Air or water?

[Wolfire]

I didnt really know in what category to post it but anyway. I am going to build a new pc and i want to know, wich is better. Air or water cooled. My choices are : air cooled noctua nh d15, cooler master v8 gts and cooler master 612 v2 and for my water cooled, i want a raijintek triton ( the only one i know that can make a whole loop with cpu and gpu combo, tell me if there is other one. For water cooling, i will start with the cpu loop and after upgrade it to cpu and gpu loop.

[DarkBlade2117]

Air

[ThatOneRussian]

get the dh-15 imho

[Swndlr]

The NH-D15 is one of the best coolers on the market, Id definitely go for it

[Benji_w]

I didnt really know in what category to post it but anyway. I am going to build a new pc and i want to know, wich is better. Air or water cooled. My choices are : air cooled noctua nh d15, cooler master v8 gts and cooler master 612 v2 and for my water cooled, i want a raijintek triton ( the only one i know that can make a whole loop with cpu and gpu combo, tell me if there is other one. For water cooling, i will start with the cpu loop and after upgrade it to cpu and gpu loop.

 

Can't really suggest rijintek as I have never used them but the NH D14 is a great cooler so I imagine the 15 to be just as good or better. If you want to go watercooling then you need to go custom, sorry but once you start adding things you'll end up just buying hardline tubing, big rads and D5 pumps etc in the end so just go custom.

[Elliott Game]

what are you doing for your computer and are you going to overclock? 

[JerkyMcDilerino]

Air = Easy to install, less maintenance, and easy to clean the dust. 

 

Water = Require much research to find the right parts, more maintenance, and not easy to clean it out at all, and possible chances of getting leak. 

 

So, my vote is Air. 

[Atmos]

The Noctua NH-D15 is one of the quietest and best performing coolers on the market, period.

The best performing cooler, is the Reeven Okeanos, but its loud, like, pretty damn loud.

 

The raijintek is a great cooler, but expensive for what you pay. If you're willing to, it will perform about the same, if not a bit better if you drop some good fans on it than a noctua nh-d15. But it also comes with more points of failure, adding in a pump to the mixture.

 

I've gone water, and haven't looked back, but as a PSA about 30 minutes ago I finished cleaning my 240x60mm rad for the 4790k, because i noticed I was hitting 75c on light use. Turns out, living in a house with 4 cats and 3 dogs means no matter how hard i try, after two months its going to be more dusty than the vatican secret library.

[Wolfire]

what are you doing for your computer and are you going to overclock?

yep

[Benji_w]

yep

 

Custom loop will get you further that an air cooler when overclocking.