Air vs. Water cooling

[Mauchu77]

I am currently on the fence about what type of cooling to use in my new system build i.e. kabylake i7-7700k oc. to 5ghz. It seems that on the market as of right now there is a lot of fair competition between some air coolers and AIO's, but I am a little scared of putting water in my system. On the flip side the air coolers can have some compatibility issues with ram height and clearances. So my question would be what is the groups opinion on what cooler to go with?

[Damascus]

In your case I'd get water, something with 2*140mm fans (280mm AIO) as a massive air cooler like the kind that push that high put a lot of weight on the motherboard (not sure how much but I think notua's beefier ones are upwards of a kilo)

 

KRAKEN X62 is very popular and pretty but shop around for one you like

[ARikozuM]

I hear Corsair covers your system if the AIO leaks if that helps abate your fears.

[Mauchu77]

Are Aio's safe from leaks?

 

 

[Mauchu77]

Well if that true than AIO is the way to go

[Damascus]

1 minute ago, Mauchu77 said:

Are Aio's safe from leaks?

 

 

Never had an issue and many brands offer a great deal of support

[EnergyEclipse]

18 hours ago, Mauchu77 said:

Are Aio's safe from leaks?

 

 

Personally, in agreement with Damascus, they're entirely safe. Mounted correctly without any potentially future damage to tubing from say a lot of movement, those will blow most 'Air' Cooling counterparts out of the water. I've never once seen above 40^o on my i7 4790 on a DeepCool Captain 120EX, and that's running on Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon wildlands, a heavily CPU/GPU intensive game. Completely silent to the point of me questing whether it is on or not

 

Kind regards,

-EnergyEclipse