Air Cooling or Water Cooling

[petetuchinda]

I know this is kind of weird but suppose you have an option to create a custom water cooling for the exact same price as making an air cooled system which one would you choose?

If possible please list any negatives of points I should be aware when planning on using a water loop system.

Components of the System
CPU: Ryzen 2700x
RAM: Corsair White LED 16 GB 3000 Mhz
GPU: MSI 1070ti Titanium
Motherboard: MSI MB X370 Titanium
SSD: M.2 SSD 256GB Micron
PSU: 600Watt 80plus Gold
Cooling Components:
- XSPC Photon 170 Glass
- XSPC X4 Pump combo
- XSPC Fitting 17ea
- XSPC Raystorm Pro Silver
- XSPC PETG Silver 3meter
- XSPC Coolant Clear
- XSPC Raditor 240 Crossflow

 

[kanewolf]

Air. Custom water requires a lot more maintenance. AIO water, maybe but not custom water, IMO.

 

[petetuchinda]

Air. Custom water requires a lot more maintenance. AIO water, maybe but not custom water, IMO.

Does AIO Water require any maintenance or just plug it into the system and I'm good to go?

 

[Swordkd]

Plug it in and go. Eventually you might worry about it going dry, but I've had one running for over 2 years and no worries. For most budgets though, air cools better for the money spent.

 

[paulchabot8989]

with water the rate of cooling has to be more then the rate that the processor heats it or it no good
a water system still has fans and air system fans can get pretty quite too nowadays