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Air is better than water

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[–] Ovent 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm CPU/GPU cooled for a good while now (4-5y). It's a lot of efforts and make it harder to upgrade. You gain a bit of silence, but it's really not worth for most people. Like you said, it's more of a hobbit than anything.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it’s more of a hobbit than anything.

Bilbo Fannings

[–] Wild_Mastic 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

...and The Two Towers.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, upgrading is definitely a pain and more costly. Redoing the tubes if you went with hard tubing is part of it. If you didn’t go with some generic waterblocks you’re stuck with them fitted to the motherboard and good luck reassembling the fan cooler on the gpu if you kept the 50 small screws that held it all together.

That said, I personally won’t go back to air cooled. The low noise and steady temperature are worth it IMO.