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I'm 14 so when spending a lot of money on a pc water cooling is terrifying for the reasons of videos like water cooling pipe burst and stuff like that. And yes I know I'm being irrational and I know that I can return the components and get new ones. But it would still suck to spend 2-3k on a setup and it leak like 6 months down the road. So what I'm asking is water cooling really worth the risk or is it just easy overclocking performance?
 
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My canned rant on liquid cooling:
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You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the...
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My canned rant on liquid cooling:
------------------------start of rant-------------------
You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
-----------------------end of rant--------------------------

Your pc will be quieter, more reliable, and will be cooled equally well with a decent air cooler.
 
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Ight so my current Phanteks PH-TC14PE would do just fine for say a 4.5ghz overclock

 
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About as good as it gets.
How high you can oc a cpu is mostly determined by your luck in getting a good chip.
Modern intel processors run cool. If you try to OC amd FX-xxx, then temperatures matter also.
 
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Pretty decent canned rant from geofelt that really covers it.

I use an AIO cooler in my build, simply due to lack of airflow. I've only got a ~$900CAD build.

Liquid cooling is much like gambling, where you should only gamble with the money you can afford to lose.
You should only use liquid cooling if you accept the risks associated with it & are prepared to scrap the rig/build a new one in the event something goes really, really wrong - afterall, liquid + electronics is never a good idea.

Everybody is in a different situation - personally, I'm comfortable gambling with a ~$900 build, but I'm 99% sure I would reconsider at a $2-3,000 build.
 
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