Air is better than water
Unless you need extra gpu cooling. Which I don't so I'm a hurricane boy weeeeeeeeeeee
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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just admitting you dont know how cooling works. thats cool.
Okay but what is there to know that isn't there to know via basic physics and chemistry?
Any cooling works by allowing heat to gather in a source like say a heat sink combined with a way to conduct the heat to somewhere. Either into the surrounding air or liquids.
Then you need something to move the hot conducting matter away to replace it with cold conducting matter. A fan happens to be convenient for moving the hot air that gathered around and inside the heat sink.
Didn’t Linus tech tips do a video on this and find that water cooling doesn’t make much if any difference.
The entire computer is throttled into a power consumption you can sink through air coolers. So, unless you are overclocking something, it should always be enough. That will hold until companies start to design the components specifically for water cooling.
But the people claiming it can be quieter or thinner are quite right.
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The only reason I have water cooling is that I bought my pc used and it came with water cooling. I'm too lazy to change it. At least the RGB lights on the motherboard were switched off with a simple toggle in the BIOS.
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I've got an FX era noctua still going strong on a 5900x. They even shipped me the adapter kit for free.
Like i give a fuck what cools best. I want my system to look awesome and the AIO sure looks better imo. At the end of the day: build the PC that makes you happy.
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Water cooling feels unnecessary and expensive. Like most of my hobbies. I don't get this particular one, but I can appreciate why people might.