Worried about aio leaking

[michaelgerber]

Hii I'm planning to build a budget build with a Ryzen 5 2400g APU and I thought I should probably add some nice cooling for the build as I might do some overclocking, but I have a budget of about 60 euros for a AIO so I was worried that a cheap AIO like the Maelstrom 240T might be at a risk of leaking at some time in the future.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, any liquid cooler can leak. Cheap or expensive.

A 'non-cheap' one may give you a bit more security in case it does leak.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3673449/corsair-damage-claim.html

60 euro, I wouldn't do it.
A good air cooler will never leak.

 

[michaelgerber]

Cool thanx man I thought about it but wanted a second opinion.

 

[USAFRet]

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Question from michaelgerber : "Worried about aio leaking"

Hii I'm planning to build a budget build with a Ryzen 5 2400g APU and I thought I should probably add some nice cooling for the build as I might do some overclocking, but I have a budget of about 60 euros for a AIO so I was worried that a cheap AIO like the Maelstrom 240T might be at a risk of leaking at some time in the future.

 

[JamesSneed]

All good advice. There has been a trend to have AIO cooling but it doesn't perform better than the best air cooling. So really the only time AIO should be considered from a practical/performance standpoint is when you have a smaller case where the AIO would physically fit where a decent sized air cooler would not. So IMO choose air over AIO in all but very small builds as air is coolers are so much more reliable and even the failures, ie fan failures, are never catastrophic ever since CPU's thermally throttle(all modern desktop CPU's do now).