero 

Storage: 1TB, 500GB, 250GB SSD's, 1TB SSHD

Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540

 

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Going for the CM Nepton 280L! Thanks guys :)

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB 1866MHz

GPU: Asus Strix RTX 2060 OC

Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Hero 

Storage: 1TB, 500GB, 250GB SSD's, 1TB SSHD

Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540

 

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Going for the CM Nepton 280L! Thanks guys :)

@Faceman would be proud.

Current PC build: [CPU: Intel i7 8700k] [GPU: GTX 1070 Asus ROG Strix] [Ram: Corsair LPX 32GB 3000MHz] [Mobo: Asus Prime Z370-A] [SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 500GB primary + Samsung 860 Evo 1TB secondary] [PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 750w 80plus] [Monitors: Dual Dell Ultrasharp U2718Qs, 4k IPS] [Case: Fractal Design R5]

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