Pros and Cons of AIO

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[farlonmuentes]

i initially thought water coolers are great especially on the looks department but when my friend bought one and after a few months it failed and had a leak, i changed my mind. water coolers may have a small chance of failing but that fail could ruin your whole system.

[josepio]

Personally, I'd go with Air cooling since even though at both of their bests AIO is slightly colder and looks slightly cooler (pun intended) air cooling is just a lot less of a hassle and it is less prone to failure

[Drejkol]

Air is pretty much eternal and failure-free. Also, while it's chunky it doesn't have to look bad. In case of the Noctuas, you can just replace included fans with something like CM mf120/140 and keep the amazing performance and the RGB for little of the price increase.

As for the AIO's, the high-end one is not only 2-3 times pricier than the best Air coolers (like Noctua D15) but also you have to replace it every 5 years or so, meanwhile you can still use your 9 years old D15 and it still as good as it was back in the day. Maybe fans might get loud so you gonna have to change them for ~50€ but that's it. It will still cool your 13900k as fine as it was cooling your 2600k back in the day.

[killakame-]

There is a saying ' Old is Gold '

[zerefdragneel]

i use aio before.. well after 8-9 month my cpu temp increased even though in idle mode..the pump also have some weird sound..ahahah..went back to air cooler and all good since then..

[Syrussk]

Currently watching this video while my aio is making an annoying clicking/buzzing noise. Go with air cooling.

[marcelmathes]

Don't forget the pump noise, that was the reason for switch back to an aircooler

[AmtrakFlareon]

Also RMA exists so don’t immediately stress if an AIO poops out on you

[fishmob]

I was recommended to go with liquid cooling since I record my voice a lot, and the fans love to add unneeded background noise. If I get liquid cooling, is there ways I can ensure a failure doesn't happen, even if it's unlikely?

[mysticdragonwolf]

I use Ice Giant Elite — temperature maintains steady temp even with load.

[DeltaComp]

The chances of a failure in water cooling may be low, but the consequences of it failing are potentially very costly.

[jvlivsakamaxiaid]

I just had pump failure on my Corsair h150i AIO after less than 1 month of use.

[ultramasterultra]

Since my I use an i3 12100f I just use the included cooler which is small and the temps are ok

[tomburden]

I think the Noctua D15 looks bad ass. Who doesn't like a giant chunk of metal with fans!😂

[MrExdous]

I am trying to decide between an aio probably either the evga clcx 240mm or similar and the Noctua nhd15.

Can’t decide. I have a Ryzen 5 7600x

[LoganRicardo]

I'm sticking with my NH-U12A Chromax Black 😅

[illuviium]

I’ve had my THERMALTAKE prebuild for a year and 3 months and my AIO failed already. Sucks . Really sucks cause I know nothing of PC repairs and damages and how to fix them and my pump just started heating way the hell up after turning it on and stuff and I took it to geek squad and they just flat out told me (bad pump). When I think it was just clogged and so they gave me a Corsair pump and radiator and now I do not know for the life of me how to sync the RGB.
I was running MSI dragon for my whole rig and now that won’t work and nothing I try syncs all my 8 fans up and it’s the most depressing thing. Why even have a rig with all this RGB and I can’t even see it turn on

[burubugdugbuginug]

Do you really know what you are talking about? AIOs and Tower cooler basically can perform the same, it is just basically a preference. Besides, tower coolers are more durable in the long run.

[diewelt]

air over aio. Aio is not better thn air its worse because the heat cant dissappear fast enough in that closed loop system even with a 240mm one

[cemsengul]

All the people praising AIO liquid cooling never mention the sound of a high pitch pump running all the time. Believe me air cooling is more quiet. What is the point of fans spinning slowly with a loud pump?