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ScOuT
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It really depends on what you plan on doing with the computer, case and your budget.
90% of normal computer users can cool with air and be perfectly within safe with operating temperatures for hardware. The main reason people cool with liquid is extreme overclocking or just because they want to.
When people build a system...liquid cooling is another hurdle they want to conquer. Kinda like the feeling you are never really satisfied so you have to always go bigger.
Myself...I am perfectly happy with air, great temps and it's less maintenance. But, I have thought about a sick custom liquid cooling set up in my case more than once
90% of normal computer users can cool with air and be perfectly within safe with operating temperatures for hardware. The main reason people cool with liquid is extreme overclocking or just because they want to.
When people build a system...liquid cooling is another hurdle they want to conquer. Kinda like the feeling you are never really satisfied so you have to always go bigger.
Myself...I am perfectly happy with air, great temps and it's less maintenance. But, I have thought about a sick custom liquid cooling set up in my case more than once
CdnAudiophile
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Even liquid cooled computers use fans on the radiators. It really is about the heat you are generating and making sure you are dissipating the heat enough. With liquid cooled computers there is more to go wrong and a failure at a fitting can cause you to loose your whole rig. Like the poster above said, It is for extreme overclocks and the people that want to go above and beyond your typical cooling.
Note that the manufacturer designs the processor to operate at a given frequency. Overclocking certainly reduces reliability. I remember buying back 35 computers from a customer because one of techs had overclocked the processors and the entire batch had intermittent problems. Resetting the clocks solved all the problems but I had to find a new customer for the 35 computers. If you don't need these things, don't use them. I don't. I use a quad core processor running at 2.66 ghz and it runs everything I've ever fed to it quite nicely. These things can become hobby issues rather than computer issues.