Water Cooling Dangers?

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So I'm making the decision to potentially make my system water cooled instead of air cooled and I wanted to know if there were a lot of dangers in doing that, I'm getting my PC built by a guy in town and I was wondering what the biggest danger would be of that, like it leaking or something. The water cooler I'd choose is the Corsair H100i v2.

The second part of my question is that if I chose to go with the water cooling route, would the Corsair H100i v2 fit in the BitFenix Aurora White. The website claims that the Aurora is one of the best cases to choose if you're g oing with liquid cooling. Is this true?
 
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At the time all my parts were relatively new, now those parts seem old. In theory the fluid should be non-conductive, so cleaning with alcohol may save them if you shut everything off quick enough. The problem is the fluid can pick up stuff from the metals over time and becomes conductive over time.

A water cooler has a limited lifespan, an air cooler will last as long as you want. That being said most water coolers should last longer than most of us will keep our PCs.

Are you going to try and push the limits of your chip? The H7 is definitely cheaper. If you are just going to do a mild overclock anyways, or not likely to overclock at all, I don't see any reason to go water cooled anyways. It's just extra money and risk for no...
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Biggest danger? A leak. It's rare, really rare I guess. That being said, it happens. I lost my 3570k build to one, an H80i actually. Lost the the CPU, MB, my GTX 570HD, RAM, PSU, Wireless card, only thing I salvaged from the build was the SSDs and HDs. Corsair is top notch in customer support, I won't knock them for that, they replaced my first one for pump problems, the second was less than a year old, when I had just got back from vacation and went to turn the PC on and it dumped every bit of coolant everywhere. I'm back to large air coolers now. They don't wear out, and you can get similar performance without the risk. Large slow moving fans, and noise really isn't a concern.

With an AIO, I wouldn't worry about "best case" for water cooling. Pick any case you like the looks of, that is known to fit the water cooler you are looking at. And seriously leaks are pretty rare, but they are possible.
 
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So do you think I should go with the water cooling but I'm working with a $1500 build with an 6700k and a 1070. Do you think I should go with a Cryorig H7 just to be safe? Also, if it does leak, what is the probability of losing all of those parts?

 
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At the time all my parts were relatively new, now those parts seem old. In theory the fluid should be non-conductive, so cleaning with alcohol may save them if you shut everything off quick enough. The problem is the fluid can pick up stuff from the metals over time and becomes conductive over time.

A water cooler has a limited lifespan, an air cooler will last as long as you want. That being said most water coolers should last longer than most of us will keep our PCs.

Are you going to try and push the limits of your chip? The H7 is definitely cheaper. If you are just going to do a mild overclock anyways, or not likely to overclock at all, I don't see any reason to go water cooled anyways. It's just extra money and risk for no reason. However I'm biased after my bad experience. Even if for the extreme side of things, there's always the NH-D15 if your case selection would clear it....
 
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