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
(Random air cooler pictured above)
Is water-cooling safe? Or is it bourgeoise decadence?
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AIO is the way to go imo on modern computers. Self contained. Fairly easy setup.
Now a DIY watercooling setup is…risky and expensive. Custom parts. Makemsure you know what you are doing yadda yadda.
They make motherboards and GPUs specific for DIY whole system coolings and they look sweet AF but can have so many things go wrong. Plugging channels, leaks. But AIOs are pretty safe if you don’t completly cheap out and do some research and compare before you buy.
If you are getting anything above an i5 or one of those AMD x3Ds I would say water cooling is a must.