How safe is water cooling and is it a lot more cooler than air cooling?

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Water cooling, even preassembled aio's have their quirks. There are more parts, more moving things like the pump etc that can fail. When a pump fails it means buying a new aio vs merely replacing a fan on a heatsink. Aio's normally don't leak but it's not impossible either. Every now and then someone has one leak and best case scenario the pc just shuts down due to thermal throttling of the cpu. Otherwise if it leaks it typically leaks on the gpu or other components and can take them out.

Whether it looks better or not is personal taste, neither is wrong. I tend to prefer air coolers, not only for safety and quiet cooling but for appearance. Others prefer the look of water cooling. It depends on the cpu, something like an fx 9590 may...
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Water cooling merely relocates the weight of the cooler. Closed loop liquid coolers are usually louder and don't perform better at a much higher cost.They only make sense with certain cases with poor airflow where you need to relocate the heatsink.
 
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Louder? That's new. Maybe if you get a super small and thick rad. My pc doesn't make any noise.

Water cooling is safe as it can be (if you buy a closed loop at least). But they are more expensive. I only got mine because I got a case with a window and it looks better.
 
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Water cooling, even preassembled aio's have their quirks. There are more parts, more moving things like the pump etc that can fail. When a pump fails it means buying a new aio vs merely replacing a fan on a heatsink. Aio's normally don't leak but it's not impossible either. Every now and then someone has one leak and best case scenario the pc just shuts down due to thermal throttling of the cpu. Otherwise if it leaks it typically leaks on the gpu or other components and can take them out.

Whether it looks better or not is personal taste, neither is wrong. I tend to prefer air coolers, not only for safety and quiet cooling but for appearance. Others prefer the look of water cooling. It depends on the cpu, something like an fx 9590 may very well require a dual/triple fan aio. An i5 or i7, medium to large air coolers are plenty and overclocks will typically top out due to vcore restraints/limits rather than thermal issues.

Custom water cooling is where liquid cooling really shines for heat dissipation, looks and quiet operation (lower speed fans on an overradded system). They're pretty expensive and a lot more work, maintenance etc but they also use much higher quality pumps and things.
 
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Water cooling definitely has its uses but unless you want to go with custom water cooling I'd say air cooling can be plenty.
I'm not an expert in this area but I have a very recent experience. My 4790k ran up to 92 degrees. First I thought I'd better get an AIO cooler but they can be noisy. So I installed a DeepCool Assassin II and it wouldn't go any higher than 65 degrees. Did some further cable management and moved some fans around and now the CPU won't go past 59. It's also Smoooooth, Quiet and Reliable.
 
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