conventional CPU vs liquid cooled CPU

[cleffa3000]

If you were to compare liquid cooled CPU and conventional CPU, which system works better? Assume they run on the same operating system and software.
1. Which one is better in performance(booting up ,running multiple programs)?
2.Do you encourage people to do water cooling?If yes,under what circumstances?
3.Do you think people will move towards the trend of water cooling after 5 yrs?
4.Do gaming PCs need water cooling?

 

[The_Other_One]

I don't think you completely understand the concept of water cooling... There is no difference in the computer aside from how it's cooled. Thus, there will be no performance increase simply because of water cooling. However, watercooler does manage to keep processors cooler than air-cooled systems, thus you're able to overclock more.

Will people use water cooling more in the future. Doubtful. Unless the technology becomes cheaper, there's really no point. It's more to manage, more to maintain, and more likely for catastrophic failure.

Personally, I don't see any reason to water cool. Regular heatsinks do pretty well and can be fairly quiet now-of-days. Honestly the loudest fans in my system are probably from the power supply

 

[Backwoods166]

If you were to compare liquid cooled CPU and conventional CPU, which system works better? Assume they run on the same operating system and software.
1. Which one is better in performance(booting up ,running multiple programs)?
2.Do you encourage people to do water cooling?If yes,under what circumstances?
3.Do you think people will move towards the trend of water cooling after 5 yrs?
4.Do gaming PCs need water cooling?

+1 vouch for the mods response.

1. same
2. no
3. no
4. no

water cooling's only purpose is for extreme overclocking. Nothing else. Furthermore, in most cases you will hit the limits of your hardware's overclocking on air and the problem won't be temps but rather stability. Temps have never been my limiting factor on quality air cooling. My wall in OC'ing is refusing to send the needed voltage through a CPU that I want to keep around for awhile.

EDIT: My post is strange considering I turn up my overclock when ambient temps are much colder =D. And truth be told my temps are fine in summer @ 3.6. The stable limit I have hit so far is 3.6 and I don't run any system 24/7 at my known cieling. When I do push the limits I want 100% stability. That means starting linpack and walking away for 24 hours+. So when I torture my cpu I feel better with cold ambient temps