Water Cooling

[SpiderPig]

Hey guys, any one here have a water cooled rig?  I'm thinking of doing mine as I'm tired of all the dust inside and on the fan inlets but don't know much about water cooling...

[CJO Games]

I had water cooling on my previous build (AMD FX-8350)  and it was effective at cooling that super hot CPU but dust remained an issue - more so actually as the cooling radiator resembled the fins on the back of a refrigerator which made them harder to clean than a normal air-cooled setup. To see a benefit I think it really depends on the CPU and what type of load it is under. Water cooling was really the only effective solution for the FX-8350 CPU that I found but it was also noisy and needed a lot of ongoing maintenance.

My current setup i3 10105f which is equivalent to the FX-8350 (four core - eight threads) but much less power hungry and never as warm is air cooled and I haven't found any issues with this yet.

If dust is a problem I don't think the water cooling option will change that - only passive cooling will prevent that and for effective passive cooling you will need an under-powered CPU or an expensive case (or both)...

[SpiderPig]

Thanks for the info.  Dust is my main problem and I thought less fans meant less dust but I can see that might not be the case...

[CJO Games]

Yeah you don't really want to reduce fans with water cooling and the main fan that you have built in to cooling is - if you buy the right one is much more powerful than a standard air cooler - more like a case fan - you still need to provide air flow into the case as well so in effect you are increasing air-flow - hence more dust! 

[SpiderPig]

Ah I see.  Glad I asked before buying one, thanks