Why did watercooled pc fall out of favor?

Why did watercooled pc fall out of favor?
they were the hot thing only a few years ago but more and more just switch to Air cooled even over AIO

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Gee, I wonder why people don't want water near their expensive electronics that they use to play their games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      distilled water doesn't damage computer components
      you can wash your motherboard in distilled water even

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it's no longer distilled once it hits the dust inside

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        water causes short circuits that fry your components

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The failure rates on water coolers were ridiculous, and overclocking was a niche of a niche

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Why did watercooled pc fall out of favor?
      It didn't. AIOs are more popular than ever
      >they were the hot thing only a few years ago but more and more just switch to Air cooled even over AIO
      Source? High-end modern CPUs basically require a 360 rad for optimal boosting

      >Source: my sphincter

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        How easily you forget there's an entire youtube industry of people telling rig builders to stop putting radiators in with the return above the pump

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    risk:reward is not worth it.
    price not worth it/
    extra maintenance not worth it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This
      Plus they aren't really that necessary anymore, fans are getting better

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The FANS aren't getting that much better, the CPU's are running more efficiently and thus run cooler at max capacity.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    AIOs used to be ridiculously expensive, now it's the other way around. Both are pretty much overkill unless you're running a 13th gen i9.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    temps arent different from a regular noctua fan

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      why the FRICK does noctua insist on their 1 shitty color scheme

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        soul
        they've since released black (soulless) variants though.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        they make different colors

        at least they arent covered in leds.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          These guys are so bulky I love them

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        they don't but you'll pay like $10 more for a coat of paint on them
        but why would you, the shit brown is soul

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        goes with biege case and my biege crt and my biege mouse and my biege keyboard THAT'S WHY

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        free advertising every time some homosexual posts a pic of their rig and people know at a glance what kind of cooler it is

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        so itll match my gpu

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Who gives a shit about the color of a fricking fan. Just paint it or something you vain homosexual.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        why do you insist one using one fricking brain cell

        they've made black versions for like 6 years now

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >filtered over the color of a fan
        function over form

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Those colors are soul. Its proof of someone who knows their shit and has good taste in high quality.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          cope, it looks like some shit from 30 years ago

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I'd rather have beige and brown over more rainbows than a pride parade.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Good.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            And that's a good thing

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why do you look at your computer instead of playing games?
        The whole fricking case could be brown and I wouldn't give a shit.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        they have "chromax.black" line now

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Because it is immediately recognizable. You see a pic of any PC hardware and notice a block of pale beige/dark brown, you IMMEDIATELY know it's a Noctua cooler. No need for a logo or anything. How many brands can compete with that?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        what the frick does the color matter. no one is going to see the fan

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Pohatu was the best girl, frick Galigays and her manshoulders.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not a FAN of earthy tones for tech?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They sell one in ugly color and one in pretty one, make the pretty one more expensive but you get hooked by the cheaper one and then you buy the more expensive one.
        Marketing 101: providing 'inferior' version for cheap but make it unattractive enough to make people want to buy the more expensive one after the initial hook.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I do agree that their brown/beige is ugly as sin in any modern build but the grey/dark grey ones they make are hands down the coolest looking non-rgb fans on the market

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Some people don't like having to put literal bricks in the middle of their cases

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yeah most non whites hate putting things that work well in their pc.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People realized you still need fans to cool the water, so why bother.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's more like custom loops stopped being popular for obvious reasons. AIOs are pretty popular still

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >more and more just switch to Air cooled even over AIO
    it's the other way around tho. good aio is around 120 and a high end air cooler costs basically the same for worse temps. custom loop is just too much of a hassle for most people and was never really widespread

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Air coolers perform just as good for less money and work.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    for me, it's the scythe fuma 2

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is my first and only cooler I've bought. Still serves me very well.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I have a Kotetsu but it barely can keep up with my overclocked FX-8300.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I was wrong I have an Ashura. They don't have it on their website anymore. Also Kabuto was a good one.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    open loops are for enthusiasts.
    most people just buy AIOs because they cba

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What about immersion cooling, anyone here courageous enough to immerse their PC in mineral oil?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I would but I/O seems like a pain in the ass plus it seems like it would attract a disgusting layer of dust.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i watched that youtube video. the liquid gets dirty fast.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Will be a constant maintenance pain in the ass unless you live in a cleanroom (you don’t).

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lol.

      this is why i'll never use a custom loop. I'm a lazy homosexual who only cleans his pc once you can scrape the dust and lint off in one piece. and I move my PC around regularly. not a big deal for air cooled or AIO. with a custom loop something like this eventually happens if you don't maintain it.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did watercooled pc fall out of favor?
    They didn't. Just look at PC part picker. Too many people buy AIOs they don't need, because a beefy $40 air cooler is just as thermally efficient for 99% of use cases. Especially gayming when most games barely utilize 4 cores.
    The real question is where did black cases without a transparent side panel go? There's like 3 manufacturers with decent looking cases (with good airflow), and one with a place to mount an optical drive.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I saw a motherboard once with a jumper for setting the system to expect being cryogenically cooled

    I wonder how many people actually do this

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Even the gays that do it, have liquid nitrogen for like an hour or two and after they finish filming its never used again.
      Ideal computer has no moving parts.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Custom loops are both expensive and time consuming to set up, especially if you're going with anything of than soft plastic tubing.
      This in conjunction with AIO's being a good enough stand-in for your average user who might need them is the reason why they've fallen from favor.

      Outside of extreme overclocking, practically no one.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Watercooling was always a meme and components are huge anyway there's no point in trying to reduce size like that. Fans do a well enough job without having to worry about them too much and if one breaks down you just replace it instead of an entire unit.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I had one on my 2014 build, worked good but was a pain to install. No reason to get one really, just more work

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >watercooled pc fall out of favor
    Literally everyone who overclocks needs water cooling.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >only few years ago
    Frick are you talking about child sandybridge was like 15 years ago and you wanted water-cooling for the easy over locking. Hasn't been necessary since then unless you're building ITX.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    tfw my aio finally died after 10 years of usage, i'm switching to a low profile air cooler and reassign that old gtx970 rig into a win7 era machine

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Unnecessary. Air cooling is already extremely effective and has less to go wrong.

    I'd still prefer we went more to full passive setups for everything. Even less to go wrong and quieter.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I'd still prefer we went more to full passive setups for everything.
      won't happen because you either need shit tier laptop hardware that can be passively cooled or basically turn the whole case into a radiator, make it at least big tower size and it will cost ludicrous amount of money, weigh a shitton and likely need side cooling anyway

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Or... Just not push the chips to the point where they need cooling.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I live in a hot humid shithole, switching to AIO reduced my temps by 10+ degrees

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    AIOs became cheaper with close enough performance to a custom loop. The only appeal would be GPU cooling but those have decent stock solutions these days. I don’t subscribe to the notion that all watercooling is in decline, just custom loops.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It didn't. Water cooling is more common now than ever. Hell I bought a water cooler recently.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.quora.com/Can-distilled-water-conduct-electricity

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Last I checked watercooling is dead because overclocking is dead. It's not worth pushing an extra 150-200w on your system if in reality you're only gaining 3-4 fps in your AAA game. What you want to do instead is undervolt because it allows the boost algorithm to automatically clock higher while running cooler and quieter. No point in having watercooling if your CPU is only chugging 85w in games.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >moron uses colouring
    >clogs up the copper heatfins

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because people suddenly realized that water gets warm

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You can easily install a AK600 or NH-15 and not think about your cooler for 6+ years as long as you change the thermal paste. Water cooling and even AIOs have so much bullshit to deal with that I'd rather just buy the old reliable.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm seriously considering building a pc inside a mini fridge.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      condensation kills your pc

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      your minifridge is going to get overwhelmed on modern hardware just sitting at idle and turn into a hot box.
      there's a reason why people don't do this, you're moronic.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it will die either immediately or within a few months due to condensation.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >pump dies
    >cpu burns out before you notice

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      pump is connected to cpu header and if the pump dies then fan shows as 0rpm and your bios throws a cpu fan error preventing boot.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A thermalright peerless assassin cools better than all those tubes. Water cooling is a fricking meme.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    modern CPU's are designed to immediately hit their thermal limit upon utilization and are pretty much non-overclockable
    nowadays the difference between air cooling, AIO's and custom loops are a couple hundred mhz just from additional thermal headroom
    that said watercooling is typically infinitely quieter nowadays due to fan curve typically being based upon coolant temperature

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Every time I see someone using an AIO system for their cpu and I ask "why" no one ever has a good answer.
    Its just "eh I saw it on sale" or something to that effect.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If they got it on sale then that's all the answer you need. AIO and air are close enough in quality for price to be a reason to pick one over the other.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      if your cpu temps are lower it means your fan/pump rpm are lower which means quieter pc. also heat is being soaked properly by the radiator instead of dumping all of it immediat3ly into your case like an air cooler. there's a heat of exchange process and aios are way more efficient at it which benefits your whole system. if my ambient case temperature is lower overall it means my RAM/GPU temps are also lower and I can OC them more for greater FPS.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        All of that is irrelevant
        If you want better gpu temps use a waterblock for the GPU

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          then you need to build your entire system around hosting a reservoir and all that which adds way more cost and complexity than just getting an AIO GPU like a Sapphire Toxic.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        do you not have exhaust fans installed to your case or something?
        the heat doesn't simply sit there on a properly fitted case.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          read Black person:
          >there's a heat of exchange process
          air is much worse at transferring heat than water.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Blog post, because my parents were both heavy smokers, had shedding pets and were dirty as frick.
      My air-cooled heatsink got caked in tar and dust so fricking quick, I had to constantly clean and dust it daily. But it got to a point where no amount of air pressure could clear it out, it wasn't dispersing the heat anymore and could overheat while the PC was idle.
      Instead of pulling the air cooler out and giving it a bath, I got an H60 AIO and I never again had to worry about dust for the next three years until I moved out. Shit was far quieter as well.

      Liquid coolers can handle shittier conditions. I've been back on an air cooler for the past few years (because I haven't installed the new AIO I have sitting by me) and what a surprise, I haven't had to worry about dust for years because I'm not in a dirty environment anymore.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >CPU while idle 60c
    >CPU while gaming 65c

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is my use case, is it bad ?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        60 idle is bad but 65 gaming is good, I honestly expected mine to shoot past 90 but it never did. Are you using AMD as well?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Are you using AMD as well
          5900x, since I've installed a 4090 idle temp worsened as the card is a little below 50c idle and warm up the whole case.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Open loop water cooling was never "in the favor". It was always meant for hobbyists who wanted to push their overclocks to the absolute limit. AIOs are nice looking but they're honestly an overpriced meme product that people get because they're aesthetically pleasing. I honestly doubt many people even OC these days, felt like that culture died out over a decade ago.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      overclocking is dead because hardware is built to push as hard as it can until it thermal throttles now.
      everything is already redlining by default.

      read Black person:
      >there's a heat of exchange process
      air is much worse at transferring heat than water.

      what heat transfer medium do you think your radiator is using to dump heat?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >what heat transfer medium do you think your radiator is using to dump heat?
        weird post as you're implying that you don't comprehend the logic behind heat saturation

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          now show the actual temperatures.
          nobody cares about steady state times except for morons that jack off over benchmarks.

          why are you cherry picking the one that throttled more when the second and third on that chart are also air coolers? you aren't going to miss 40 fricking mhz.

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lot of effort for something you will upgrade in a year because consoom

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Both times I've bought an AIO, the pump started failing after warranty expired
    never buying watercooling again

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I am fully satisfied with with my deepcoll assassin 3. Water cooling is meme, always was, always will be.

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did watercooled pc fall out of favor?
    If things contininue as they are now, it will soon become mandatory.
    Unless you wan to buy a full tower for your mid-level Series 50

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what's the best for a silence pc? air or water aio?
    I have a macho rev b cooler on my CPU and it's so silent all the time. Even when I'm gaming.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Just get a well-ventilated case with fans that make little noise.
      water aio can help but mostly because it helps you set up a good airflow

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      AIO.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Still requires the same number of fans. You just need quiet fans either way.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why some thermal gel or whatever doesn't exist like some substance similar in amount of heat capacity to water but not a liquid?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I imagine the liquid nature of the substance is inherently tied to its ability to transfer heat

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ive got a fully custom build and ive done zero maintenance to it since july. build stuff properly and it wont ever frick up

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >July
      Still got some month left. full cleaning once a year is the minimum

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        just vacuum your damn room homie, if you need to undust your pc every 12 months you must be living in a sandpit

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The price to performance ratio makes no sense.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's for people who has money coming out of their asses yeah

      Said people also buy the most powerful GPUs whenever they come out too

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Will this be enough, bros?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      will it ever be enough?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Well, will it?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      For what?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        For cooling.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i bet you can't wait to play minecraft rtx with 9k textures at silky smooth 22 fps

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's mostly for rendering tbqh.

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    SLI also fell out of favor. I had dual 770s awhile back because I had bought one and then later instead of getting a 970 I thought SLI 770s would be better.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's the microstutter that killed it iirc
      >spend $$$$ for 2 GPUs
      >had to deal with microstutter bullshit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >SLI
      >gold EVGA 770's
      >stack of HDD's that blocks all notable airflow from front intake
      >4 sticks of DDR3
      absolutely based

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        None of this stuff matters except SLI causing microstutter.

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because they look fricking gay

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The hardest buyer's remorse I ever had was when I swapped out my completely silent and highly effective Noctua cooler for a water cooler than cost 5x more. It didn't really keep temps any lower, and while not loud, there was much more noticable noise from the motor and water rushing through the pipes. Sold it a week later on ebay for almost half I paid for it.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >the hot thing
    heh

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I bought a pre built because I'm a moron that knows little about computers, and about a year and a half lster my pc makes this nonstop clicking sound and also gets super hot and I'm 100% it's the AIO dying and getting clogged. Could I just as easily replace it with a fan or am I screwed?

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    literal fricking stock cooler:
    free with your cpu
    just werks
    spray some air on it once a year
    watercooling:
    expensive
    annoying to maintain
    if it fails you're fricked

    >Why did watercooled pc fall out of favor?
    i dunno man, it's a mystery

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >press post
    >post successful
    >refresh page
    >post nowhere to be found
    Why the frick does this keep happening

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You are shadow banned

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That’s highly unlikely

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          So it was my image. Anyway all I wanted to say was Noctua is pure soul. The bunking man’s brand.

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >watercooling your PC will easily increase your budget by a third at least
    >watercooling only makes sense with overclocking in mind
    >OCing your PC might give you a 5% performance increase in games if you're lucky
    I don't know man, it's truly a mistery!

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Manufacturers figured out how to make their own version of the Hyper 212 Evo and even improve on it. For less than $100 you can get an air cooler that'll keep even high end CPUs at reasonable temps so long as you've got good airflow, and the heatsinks themselves have zero maintenance cost since it's literally just a block of metal. Meanwhile water coolers are expensive and full water coolers require a lot of skill to install and maintain. It's no surprise to me that air coolers are becoming more popular.

    I'm rocking a DeepCool AK620 with some Noctua fans and my 13th Gen i9 has never gone past 80 degrees.

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