Liquid cooling or more fans?

[Gaming Freak]

Hey all, lately I have been having some issues with my computer pumping out heat. When I first built my computer, I did not want to have it water cooled because I was afraid of messing it up and ruining my PC. However, now I am thinking that it might be the way to go. Right now when I game my computer runs around 68-76 C. I know that these are actually pretty good temps under a load, but the room that I have it in is very small so it gets hot when my computer runs for a little while. I thought about mounting more fans, but I'm afraid of it getting louder. Aside from the fact that you can make water cooling look awesome, I know pretty much nothing about water cooling. So my question is, what is the best option? Water cooling or more fans?

Here is my build:
AMD Fx 8350 quad core
MSI R9 290
8GB RAM
Seasonic 850 W
1x 200mm fan (front-in)
2x 120mm fans (one back-out, one top-out)
Cooler master Heatsink

 

[Spectre694]

Neither option will make your room cooler the heat must still go somewhere.

Though I guess with water you could run the rads to a different room.

 

[dklims]

Hey all, lately I have been having some issues with my computer pumping out heat. When I first built my computer, I did not want to have it water cooled because I was afraid of messing it up and ruining my PC. However, now I am thinking that it might be the way to go. Right now when I game my computer runs around 68-76 C. I know that these are actually pretty good temps under a load, but the room that I have it in is very small so it gets hot when my computer runs for a little while. I thought about mounting more fans, but I'm afraid of it getting louder. Aside from the fact that you can make water cooling look awesome, I know pretty much nothing about water cooling. So my question is, what is the best option? Water cooling or more fans?

Here is my build:
AMD Fx 8350 quad core
MSI R9 290
8GB RAM
Seasonic 850 W
1x 200mm fan (front-in)
2x 120mm fans (one back-out, one top-out)
Cooler master Heatsink

Unfortunately physics doesn't work in your favor here. There is nothing you can do to your pc that will make the ambient temperature of the room not rise (other than turn it off and not use it).

water cooling allows your computer to dissipate heat from itself (into your room) better than air cooling does. The heat generated from computer cannot simply disappear. Your computer, weather water cooled or air cooled, will use the ambient air in the room to cool itself thus dissipating its heat into the air.

The only way to prevent your room from heating up would be some type of ventilation in the room itself, to bring in new air and expel old air out of the room. Think of your room as a giant computer case, you need fans to bring air in and out to maintain a consistent temperature.

I recommend first, turning off your heat in the room if its on when you play and maybe open a window if you have one. Good luck! let me know if this was helpful or unclear at all or anything.