[SOLVED] 8-10 Hours

[keyetmoist]

I’m planning on making a new computer and I am not whether or not to get an AIO cooler or Air Cooler. I am also gonna be using this practically 8-10 hours a day and I want a cooler that can last very long. So please tell me if I should get an AIO or Air.

 

[rchris]

Well, the only part that can fail on an air cooler is the fan (or fans), which are easy to replace. AIO coolers are pretty reliable now, but they do suffer pump failures and leaks.

 

[Karadjgne]

Cooler is a cooler, they both work the same, cool the cpu. I've run my pc's for almost 24/7/365 on AIO's, my kids on Air for over 6 years. Nothing but Air prior.

Time used isn't the issue, workload and appropriate cooling is. Just get a cooler that's larger in ability than what you think is necessary and nothing you do will overheat it.

AIO's suffer pump failure and leaks. BS. It's an electronic/physical component. Everything suffers a certain percentage of failure, psus or ram even mobo's or cpus. What you hear/see on the net is the 1% of failures. In 30 years of pc building, tinkering, fixing I've had just about everything fail, sometime, someplace except for the aio. I just last week replaced my 6 year old nzxt Kraken X61. Not for leak, not for anything due to pump failure, but the fans died.

Most all aio failures are due to owner twisting of the tubing putting undue stress on the connectors, in effect creating the leak. Not wanting to admit to user abuse, they just blame the aio leakage on the aio/manufacturer.

And then others (who have no direct experience with leaking AIO's, just repeat the BS.)

 

[keyetmoist]

Ok thank you .

 

[Azzyasi]

I still vote for big air coolers. 1kg of copper and aluminum with heatpipes is a great thermal mass and will do its job even with a dead fan for a while before thermal protection kicks in. And it will be slow and gradual increase in temp with failed fan, while a failed pump in AIO will toast and go into thermal protection within few minutes).

Also replacing an AIO pump is expensive or not even available forcing you for a new cooler when it ill fail, while air cooler is everlasting and if the fan kicks the bucket a new one is cheap enough and pretty standard so no need for a specific OEM part (as AIO pumps are, where you pretty much need at least new waterblock/pump combo as the pump is not user serviceable/replaceable in most cases)

 

[keyetmoist]

I mostly want the AIO mostly for the aesthetics and the low temps. And also if I were not to get the AIO I would get the Noctua D15 but I don’t like the color scheme so I would probably add the chroma fans and top cover but that makes it even more expensive and it is more expensive than the AIO itself. So I’m not sure what to do