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China has made AIO air coolers cheaper and more reliable. They are ๐Ÿ˜ beautiful and really want one with that infinity mirror but I am terrified of one leaking and destroying my entire computer.

I'm struggling to pick an AIO water cooler or a gigantic air cooler

(Random air cooler pictured above)

Is water-cooling safe? Or is it bourgeoise decadence?

scared ^___^

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[โ€“] BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I just really don't like them. The performance gain isn't worth the maintenance and fear of waterboarding my pc.

I like good ole fashion cheapo fans. And a lot of em.

If my computer was supposed to have water in it, it would have come with scuba gear

[โ€“] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

can't you still get basically the same performance with a big radiator and fans? I was pretty sure the appeal of liquid cooling was still form factor/aesthetics, not that it's actually better

[โ€“] grazing7264@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

I think the 2 coolers in the pictures actually perform exactly the same, it's just massive and would block RGB RAM if you have it lol

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