Liquid cooling vs Air

HypoticHD

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So I am 'building' a pc on CyberPower and I wanted to know if liquid cooling would be better for my system then air?
(Please tell me if there is anything else I should add/remove to this pc. Bare in mind I would like it to last as long as possible and run current/future games at ultra settings e.g. BF 4 Crysis etc...

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No, not necessarily. My water cooling loop is very loud (the fans on the radiator) because I don't care about the noise and I want to squeeze every last bit of cooling performance out of it. Liquid cooling can be as loud or louder than air cooling. It can also be dead silent. But, with closed loop coolers, you don't really get silent cooling.

AmishFury

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it really depends on what you're going for... if you want dead quiet liquid could be a good idea (depending on the radiator and the fans being used)... if you're going for extreme OCs liquid can also help

air will always be cheaper and easier to install... and fewer things that can go massively wrong (liquid cooling could have a pump fail or spring a leak and your system could be in a worse place than if say a fan goes out)
 

HypoticHD

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So liquid cooling is basically just to keep the noise level down
 

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No, not necessarily. My water cooling loop is very loud (the fans on the radiator) because I don't care about the noise and I want to squeeze every last bit of cooling performance out of it. Liquid cooling can be as loud or louder than air cooling. It can also be dead silent. But, with closed loop coolers, you don't really get silent cooling.
 
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