Have you left custom water cooled setups

[cjgardens]

I've sorted of given up with water cooling. But when I look over at my new pc compared to my last one. It looks very sad hahaha.

I'll donut again one day

 

[Grim5]

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

Yes I moved away, only for one reason - there is no performance benefit. If water cooling made my CPU and GPU run 10 or 20% faster than air cooling I'd be happy, but those days are gone and water cooling has no performance benefit anymore

 

[jabski]

Yes I moved away, only for one reason - there is no performance benefit. If water cooling made my CPU and GPU run 10 or 20% faster than air cooling I'd be happy, but those days are gone and water cooling has no performance benefit anymore

pretty much the same for me. Also the prices started to get a bit out of hand too

 

[robj20]

Yep, long time ago.
It's boring now you can buy everything off the shelf, and no performance gains anymore.

 

[Bubo]

I'll very probably continue to run with custom cooling for the cpu, since I have all the gear and going to an AIO would be daft. For me you'd still want the heat the cpu generates getting out of the case as directly as possible, so the mosfets/ chipset/etc sinks don't have a head start with whatever case air cooling there is, so an AIO or custom water for the cpu. But there is very little point with GPUs nowadays. My next GPU upgrade will likely be a 6090, so it will all boil down to what the acceptable noise to performance ratio will be.