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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
The PC my son and I built as his undgrad graduation present last June has a water cooler in it, but I'm not sure it's more efficient than a good set of fans, not to mention they have fans anyway.
I agree it looks better and more "hi tech", but as mentioned earlier may computer is usually out of 90% of sight. The way my desk is setup, it sits behind the left of my three monitors.
I also don't typically overclock my computers either. I have done that in the past but in recent years have preferred to just leave well enough alone.
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i'm very similar. though the small advantage that water cooling has is minimizing fan noise. in a quieter setting, it can be preferable to move and/or consolidate the heat to a radiator and a few fans instead of multiple fans to blow on the heatsinks,
and multiple fans to direct airflow through the case
i'm not convinced that there's any thermal advantage until one goes into overclocking though.