Is water cooling worth it?

[FinnishArmy]

I have a i5-3570 (non k) with load temperatures of about 55-63 C, I was wondering if water cooling will even change that temperature enough to make a noticable differance?
If it does make a difference, then by how much?

 

[SidBurton]

Water Cooling is much quieter then fans.
But comes at a greater risk if you have no idea what you're doing or how to properly setup.

Also, it does make a change to water-cooling, more then the average fan and what some others can do.

And, you need to make sure it fits in your case. As some are D-I-Y.

 

[geofelt]

Those load temperatures are fine.
The cpu will not throttle or shut down until it nears 100c.

Since your cpu is not overclockable, there will be no voltage change and no increase in temperature.

The main reason you might want to change from the stock intel cooler is for noise reduction.
A simple air cooler with a 120mm fan would be sufficient.

 

[FinnishArmy]

Water Cooling is much quieter then fans.
But comes at a greater risk if you have no idea what you're doing or how to properly setup.

Also, it does make a change to water-cooling, more then the average fan and what some others can do.

And, you need to make sure it fits in your case. As some are D-I-Y.

So would you say that a all-in-one water block is good enough to make a change in temps?

 

[FinnishArmy]

Those load temperatures are fine.
The cpu will not throttle or shut down until it nears 100c.

Since your cpu is not overclockable, there will be no voltage change and no increase in temperature.

The main reason you might want to change from the stock intel cooler is for noise reduction.
A simple air cooler with a 120mm fan would be sufficient.

I am using a pretty big after market cooler with 2 140mm with fan control.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Lets first get one thing sorted out.

Custom liquid cooling loops is what is more beneficial over air cooling. It's quieter, and FAR more powerful.

AIO Liquid coolers, are equal to their massive air cooling counterparts. The high end 360mm and 240mm should win over a air cooler, but by only a few degrees.

 

[cosmoji]

what's being gotten is that the temps you are seeing are perfectly healthy load temps. you have no reason to change your cooling solution for temperatures.

water cooling has 2 real benefits. looking fancy doesnt count. the first is improved cooling. water cooling if often much more efficient at pulling heat off a component than traditional air cooling. but, as has been said, you do not need this. you are already at safe temps.

the second is noise. moving the heat dissipation surface to a good sized radiator allows you to have several slow spinning fans cool it rather than the higher rpm speeds you'd usually find in an air cooler on a component. slower fans are quieter.

so if you want to change to an aio for sound, go for it. but you do not need to for temperatures.

keep in mind though that all in one water loops are not terribly more efficient than a high end aftermarket air cooler temp wise. and a custom loop is not only much much more expensive, but take up much more room and are considerably complex for newcomers. i have no doubt you could do your research and learn how to build one, but again, it seems overkill for your use.

 

[Tradesman1]

as an example a $35 Hyper 212 EVO will cool almost as well as an ($100) H100 - so if going liquid, be prepared to spend some money (and may well have to put up with more noise)

 

[FinnishArmy]

what's being gotten is that the temps you are seeing are perfectly healthy load temps. you have no reason to change your cooling solution for temperatures.

water cooling has 2 real benefits. looking fancy doesnt count. the first is improved cooling. water cooling if often much more efficient at pulling heat off a component than traditional air cooling. but, as has been said, you do not need this. you are already at safe temps.

the second is noise. moving the heat dissipation surface to a good sized radiator allows you to have several slow spinning fans cool it rather than the higher rpm speeds you'd usually find in an air cooler on a component. slower fans are quieter.

so if you want to change to an aio for sound, go for it. but you do not need to for temperatures.

keep in mind though that all in one water loops are not terribly more efficient than a high end aftermarket air cooler temp wise. and a custom loop is not only much much more expensive, but take up much more room and are considerably complex for newcomers. i have no doubt you could do your research and learn how to build one, but again, it seems overkill for your use.

So basically it's virtually useless to get water cooling?

 

[1LiquidPC]

AIO kits generally aren't better than "big air" tower coolers for temps/noise. However, some of these giant coolers are going to be heavy, and put considerable strain/flex on the motherboard. The AIO kits also don't use the best quality of components either. When you get into custom(depending on budget), things get much better in favor of watercooling. You can have much lower noise than aircooling, much better temps especially for GPUs. Also, after a certain point for OCing, air cooling just can't keep up w/ higher voltages. Besides these reasons, people(including myself)just like to have their PCs watercooled.

 

[Tradesman1]

AIO kits generally aren't better than "big air" tower coolers for temps/noise. However, some of these giant coolers are going to be heavy, and put considerable strain/flex on the motherboard. The AIO kits also don't use the best quality of components either. When you get into custom(depending on budget), things get much better in favor of watercooling. You can have much lower noise than aircooling, much better temps especially for GPUs. Also, after a certain point for OCing, air cooling just can't keep up w/ higher voltages. Besides these reasons, people(including myself)just like to have their PCs watercooled.

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But for a non-K 3570? If you had the money to blow on a custonm loop, sink it into a better CPU

 

[1LiquidPC]

I'd also upgrade other parts if the OP has money to burn. Temps are fine for a 3570. I was actually responding to the "it's virtually useless to get water cooling". Not sure if the OP meant this in general, or their particular setup.

 

[Y0GI]

HERE (LINK) is a review of 4 AIO coolers against the Noctua NH D14 air cooler (12/30/2012). No advantage to AIO and some are really noisy under full load.

Yogi