how safe/reliable is watercooling these days?
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to be honest the only reason you could loose your machine to watercooling is by doing a shoddy job setting it up right, skimping on needed steps like testing for leaks, using hose clips, etc. do all of those things and watercooling is as safe as breathing. 
It's as safe as the Titanic.
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to be honest the only reason you could loose your machine to watercooling is by doing a shoddy job setting it up right, skimping on needed steps like testing for leaks, using hose clips, etc. do all of those things and watercooling is as safe as breathing.
i have never done any WC, just been looking at the WC pic thread and im not to sure i want all the mess now lol!
Gashman summed it up well. Having just built my first loop i researched like crazy, bought decent components and built it slowly checking everything at least twice. I don't think i'll go back to air, love the silence and excellent cooling it offers.
Hi again, just built my 1st custom H2o, as peeps say do abit reading up on it, take your time. You'll get plenty of of help here of the more experienced folk, lol the silence will drive you crazy. l thought it would be hard to do it,s not, l bit the bullit with all the hot weather we had. Once done no more worries about the hot summer weather, no need to turn your overclock down, that's gotta be good.
Just a couple of thing's, l used distilled water for the last couple of rinse's to clean my compoment's out and a good piece of advice l got was measure twice before you cut your tubing. Come on you know you want to do it!!!!
Just a couple of thing's, l used distilled water for the last couple of rinse's to clean my compoment's out and a good piece of advice l got was measure twice before you cut your tubing. Come on you know you want to do it!!!!
if your mate lost a computer to watercooling then he was doing it wrong.
it hasnt changed a great deal, if anything the parts have just been manufacturered better.
same rules apply to watercooling as they ever did.
* read everything you can and do plenty of research until you are 100% sure on components and compatibility.
* when building your first loop, arange it outside the case away from hardware until you are comfortable with how it works.
* study all the instruction manuals properly until you know what each component does.
* leak test the system for 24 hours
it hasnt changed a great deal, if anything the parts have just been manufacturered better.
same rules apply to watercooling as they ever did.
* read everything you can and do plenty of research until you are 100% sure on components and compatibility.
* when building your first loop, arange it outside the case away from hardware until you are comfortable with how it works.
* study all the instruction manuals properly until you know what each component does.
* leak test the system for 24 hours
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to be honest the only reason you could loose your machine to watercooling is by doing a shoddy job setting it up right, skimping on needed steps like testing for leaks, using hose clips, etc. do all of those things and watercooling is as safe as breathing.
Pretty much this to be honest. Do your research properly, pick your components carefully and take your time putting it together and test the loop outside the case and very little can go wrong. When i first got my WC components i read all the reviews i could find and read post's on several forums. Those components lasted me 4.5 years before i decided to upgrade anything. Last year i upgraded the cpu block, Nb block (cost me £1 on the bay) and the radiator and expect those to last me a similar length of time. I am still using the original pump, reservoir and GPU block which are all well over 5 years old now. I have a universal GPU block so i don't need to buy a new block everytime i change the card and this block has been on 5 different cards now. In all that time i have never had a leak.
Watercooling is the same as anything do your homework, take your time and test at every stage do that and your highly unlikely to have any major problems. Unlike most on here i used to watercool but don't anymore because of cost and having a family these days i struggle to snaffle enough cash away for a good upgrade every three years or so 
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When you're building your system make plenty of time to do the loop. Even the best on here probably take a couple of days to complete their loops (inc testing) just to be sure.
Also am sure that everyone who watercools has had at least 1 nightmare experience of something gone severely wrong and killing something in their system.
Also am sure that everyone who watercools has had at least 1 nightmare experience of something gone severely wrong and killing something in their system.
i think i would cry if that happend lol
really? hmm didnt know that. i will try WC but not on my next build ill test it out on an older machine just incase my DIY is a bodge lol