What is your oppinion on water cooling vs. air cooling?

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If you want high end overclocks, and ability to add a gpu or especially dual gpus into the loop makes water cooling a necessity. Depends how much you want to go. Unless your case/motherboard allows a great distance between two running gpus and your case has great air circulation you really need water cooling blocks to keep those cards cool or one will suffocate the others air circulation and cause a lot of problems with throttling one gpu and not the other due to temps. Also, if you plan for high overclocks there is only a certain amount even the best air coolers can handle, while with water cooling your sending the heat out to a radiator and several fans, which either exhaust or intake the air to cool down the water. Also, if your case...
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If you want high end overclocks, and ability to add a gpu or especially dual gpus into the loop makes water cooling a necessity. Depends how much you want to go. Unless your case/motherboard allows a great distance between two running gpus and your case has great air circulation you really need water cooling blocks to keep those cards cool or one will suffocate the others air circulation and cause a lot of problems with throttling one gpu and not the other due to temps. Also, if you plan for high overclocks there is only a certain amount even the best air coolers can handle, while with water cooling your sending the heat out to a radiator and several fans, which either exhaust or intake the air to cool down the water. Also, if your case is small or motherboard is small, a lot of the bigger heavier duty air coolers will have problems fitting inside the case or hit the ram.
 
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