You have 10 seconds to explain why you don't have a custom loop without resorting to 'muh poor'

you have 10 seconds to explain why you don't have a custom loop without resorting to 'muh poor'

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bc fans are better

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overkill

I'm thinking about it but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Can't a good air cooler handle heavy overclocking just fine?

nah. you can't do 1.4V on intels with air, that's for sure

my rig disagrees user

Does it disagree heatedly?

I don't to give my pc an unwanted bath.

too much work, stock air cooler is enough

Wouldn't even know where to begin to do it and im poor

Air cooling is better and just as quiet with the right case

because it's not useful. do it if you like, but good fans will do the same job, without risking a leak on the hardware.

I do.

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Going with air gets you
>lower price
>no risk of destroying your system
>no risk of failure aside from the fans
>less work
>usually quiter

Custom loops are for tards.

Because I have no interest in building one and it's not something that makes any sense without that.

Not OP, but I recently changed from air to water cooling.
>waaaay less dust
>system runs way faster than using air cooling
>never been so easy to overclock my cpu
>literally no change in less or more noise
>dont care much for it, but my guts look all pretty now

Don't need it.

Because water cooling is high-maintenance and I don't want to think about opening my PC again after upgrading it for a long while.

I have a custom loop, I hate it. Never doing it again.

Too expensive, too stressful (didn't have anything go wrong but I still worry it might leak one day), needs more maintenance than just blasting the dust out of it, louder than my previous air cooled setup. Can't upgrade easily because changing the motherboard or GPU will mean finding and installing a new waterblock not to mention the chore of draining and refilling the fucking thing. Can't even move the tower easily because it's heavy as fuck and I don't trust the reservoir mountings no matter how sturdy they are.

The one advantage is that it gets better temps, so my 1080 Ti can boost itself as high as it likes and never breaks 70C. Other than that, waste of time, money and effort.

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>custom loop
>1080ti
>70c
kek

?

What temps do you get? I thought 70C was pretty good since the stock air-cooled ones throttle themselves before they even boost.

All water cooling does is move the problem somewhere else.

You probably bought shitty evga/gigabyte card. I'm running 1080ti gaming x and it doesn't reach 70c on air.

Awesome, so I guess water cooling was a complete waste of time after all.

more points of failure
more maintenance
overkill for my needs

What rads do you have, it's not like one 120mm rad can cool off your whole system.

2x280 rads. 1080 Ti and 7700K. All EKWB blocks, fittings, pump and res. Noctua fans. Be quiet dark base pro 900 case. Mayhems coolant.

I didn't cheap out.

Check for clogs in your GPU block or in the tubes. Soft tubing can collapse over time. You have a nice setup and 70c is just too much for that.

>introducing more than the bare possible minimum points of failure
you don't need to fucking do this shit stop

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Getting 40c max on my 1080ti with a heatkiller block. Something is wrong with your loop/block.

I used to have one ages ago. They just get in the way of upgradability too much and makes every more expensive and a pain in the ass than it needs to be.

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Don't be a retard when assembling the loop.
My 1080ti sitting on 2050mhz at a solid 55°C says you're wrong

I agree with the others. I'm only running a single 360 slim radiator cooling a 3930K @4.5ghz and a 1080ti. The 1080ti doesn't get over 60°C in extended gaming periods.

But I do have a custom loop.

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Too much of a hassle for too small of an improvement.

next time I upgrade my gpu I'll probably get the "new" Hydro X corsair shit and do a custom loop.
Yea it's probably overpriced.
Yea iCue kinda sucks (works on my system :^)
Yea RGB is kinda gay
but I already got all the other iCue RGB gayshit, like virtually my whole PC. So it should sync up at least.
Is it easier to avoid PC liquid explosion with soft tubes? I mean if I'm gonna do the custom loop might as well go all the way with hard toobs but my liquid cooling experience goes as far as AiOs

I've an air-cooled aourus extreme 1080ti and it hits and stats at 70c while auto over clocking itself to 1950 mhz. Massive cooler though and two 8 pin power connectors. Pro tip I took off the sode panel, let your pc breathe bros

yeah I feel like it is very unlikely for a proper implementation to leak, but we're talking one done properly by someone who knows what they're doing, not me, puttering around in my apartment because I want to have a bunch of nikelodeon gak inside of my porn box

This and "MUH CABLE MANAGEMENT" seems like a meme for the masses to parrot so they feel smugly superior to others. For most plebs like me the average cable tangle isn't going to impede airflow that much, nor am I ever going to overclock enough that watercooling would be worth the risk (again, the risk is purely introduced by my own stupidity).

Also performs better in 90% of cases.
Based and fucking redpilled.

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Zero knowledge. I want soft tubes with 445/90 degrees adaptors setup for my 775 but cpu blocks are rare. Maybe a dual radiator in series for better cooling

I've always wondered if it's worth going for copper pipes or otherwise standard plumbing fittings.
Unfortunately, most of the money goes into the waterblocks, so it probably isn't cheaper by any notable amount.

Did you do that yourself?

Water and electronics don't mix.
Like two dicks, and no bitch; you'll find yourself in serious shit.

they got non-conductive liquids you can use now

hard tubing makes it easier to spring a leak apparently

>if it's worth going for copper pipes or otherwise standard plumbing fittings.
>...so it probably isn't cheaper by any notable amount.
You'd be surprised by how much PC watercooling fittings cost, especially if you want fancy stuff like drain, fill, or QDCT lines. I did the comparisons and my method worked out cheaper than buying PC watercooling fittings, though you need to know what you're doing to correctly work with copper. It's much harder than even rigid plastic tubing.

Helps to have a $4000 press-fit tool too.

>inb4 rat's nest

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>x79
the world has moved forward, grandpa

because i dont want to make a mistake and spill all that car coolant onto my expensive pc

I'd rather spend time programming, playing games, or refreshing 4channel than fucking around with bullshit in the case and constantly keeping an eye on it making sure it's not leaking all over

>something leaks
>bye-bye, expensive hardware
Also, I'm on Athlon x4 840, what do I need water cooling for

>the world has moved forward
Not by much. Zen2 soon...

If it's more efficient at exchanging heat will my room get hotter too?

When it comes to Metals it's advised to only have one type in your system, may it be aluminum, copper or nickel (plated copper). Galvanic corrosion from ions or some sheeet.

Only if the components it's cooling are producing more watts worth of heat.

Why use watercooling when..
1. won't see it, pic related.
2. fans are more effective.
3. fans require less maintenance.
4. fans are cheaper.
5. fans are easier.
6. fans are safer.
7. fans are more future proof and modular.

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Too much work, I'm just going to get a Corsair closed loop cooler and call it a day

Because, my dusty as fuck Cooler Master with two fans runs at this temp.

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>all those fans the system needs to run through

Something tells me that it'd be as cool as it can be with fewer fans and heat exchangers because of the room's ambient temp. It isn't like you are using evaporative cooling after all. Thus, that setup is actually more inefficient. I think if you used something other than water, a fluid that wouldn't destroy the PC if it leaked, you'd need the extra fans and heat exchangers.

Not a single cpu comes with a stock cooler anymore

Or your sensors went crazy, kek.

Are you retarded?

Nah, everything is cool to the touch. The GPU is 40C and feel like around 35C when touching one of the heatsink pipes. The CPU heatsink is easiser to touch and its pipes are like slightly above current room temp (75F/23.8C). The CPU is a, "AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, 45nm," which run cool as a cucumber even when under load.

Oh, and I have the side cover off all the time so there's always max ventilation. That made a 10C difference. I'm actually not sure where the cover is now that I think of it. I've not seen it in like 10 years. lol

That's a 125w CPU. Do you really think 25C result in a 23.8C room is a valid reading ?

because I already have too many forms of autism at once and could do without that one in my life

Because 50C at full load on air.

i have an NH-D15.
i dont like increasing the potential points of failure.

Of course, it was idling. The heat sink is like 6 inches across and 3 inches wide with 2 fans. It sticks outside of the case, hence the lack of cover.

I'm not overclocking my ivy bridge

I'm not poor, I'm just stingy. A custom loop makes a build cost about six hundred bucks more and only improves temperatures marginally compared to a well planned air setup. It's a price point I can afford but I cannot justify to myself.

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>go all out on custom loop
>air cooled graphics card
WHIIRRRRRRRR

im broke.

muh poor

air cooling has less points of failure, lesser impact upon failure, and redundancy. And it's good enough.
...also, muh poor.

I don't have any more overclocking headroom. My 2950x won't go above 4GHz, and runs very cool at that. (about 73c under AVX torture test)

Video card, I have no interest in overclocking.

Plus I don't need the headaches that come with water cooling.

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Air is better.

Anyone actually feel more accomplished when they can pull off a decent air setup? As opposed to slapping a generic loop together that's gonna perform well anyway.

YIKES!!!
My aio did not do better on the cpu without deliding so i put it on my 980ti and pushed past 1500 on core and still have temps at 45c.
Something is wrong with your setup bro

Far too much effort for minimal gain compared to air cooling.

>he puts toys in his computer

I think the cooler you go on the silicon it will leak less heat so it should somewhat reduce heat? Assuming all the other components produce the same amount of heat

i plan to use my pc for at least 5 years

I maxed my overclocks out on air.
And its reasonably quiet too.

>Fd R6
>All Silent Wings 3 fans

Pure water is non conductive.

And pure water becomes non-pure as soon as you drop it into your loop.

>splish splash bzzzt
water cooling disasters are a matter of when, not if

HEY GUYS JAYZTWOCENTS HERE, NOW I'VE SHOWN AND ADMITTED ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS THAT WATERCOOLING IS LARGELY USELESS AND A WASTE OF MONEY, BUT YOU SHOULD DO IT ANYWAY BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT A REAL PUTER NERD IF YOU DON'T

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Why would I have to explain anything to you?

I don't overclock and I dust my computers monthly. No need for it

Leaks

Waste of time and resources, benefit is minimal. Ok as entertainment if you are into such things.

Because heatsink->air is quieter than block->water->radiator->air.

Too much effort to put into something that sits under my desk. Air works fine.

Because I simply don't want one due to it probably leaking and killing my 1000$ dollar system?

because I can just slap some noctuas in there and be done with it

It's the turbulence that makes noise, which is exponentially related to air speed you dunce, not the number of components. A 360x120mm radiator needs a tenth of the airflow for the same amount of cooling as your shitty stock cooler.

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Still has fans though so what the fuck to you mean?

Cba maintaining it

I'm too stupid and lazy to do the 10 seconds of google searching it would take to set this up.

Weakling tried to save himself from getting wet before his pc