Discussion: Cons of AIO Liquid Cooling a PC

[benchmarker]

I am Building a Thread Ripper 1950X PC

i am Really not interested in watercooling since anytime it may lead in flood to pc 

causing a permanent Damage to hardwares at any time

Is there any room/Chance for Water Leaking 

all i concern is Water Leaking rather than liquid evaporating or pump failure 

 

I just wanted to know

what are the situation/experience you had when you had an AIO Liquid Unit

 

Share Your Experience 

 

Peace 

[tJuggernaut29]

the corsair AIO coolers offer very good performance, and unless you are incredibly unlucky, they dont leak.

yes a monster air cooler may beat it, but they are big and ugly. 

 

i have a baby H60 aio cooler, and it keeps my i7 6700k cool overclocked to 4.5 GHz. that is a 120mm fan rad, and it sucks the prewarmed exhaust air from my case.

 

pics or it didnt happen: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/vpd6Mp

[benchmarker]

3 minutes ago, tJuggernaut29 said:

incredibly unlucky

none of manufacture guarantee that it won't leak 

all i concern is Water Leaking rather than liquid evaporating or pump failure

[Mick Naughty]

Well running an aio is the same as running an air cooler. Ran an h60 for over a year then a h100i for a few years. No reason there would ever be an issue. Would do it again if I had to. Same as custom cooling if done right. Nothing could go wrong unless you got a bad component which happened with every product at some point. 

 

Most issues are user error, just not all are posted because of that.

[tJuggernaut29]

2 minutes ago, benchmarker said:

none of manufacture guarantee that it won't leak 

all i concern is Water Leaking rather than liquid evaporating or pump failure

then just buy a reputable cooler.

like the H100i v2, if it leaked then people would stop buying it. there is a reason people trust the cooler, it is built to last.

[benchmarker]

1 minute ago, tJuggernaut29 said:

H100i v2

For ThreadRipper 

CM MASTERLIQUID 240 or H100i v2 or H115i

[For Science!]

13 hours ago, benchmarker said:

For ThreadRipper 

CM MASTERLIQUID 240 or H100i v2 or H115i

Bigger the better, I used a H100i v2 for a while which was fine. Just be generous with the thermal paste.

[PrimeSonic]

I suppose the better questions is: What are the cons of AIO liquid cooler compared to what?

 

For all practical purposes, I don't really see any cons beyond price and the infinitesimal chance that there could be a pump failure.

That, and the fact that you'll need to make sure enough have enough fan headers to plug everything in.

 

Compared to custom liquid-cooling, the real cons are that you have no control over tube length so things might not be as clean as you could have had them with a custom loop.

When I ran AiOs in my rig, one of the tubs would always be pressed up against the case window because that's just how it was.

 

The performance will be in line with top of the line air coolers and AiOs will typically be easier to fit in a case.

Though if you want or need more raw performance than a good air cooler can give you, you'll want to give serious consideration to a custom loop.