Liquid or air cool?

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Tweed

Tweed

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Which one should I do? I have a 6700k, and my case is the InWin 805. I want something that looks good in my case, but is reliable and will last me for a lifetime and is quiet. Water cooling seem risky with potential water leaks, but it looks better with my PC. Air cooling is more reliable and is pretty much 100% fail-safe, but it doesn't really go well with my case having a huge block of heat sink in the middle of the case, and my case can only fit 156mm. What do you guys recommend? I was looking to getting the NZXT x61 and for air cooling I'm unsure of what would be my choice, Phanteks PH-TC14S? Noctua fans and heatsinks are ugly and don't really match my "batman theme" I'm going for.
 
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nukemaster

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You are pretty much correct, Air cooling is much less prone to problems.

Liquid coolers have a pump that can fail(and also makes noise in many cases) and in rare circumstances they can leak. After some amount of time the liquid will evaporate as well(this is something custom loops do not have to worry about because topping off is easy.).

This is not to say liquid coolers are useless, They do work well enough(but for the same price large air coolers cool as good and better)

Depending on your needs you may be able to use a smaller air cooler.

I say this as a user with 2 of those all in one liquid coolers(space constrains in my case made them a good option).
 
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