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Air cooling is just better (usenet.lol)

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Air is better than water

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[–] Why9 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An excellent air cooler does beat a shitty AiO.

The inverse is also true, that an excellent AiO beats a shitty air cooler. It's obvious, I just wonder why it was omitted. For anyone reading, it's far cheaper and gets you the same, if not better performance (though I'd argue that your case's air flow properties, as well as ambient temperature and space around the tower also factor in tremendously!)

But an excellent water cooler beats an excellent air cooler.

Are the differences noticeable? What constitutes an excellent air cooler anyway? Even the Peerless Assassin is like $40 - $60? I think you're just getting diminishing returns per dollar on water cooled setups. The performance really depends on whether you're using crazy liquids like coolants inside your loops, as opposed distilled water, for example.

[–] v81 1 points 1 year ago

It's obvious, I just wonder why it was omitted... It was omitted because.... and you said it yourself... "It's obvious".

Are the differences noticeable? Yes, very much so. Both in performance and the fact that in some situations the mechanical load a massive tower puts on a motherboard can get a bit dodgy.