Have you left custom water cooled setups

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Hi
I've been out of the loop for about 6 years due to kids. I need to update my pc...

Well GPU as a.minimum. I'm trying to decide if I can be bothered with a custom water-cooled loop anymore.
It's a faff changing things.

So considering getting an AIO.for a.cpu and leaving the gpu as it comes

Just wondered if you'd done this, or binned off water-cooled pc all.together..any regrets?

What made you make the decision to do it ?

Cheers
 
Plenty of us here explaining why we have moved from custom loops:

Moving away from watercooling!

So I have decided to move away from water cooling and go back to air after 10 years of custom loops. It was a hard decision to make but the maintenance can take a large chunk of your day away which as it currently stands, I don't have. With me planning to upgrade to 15th gen intel shortly after...
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Nope. I enjoy it.

With modern coolant maintenance intervals are long and hardware advancemens tare so incremental these days I rarely have to adjust the loop or move about hardware.

The main frustration is parts availability now though!
 
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Same. I haven;t upgraded my rig since the early days of covid and it's probably in need of a drain down and clean. I've been thinking about replacing the GPU (2080 ti) but, aside from probably needing to upgrade the PSU as well, the lack of factory fitted GPU blocks on 9070xt's is making me hold back. I'm not sure if there ever will be a 9080XT model, or whether the 9070XT's NEED a water block - that's irrelevant for me. It's about the noise and aesthetics.

Seeing the PRICE of 3rd party blocks - EK's seem to have gradually risen from £100 to over £200 per block when I've looked, which is obscene.
 
Yea this is the quandary I have. I do enjoy it, but its time consuming.

I can't see the inside of the case at the moment (corsair 900d) as the window sits against the side of the desk. So I'd.need to change things around to be able.to see inside to a new case (lack of room in the room prohibits the case going elsewhere)

But really all I'd need is a gpu and cpu block and new coolent. Although the pumps are over 10 years old and could probably do with being replaced

I guess im reluctant to move to something which could be inferior, plus a silent pc is nice.

Thansk for your views
 
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