China has made AIO air coolers cheaper and more reliable. They are 😍 beautiful and really want one with that infinity mirror but I am terrified of one leaking and destroying my entire computer.
I'm struggling to pick an AIO water cooler or a gigantic air cooler
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(Random air cooler pictured above)
Is water-cooling safe? Or is it bourgeoise decadence?
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I just really don't like them. The performance gain isn't worth the maintenance and fear of waterboarding my pc.
I like good ole fashion cheapo fans. And a lot of em.
If my computer was supposed to have water in it, it would have come with scuba gear
I didn't know there was maintenance on AIOs
I mean there's not really but either your pump is gonna break or the liquid will evaporate.
To me it's just much easier to plug in a fan then to replace an AIO
can't you still get basically the same performance with a big radiator and fans? I was pretty sure the appeal of liquid cooling was still form factor/aesthetics, not that it's actually better
I think the 2 coolers in the pictures actually perform exactly the same, it's just massive and would block RGB RAM if you have it lol
I once forgot to put the o-ring on my CPU block (the rubber between the copper block and acrylic top) & it's made a really funny fountain.
Anyways, I just used a rag on the biggest puddles & it was fine (didn't wait for it to dry, but the ATX power plug and pcie slots didn't seem to get water inside, and I blew the water out of memory slots since it really stuck there). This was back in Intel 6th gen era on a Maximus mobo. Everything nowdays is super safe & top quality, it's hard to damage components.
But some 20 years ago I killed by mobo bcs my printer had a bit of static electricity in it and the USB cable made a lil arch the moment before I plugged it. Mobo deaded, not just a port or onboard hub. I assume north bridge got fried. What bs, wtf.