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I never understood why people would spend $100-$150 on a closed loop cooler when they don't do that great of a job.
You could run a real loop for ~$25-$75 more. Then include your GPU(s) in the loop as well.
I bought my H100i (the older version) on sale, was substantially less than 100 burgerunits.
Either way, the justification falls within ease of use and time investment. If all you want is "good enough" cooling for your medium high overclocked gaming rig that you can simply slap on and it works out of the box, then why not.
Building your own custom loop requires a lot more research and installation time compared to that procedure, in addition to that people whom are less "practically inclined" might be put off to the idea of themselves having to secure and fit tubes that'll carry liquids right on top of their precious hardware. I am a chemical engineer so for me personally it boils down to being criminally lazy, but I could see why people rather not get into all that.
Is it so you can tell people you have water cooling with minimal effort?
It seems silly to pay such a high price for such a sub par cooling solution.
No, it's because my old Lynnfield i7 Intel Core 860 went to 90C+ in certain CPU-heavy games with the intel stock cooler at stock frequency, and there was a 30% sale on the H100i. Now it runs at 60C max during full load, clocked from 2.8GHz stock to 3.7GHz with frequency headroom still available, massive performance boost in games as it was very badly bottlenecking my GPU.
Sub par cooling? Liquid cooling efficiency is mostly a function of radiator surface area and the air flow speed across the radiator surface (assuming you're not willing to turn off heating to decrease the ambient temperature of course), i.e how much liquid to air convection you can generate over the radiator. Now with a custom loop you can get as many radiators as you'd ever want, but apart from that's it's very much the same.
My GTX1060 is already doing fine on the stock air coolers clocked to the maximum stable frequency, and my motherboard isn't exactly getting hot either. In my case, why would I bother hooking up the entire computer to a custom built loop system when I could get the results I needed for my purposes both cheaper and with much less effort? I understand that tinkering with your computer can be a hobby in itself, but for me it isn't and is rather a means to an end to facilitate my gaming hobby.
As with any project, the best choice is the one that fits your needs while also being the cheapest and the most practical to implement. For me that was an H100i, and that might also be the case for the OP, even though more powerful/efficient solutions exists than the CLC's from Corsair.
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