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  1. 1. Do you use air or water cooling for your CPU?

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Wondering what % of the LTT/ "dedicated PC community" uses water cooling over air.

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I have water, will never go water again.

The H100i V2 i have is the first and likely last watercooler i'll ever get.

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6 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

I have water, will never go water again.

The H100i V2 i have is the first and likely last watercooler i'll ever get.

Why not?

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4 minutes ago, jcw150 said:

Why not?

Aircooling is more silent and performs just as well.

And no risks of leaks. A decent noctua cooler works just as well and probably cheaper too.

 

edit: also really disappointing performance wise, holy crap it's bad for the money...

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what about passive cooling 

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4 minutes ago, Megah3rtz said:

Worst thing to happen with air cooling is a dead fan, or having to replace thermal paste. 

Actually if you have enough airflow it's not that bad.

I had a system with a mugen 2 cooler and i ignored the fanspeed because the motherboard complained it was too low.

At some point later the fan died and i only figured it out when i was working on it and noticed the fan didn't start spinning after i powered it on.

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Water; my cpu was too loud when gaming with a hard OC.

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I like my H110, but ill probably upgrade to a custom loop eventually.

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6 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

what about passive cooling 

That's air-cooling or water-cooling. Are you using rads or a heatsink?

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ooh dang. Pretty even split - it's 50/50.

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I would've been curious to see custom loops as a different option

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21 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Aircooling is more silent and performs just as well.

And no risks of leaks. A decent noctua cooler works just as well and probably cheaper too.

 

edit: also really disappointing performance wise, holy crap it's bad for the money...

don't think i've heard of aircooling being more silent..

 

more efficient transfer of heat = lower rpm fans (unless you use a massive noctua heatsink which let's face it just looks fucking garbage)

 

Bad for the money? Maybe. Depends what you go with. On deals, you can find a h100i for $90 which is pretty good. It's not cost efficient, but in 360mm AIO's and custom loops, aircooling comes nowhere near the performance.

 

 

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I've got a Corsair H60 mainly because I wanted to overclock my CPU and not worry about temps.

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4 minutes ago, Armakar said:

don't think i've heard of aircooling being more silent..

 

more efficient transfer of heat = lower rpm fans (unless you use a massive noctua heatsink which let's face it just looks fucking garbage)

 

Bad for the money? Maybe. Depends what you go with. On deals, you can find a h100i for $90 which is pretty good. It's not cost efficient, but in 360mm AIO's and custom loops, aircooling comes nowhere near the performance.

 

 

because of the pumps aio can be noisier, especially 120mm ones. even high end 240/360 are louder than high end coolers

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Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

because of the pumps aio can be noisier, especially 120mm ones. even high end 240/360 are louder than high end coolers

CAN be. Not all of them are. If your pump is noisy I guess it's faulty, all the Corsair AIO's ive owned have had 0 pump noises.

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6 minutes ago, Armakar said:

don't think i've heard of aircooling being more silent..

 

more efficient transfer of heat = lower rpm fans (unless you use a massive noctua heatsink which let's face it just looks fucking garbage)

 

Bad for the money? Maybe. Depends what you go with. On deals, you can find a h100i for $90 which is pretty good. It's not cost efficient, but in 360mm AIO's and custom loops, aircooling comes nowhere near the performance.

 

 

Aircooling is almost always more silent because you don't have a pump running at 2K+ rpm.

You also don't need a massive heatsink, something like the CM hyper 412s or whatever isn't massive but performs great.

 

My H100i was like 110 euro's and aircooler prices don't even go that high, however the highest-end aircoolers do match or even beat the stupid thing...

 

Of course 360mm aio's or custom WC can beat it but price wise it's in a completely different league. And there's still the risk of leaking.

 

I'm just not a fan of them, at all. Oh well... The thing does its job well enough and it was expensive enough so for now i'll stick with it.

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I use an AIO on my CPU and GPU. 

Mwahaha. I've had custom loops before. Just got tired of the maintenance involved in them. So I went AIO.

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6 minutes ago, Armakar said:

CAN be. Not all of them are. If your pump is noisy I guess it's faulty, all the Corsair AIO's ive owned have had 0 pump noises.

My H100i is loud compared to a noctua NH-D15, especially when idle the difference is clearly there.

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I go custom watercooling for the looks, temps and noise are nice but I still don't think it's worth the money lol

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I like everything about custom water cooling. Even the bad stuff. Even water cool my gpu backplates. Because why the hell not.

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