Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get?
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoWater cooling is intellectually interesting to me and I love the aesthetic but I would never choose it for my build. I don’t have disposable income if something went really wrong. I also would never clean the water.
I never have to think about my air coolers, I love them.
will@piefed.zip 2 days ago
You don’t change the water on an AIO, it’s an all-in-one. I’ve never had a leak, but I did have a pump that failed so it stopped cooling and made a terrible noise
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
AIO don’t have a leaking issue but overlocking isn’t really a things anymore so I view it as a waste of money imo. I do agree that it looks cleaner but all my pc builds are not displayed so outside of performance, it does not matter to me with how it looks.
bisby@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Boost clocks depend on thermal headroom. Better cooling will get you better performance still, even if you aren’t manually over clocking.
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
A good air cooler, which is cheap, gives you all the headroom you need.