Water CoolingVS Air Cooling

[Ambo]

Which do you guys prefer/have in your systems? i prefer water cooling

 

[Arty]

i prefer water

but i have air

$$$

[Oshino Shinobu]

I prefer and have watercooling. The process of building a loop, the performance and how it can look are all better than air. 

[SeanBond]

Which do you guys prefer/have in your systems? i prefer water cooling

Water cooling at the high end is the only water cooling that is worth it. If you buy an AIO under like an h90 you are wasting some money for sure. However you can make the argument of looks. Custom water cooling is so insanely overpriced I will probably never do it. At the low end always go air if you don't mind looks. An evo212 has been cooling than a h50 that cost twice as much...

[Aytex]

water if your loaded with $$$$$$$$$ air if ur poor and u buy a 212  evo like me

[Thorium19]

I use air personally, as my case is set up for it, but I would like to try watercooling when the coolermaster master case pro 5 comes out.

[Sakkura]

Air cooling. Water cooling is more scalable, but in most situations air cooling is quieter and cheaper than comparable water cooling solutions.

[Whorax]

I have an AIO.

I got one because they look nicer and it will be easier to transport a few times a year since there isn't as much strain on the mobo from a big heatsink.

High end air coolers will almost always cool better than AIOs.

[arronleeds]

Air, my r1 ultimate beats a h100i for almost half the price, can't compete.

[JSG509]

I was thinking about going Water but currently running Air.  Maybe I will get a Water cooler for the CPU but that's about it, I don't really have any interest in a water loop. 

[SeanAngelo]

Which do you guys prefer/have in your systems? i prefer water cooling

depends on my situation.

[johnny5c]

Custom loop here.

 

15 years ago when I built my first water cooled rig the only real option was to use a modified heater core and a homemade block, knew a guy who made a small fortune machining copper blocks on a Bridgeport in his garage.

[Guest]

I would probably prefer high end air instead of water unless I was building in a case with a side panel window and in an eaisly visible location. Right now I am using a stock intel cooler but I will buy a better cooler in the near future for less decibels whenever my hard drive turns off -- that thing drives me crazy!

 

I've been thinking noctua. A 212 evo just isn't worth it for me. I'd rather spend a little more or just stick with stock. My cpu temperatures at idle/web browsing are at 40c and I don't think they rise above 70c in game.

[nims0c]

I like the simplicity of air cooling. I'm new to PC building though.

[The_Stig]

Air cooling. If something goes wrong I know how to fix it easily plus Cryorig makes some sweet looking aircoolers.

[nims0c]

Air cooling. If something goes wrong I know how to fix it easily plus Cryorig makes some sweet looking aircoolers.

Indeed. I wish they were available in Canada.

[Crowes]

You stick with air and 120mm AIOs until you want to overclocking, and when you do you move to 240mm AIOs and custom loops.

[0ld_Chicken]

I went from a 212 to a 240mm aio and back to the 212 because i felt like it wasn't worth it for me. I just recently got a 2nd hand nh-d14 and it does about as well as my 240mm aio while staying quieter, for less money. If money was no problem then a custom water loop would be fantastic but i don't think that's a viable option for most

[Skyway]

I run a Corsair H60 in my thin sff case, only because a decently tall air cooler wont fit.  If I had a choice though, I would still probably choose an AIO/water.  My H60 is completely silent, I have never heard any pump/water noise and it has cooled my overclocked 4690k perfectly.

 

If I did go air on my build though, I have been eyeing the Cryorig C1.