is water cooling safe?

[archthearchvile]

I know water cooling gets better thermals but how safe is it?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

5 minutes ago, archthearchvile said:

I know water cooling gets better thermals but how safe is it?

It all depends on how well of an install you do. If you don't tighten things down or you do a shoddy job with the tubing, you'll run the risk of leaks or complete failure of the loop, The same goes with air cooling. If you have a massive air cooler and don't mount it correctly, you run the risk of it just tearing itself off the socket from its own weight. 

[kevp453]

It isn't for the faint of heart. I recommend you watch some videos on Youtube and get acquainted with it. Check out Jayztwocents, he does some pretty good beginners guides.

 

Is it safe? Yes. Is driving a car safe? Yes, if you do it right.

 

You might ask yourself why you want to watercool, too. Do you want to get into overclocking? Are you just wanting to run stock speeds and go for a silent build? If you're not going to do anything extreme with the computer, why make an extreme cooling solution?

[1234vietnam]

if you do it right, it's fine.

[Skiiwee29]

8 minutes ago, archthearchvile said:

I know water cooling gets better thermals but how safe is it?

This is a mis-conception honestly.. with high end air cooling you get just good as most water cooling. Water cooling is more a form over function thing. yes you do get a few degrees better, but really its not the "golden savior" people seem to think it is in terms of temps. The place it really shines for temps is on the GPU, not CPU. I just expanded my personal loop to include my GPU and temps dropped from 68c under load in game to 45-48c under load. 

[JR88]

It's all pretty tough and Leak Proof, all the seals/Gaskets is usually some pretty good stuff. You can orient it in about any way and it would all still be fine. The loop requires periodic Maintenance though. After some time change the coolant. And after a really long time would even start looking at some of the seals for the fittings and diy some gaskets for blocks out of silicone and change them out etc. Being preventive, don't know about you but pretty paranoid about that, and will do that after log some real hours. like I really want my block to develop a leak and kill the cpu or board stuff.

[Mick Naughty]

Air cooling isn’t and will never be as good as water. So if you want the pros and cons, go for it. Only reason it would be safe is if there’s a bad part or bad install. Which could happen with any product.