Should I buy a HTC Vive or custom loop water cooling?

[AliveCupajoe]

I'm in debate on whether to custom loop water cool my pc or buy an htc vive.  Both are around the same price.  Any advice?

[MoonlightSylv]

HTC Vive, custom loops are really only for looks and as long as your GPU isn't overheating and you don't need that small overclocking gain, get the Vive.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Vive if you want to enjoy the half-baked VR experience now. Custom Loop if you want a fun project and a pc that both is dead silent (assuming you make it so), and drop dead beautiful.

[TheProfessionalAmateurs]

Definitely the htc vive because, air cooling is often better for silent operation and you have a lot more maintenance costs and labor with watercooling.

[christianled59]

Vive. I love mine. 

[WereCat]

Neither. But if you really want to spend your money then go for Vive. I tried it and it was great, just have in mind that there are barely any good games for it and most of them are just tech demo.

 

Best VR game/simulation atm is probably Universe Sandbox 2 (square root 2... don't know how to type it on phone).

[12g28m]

Get The Vive if your system isn't overheating

[Guest]

20 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

HTC Vive, custom loops are really only for looks and as long as your GPU isn't overheating and you don't need that small overclocking gain, get the Vive.

Are you high, drunk or under any medications that may effect your way of thinking?

Custom loops are NOT at ALL for looks. @Lays can tell you that with his monstrous total of 1080mm of radiator space

[MoonlightSylv]

4 minutes ago, Ronnie76 said:

Are you high, drunk or under any medications that may effect your way of thinking?

Custom loops are NOT at ALL for looks. @Lays can tell you that with his monstrous total of 1080mm of radiator space

Most custom loops are more for looks, a 1080mm rad sounds crazy and cool but unless you're doing extreme really crazy overclocking, you don't really need them.

Edited July 14, 2016 by ShadowTechXTS

[EslyteMedia]

35 minutes ago, AliveCupajoe said:

I'm in debate on whether to custom loop water cool my pc or buy an htc vive.  Both are around the same price.  Any advice?

Personally, I can recommend the HTC Vive. It offers a true virtual reality experience that nothing else on the market can compete with for this price point.

 

Thank you for your consideration and have a good day.

[Scruffy90]

Id hold off on the Vive. It's awesome, but there is still a small number of games available for it and you need to see if you have the space for it, since not all games are sit/stand.

[MilkJugg24]

Vive lol. 

 

And another stick of RAM while you're at it.

[BrightCandle]

I wouldn't buy a $800 watercooling loop. You can do it for 1/4 of that price and get a loop that can cool your CPU and GPU and get a quiet machine. But honestly the days of watercooling getting more performance passed, the last time that really worked was with the 3930k and it was fair more effective on the original i7's. I am sure it will return someday but currently its not really worth much other than being quieter given sufficient radiator space.

 

So get the Vive.