Water Colling Questons

[DeathStalkerPC]

Hi, I am building my first PC and I have some questions about Water Cooling.

 

1.Will Water Cooling loop increase performance ?

 

2.How much good Water Cooling loop costs ?

 

3.Is it worth it ?

 

4.Do you think first time builder should try Water Cooling ?

 

Thank you, for all answer.

[Amazingasian]

1) For overclicking, yes.

 

2) $300+

 

3) Depends

 

4) No.

[byalexandr]

First time builders shouldn't really do a custom loop unless you really know what you're doing. It is kinda worth it, but not as much for cooling performance as it is for aesthetics. A decent loop will run you around $600 or so (CPU and single GPU), just depends on what you're cooling.

[byalexandr]

1) For overclicking, yes.

 

2) $200+

 

3) Depends

 

4) No.

Lol 'overclicking'.

 

*insert mouse clicking gif*

[Amazingasian]

Lol 'overclicking'.

 

*insert mouse clicking gif*

You gotta drink lots of water to cool your body when you're overclicking

[Mao_Zedong]

1) Yes, but not by very much. It is more cost effective to buy higher end other components if they are available.

 

2) You should basically never go under $200 for a CPU only system. For $300 you can get a decent CPU only system. For around $600, you can get a good CPU + GPU system.

 

3) Not really, the biggest advantage is aesthetics.

 

4) No, I would try it later. You could use a CLC/AIO though.

[ryanmmax]

if by water cooling your including AIO, then you can water cool a CPU for ~100$

 

will it increase performance... short answer, NO.

 

Long answer, watercooling allows for a more efficient heat transfer from the CPU to the fins of the Radiator or heatsink.  This results in about a 5deg performance gain in an ideal setting... so if your WAY overclocking such that your unstable via temp with a large air cooler, then maybe you should look at water cooling... 

 

 

Otherwise get this  It will perform within 2-5 degrees of a h100 for 98% of use cases

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608018

[BrightCandle]

If you are going to be thermally throttled then watercooling a CPU can improve the overclock. That is basically never going to happen on a Skylake processor but it can be the case on a Haswell-E. Its not even worth considering a custom water loop until your CPU is drawing more than about 150W. What watercooling gives you is the ability to move the heat away from the CPU and then spread it over a much larger surface area, which can be both quieter and capable of handling much larger wattage. For example my 3930k at 4.5Ghz can pull 240Watts sustained. An air cooler would not be able to do that and keep the CPU to 57C, infact I have a fairly big air cooler on it right now and I can't get past 3.8Ghz, because its thermally limited.

 

The other possible reason for custom water loops is noise. Given sufficient radiators and slow speed (think 800rpm) fans you can get the noise of a computer down to almost nothing. Thus you can have  dual GPU + overclocked CPU with almost no noise. Modern graphics cards are better than for this than they used to be but they aren't exactly silent and a water loop really can reduce the volume of a computer quite a bit. The trade off of course is space and money.