The AK620 by DeepCool also has a screen that tells CPU Temps and the top and bottom have light strips you can program. It's really great For reference, I put mine on a r7 5800x, overclocked it until it peaked at 85c in stress tests, now it never hits 60 and almost never goes above 50 with maxed setting across a variety of games
You have it backwards, the slower heat soaking of liquid coolers means burst workloads have additional thermal headroom. Once fully heat soaked any cooler-air or liquid-will only perform at its maximum thermal efficiency.
I've got an air cooler for 2 reasons. Price and noise. With my lower power chip, a good air cooler is near inaudible in games. I doubt a pump would be as quiet. But I would consider an AIO for one reason, a vertical GPU. Can't do that with a tower.
Yeah, so I got my Kraken elite (non RGB I hate RGB) just so I can do a verticle mount, my Rx 6750 XT is a chonky ass card if a bracket won't fit i'll just vertically mount it
Yeah, so I got my Kraken elite (non RGB I hate RGB) just so I can do a verticle mount, my Rx 6750 XT is a chonky ass card if a bracket won't fit i'll just vertically mount it
Pumps are generally quieter than air cooler because the liquid inside it takes bit of time to get hot and the large surface area of the radiators quickly cool it down. While air cooler are essentially metals they get hot faster and thus fans kick in faster and louder. That's why you don't get an air cooler for longer sustained cpu temps.
@@srirajdellxps121 Point is my air coolers fans are never loud, they blend into and get subdued by the gpu fans' noise. A pump would not blend the same way due to the different type of noise.
I got a 420mm aio so i can go full send on overclocking my i9 7920x. Its the only way to keep up with newer cpus while keeping my wallet from crying. $115 for a 420mm aio is ridiculous with the only downside being the limited case support for 420mm aios. Even my lancool 3 needed some modifications in order to fit this behemoth.
Technically most good air coolers are just liquid coolers in a way smaller form factor, and without a pump (they instead use liquids with a really low boiling point and its a whole thing that i wont get into) so the only significant difference is that an AIO has way more radiator surface area and has access to cooler air when used as intake.
the arctic liquid freezer 3 series are really cheap (about 70 bucks for the 240mm argb version) and is on par in cooling performance with all the high end aios.
Have an i9 11900k and used a hyper 212 evo v2 and while gaming was sitting at 70 degrees continuous. Just swapped to a corsair h100i elite capellix 240 and I average 45-50 in game. Even the stress test was 25 degrees cooler. Aio if you have the money for sure
I personally like AIO as they are more quieter and the price diff is something that can be managed. I’ve had both cooling system and I much prefer to have AIO over air cooler.
Rocking a sub $20 single fan Thermalright air cooler on my 5800X3D. Keeps it at about 80C, which while not the best temps is far from being dangerous or thermal throttling. I'll swap it out with a dual fan Peerless Assassin or Phantom Spirit at some point but I don't feel the need to hurry.
I've used both in my rigs, honestly I haven't noticed a huge difference between the two for gaming purely aesthic but I do find air coolers are a little more reliable just because there's less moving parts, therefore less to go wrong. But as long as you use a reputable brand of aio you should be ok
Going to rock a solid air cooler so i can spend the money else where, tho i would love the NZXT kraken elite it would look cool with the rest of the build, but thats for later 😊
I prefer Air Coolers cause honestly I'm too leazy to change the liquid from the liquid cooler and maintain the Cooler... With an Air Cooler I can just clean the dust every half to one year and change every 2-3 years the thermal paste and I'm fine... And even for a 7800X3D can be aircooled, that's nice too :3
@@trippinhard250yes, modern GPU will fail within 3-4 years, so if a liquid cooler survive for that long time so it worth every penny, afterall liquid cooler is better and less noicy then Air cooler
What about environmental conditions? If you live in the dry heat desert with lots of dust where your comp can over heat easier would it be better for a liquid cooler? As the air cooler can suck in more dust and cause even more issues.
I use the dark rock pro 5, I prefer it over liquid cooling (I used to have a 240mm AIO). Its near impossible to hear even at a full load with my 7700X.
The rgb version for the liquid freezer 3 looks great. I’m debating if I should replace my liquid freezer 2 280mm with a liquid freezer 3 280mm for the aesthetics.
And if you live in an area where it gets very humid in the summer then I guess you would benefit from an AIO I live in a humid area where The humidity makes the air feel hotter than what it is and my pc runs cooler than my air cooler that I had before
For most gamers you only need an air cooler. If you overclock or do a lot of rendering work and all that jazz, probably better to go high end liquid cooling.
Air coolers are better choice because cost less and have 2°C difrence between a 150€ air and 150€ Liquid and the air cooler was the one with less °C btw
@@SweatyFeetGirl that's just one exaple like mine i don't remember what coolers the guy was testing and you are using 2014 cooler as your exaple what did you expect thats a whole decade old compeared to something that released in october Last year what the Fuck did you expect why are you using decade old air coolers against New Liquid coolers instead try two that are both new💀
@@SweatyFeetGirl you can try googling some comperason of Phantom Spirit evo a 65€ cooler against some Liquid cooler But also keep in mind i said € not $ like you did if you didn't know there is a difrence
An air cooler will be working in 10 years with the only thing being replaced are the fans, an AIO is unlikely to be working after 3 years. Air cooling is straight up more reliable than liquid.
Using 240mm frozen notte from thermalright Quiet asf, pump is not in the plate so its imposible for bubbles to do a thing no matter the position or orientation of your radiator
I have an old liquid cooler, It's the captain ex120, It's probably over 5yrs now already, but I'm still using the am4stock cooler because I'm scared of leakage due to its old age
Air cooler is better because it has less points of failure. An AIO's fluid can gunk up and pumps can fail over time. With air cooler all you have to worry about is replacing a fan, which is wayyy cheaper than buying a new cooler
air cooler seems like it would work fine with what I do at first then I remembered I tend to do 3 hour of FtD SBB building... which is basically the same as making a simulation... uhhh... I think FtD just hates me
@@XxpostyxX i didn't say that is a bad way, see it uses radiators to dissipate heat into air so it's technically an air cooler with extra steps, ofcourse AIOs outperform tower air coolers at some point due to better heat capacity of liquids
In the past 10 years, I have yet to ever see any of my CPUs throttle due to heat. I have no idea why anyone would but an AIO these days. Expensive, they all eventually break or lose effectiveness. Meanwhile, an air cooler lasts essentially forever.