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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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 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
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 😊
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
@@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
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
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
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.
Low maintenance and less points of failure. As well if you're running a fairly average CPU like a Ryzen 7600 or Intel 13400 a good air cooler will cool them no problem while being very quiet and cheaper than a liquid cooler. I'd only consider a liquid cooler if you're trying to tame a beast like the last few Intel 900s. Even then if you're just gaming get a 7800X3D and then you can still use a air cooler so liquid coolers are very niche.
@@SweatyFeetGirl Yeah it's fairly easy to cool it it's only 120w max TDP but more realistically it's only up to 85w max while actually in use in most applications. Most mid to large sized air coolers have no problem with it.
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
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
Also liquid is very good for sleepers if you don't have enough space in those smaller 90s cases
How. Liquid coolers have big ass radiators. Why is this stupid comment getting likes?
Hmm, you give me an idea
if you can afford a liquid cooler you can also afford a new case.
That's not what sleeper pcs are about
@@notfajnyyy but that wont be a sleeper PC then
Stock cooler 🗿
Cringe
so sigma
@@King96963 how the fuck is that cringe
Because stock coolers aren't really that good@@signalcoyote6802
@SordidusFellatio Lmao
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.
Yes
nope
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
I've got a Deep Cool AK400 Zero Dark Plus on my R7 7700. It stays below 80° even at 5.1Ghz all core for minutes at a time.
Did u use the same thermal paste that comes with it?
I’ve got that cooler too and a 7800X3D and my max temp is 79
I had the same cpu but i just play elden ring. Im planning to buy the ak500s white with screen too. Is it good too??
@@carlzxceeds yep 3°-5° difference so as long as u don't care about it, it's perfect
I got air cooler instead aio for easier maintenance, less moving part the only part that probably malfunction is the fan easier to replace
Rocking a liquid cooler. I agree its for the aesthetics.
This or that, cooler addition, for specific processors series? lets gooooo!
The pipes in a water cooler also look really cool and its quieter
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.
It depends… I like how liquid coolers looks. But i prefer air cooling. And love my Dark Rock Pro 4 in my stealth build 🥰
It also depends on the type of whether you live in, for me, it's almost all year so hot, so liquid cooler seems like the best option
Another factor to consider is noise while overclocking, it's exactly why I got a liquid cooler because my deepcool gammaxx was annoying
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.
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
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.
Love the Thermalright Frozen Warframe
Using the Strix Ryujin Liquid cooler atm
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.
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.
Liquid cooler. I'm using the Artic Freeze 3 280mm aio. Super easy to install.
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.
@@badmoose01 That's the model I have in white. It really looks good!
@@EazyRanger325 cool. My current cpu cooler performs perfectly fine but the pump block is a little fugly and the new pump looks so clean.
I got a table fan to cool my non-portable laptop. Very cheap and i highly recommended it. I got an fps boost with that. 👍
Liquid cooler for sure
u gotta maintain it and liquid cooler fail after 5 - 7 years
Heck no. Air cooling all the way.
@@idrinkalmondmilk29185-7 years is pretty long
@@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
But personally I love Air Cooler
I bought a thermalright peerless assassin for 7500f and I'm very satisfied with its performance
I have a Thermalright Assasin, best air cooler ever
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 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
Forgot about noise. Most air coolers even the best ones will normally be noisier at full load every time.There is plenty of reviews that prove this.
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 😊
Air cooler are more authentically pleas3 in some cases. But in fish tank cases they don't look good
I got a 240 AIO from ID and it's amazing and I paid 60 bucks. I like it because it opens up the case while my tower took away from my setup.
I got AK400 Digital because it's one of the best cheap air coolers and I love the led screen
My triple rad was definatly not chosen for aesthetics. 5900x toasties.
Another thing, as far as i saw, Liquid cooling is better for Mini-itx builds, where you can't fit a big air cooler.
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.
maybe 15 years ago , but nowadays liquid coolers are fine. arctic gives 6 years of warranty on their liquid coolers
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.
Im using default intel air cooler for 12+ years and still working fine!
Deepcool's AG digital and AK digital series:
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.
Air cooler is best when you've got space in your case if not Aios are better 😊
Air cooler so much more reliable, went through 3 nzxt aio all eventually ended up failing not going back.
Thermalright is the GOAATTTTT the GOOOATTTT
I very much prefer the stock cooler design of am4 than my current snowman cooler. Unfortunately it burns my r5 5600 so I had to replace it.
Air Cooler i guess.
Is that DaVinci Resolve 18?
thanks for informing me about something i didnt know
"if you got an air cooler or liquid cooler"
"stock cooler" 👁️👄👁️
Some air coolers have LCD screens like some coolers from deepcool
Only 1 temp... hope in the future they improve it with real screen that can display vid, gif, temp like aio
Deep cool aio ls720 has tempture screen it’s 360mm really great quality has a refill tube in tests it cools as well as corsairs 200+ aios all for 130
I have got the model that in your hand Noctua NH D15 for my 5900x
Works great for all kinds of exporting and other stuff
Got the noctuan NH-d15 so probably one of the best air cooler on the market
If you are going to use 13th or 14th i9 K model always use high end AIO
I have an air cooler for my i9 14900kf
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
I was so excited to use a thermalright peerless assassin but my case just had to be 4mm too small so now I have an AIO 😅
(budget, lower midrange and midrange) air
(Upper midrange and high end) Liquid cooler
liquid coolers look sick
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
not true. noctua NHD-15 is 120$ and performs 10-12°C hotter under load than arctic liquid freezer III for 60$
@@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
I been using a deepcool le720 ( the price makes sense in my country )
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 have a 5600 so that random $19 air cooler i got on amazon is doing great for me.
I got the Deepcool AK 500s Digital with a screen with my CPU and GPU temps 80 bucks HIGHLY RECOMMEND any Deepcool Digital
After the mess my first liquid cooler left after a pump failure, I'm sticking to air coolers.
i just use amds stock cooler since my builds pretty budget / low end
I got an air cooler, a ak400 digital, I wanted to monitor temps but I didn't want to pay £150 and it keeps my ryzen 5 5600 under 70c on cinebench.
does anyone here know about the air vent 3d print pc case? water cooling isn’t better its just easier to setup in way thats effective than air cooling
I went water cooling to help keep the temp down in my hole room and air cool got my room so hot
I’ve got an NH D15 on a ryzen 5600x and yes , I have been threatened with violence for using that cooler on that processor .
Remember guys liquid coolers are just glorified air coolers ;)
Not really, went from hitting 80c to 45c after switching to an aio
@@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
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
AIO cus it doubles as exhaust fans
Im literally installing my thermalright phantom spirit as im watching this short lol 😅
Liquid cooler looks way better and is better at cooling, if you dont use a 120mm AIO
I choose both
I’m still using the stock wraith prism that came with my 3700x but I’m planning to pop in a 5700x3d and may get a aio then
The stock cooler from my R5 7600 is more than sufficient.
High end Air cooler , I dont have insurance for water damage
The cpu s and graphics cards behind him 😳🥹
What’s the difference between Nzxt kraken 240 and Nzxt kraken elite 240
Air cooler is easier to maintain and last longer right?
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
I have a phantom spirit 120 on my ryzen 7 7700x, and it runs overheating at 95 degrees thermal throttling below the max boost…
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.
I don’t trust liquid coolers. I spent all this money and no way is liquid ruining that lol. Air cooler does the job just as well 👍🏽
What about game dev?
Got an air cooler. Last pc died brace my AIO leaked. Not risking it ever again. Also it’s a lot quieter.
Peerless assassin rated for 265 tdp is insane. Keeps my 12900k cool as 55* while gaming ez.
I got an aio for aesthetics
Changing likes from 799 to 800: I have the power
also, liquid cooler has shorter lifespan than air cooler
Air coolers all day. I don't have to worry about pump noise, or the AIO leaking, or the pump dying, or the AIO getting clogged.
Low maintenance and less points of failure. As well if you're running a fairly average CPU like a Ryzen 7600 or Intel 13400 a good air cooler will cool them no problem while being very quiet and cheaper than a liquid cooler. I'd only consider a liquid cooler if you're trying to tame a beast like the last few Intel 900s. Even then if you're just gaming get a 7800X3D and then you can still use a air cooler so liquid coolers are very niche.
7800x3d and air cooler yikes.
@@SweatyFeetGirl Yeah it's fairly easy to cool it it's only 120w max TDP but more realistically it's only up to 85w max while actually in use in most applications. Most mid to large sized air coolers have no problem with it.
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
been an air guy my whole life since my last NZXT krakens water cooling system got like jammed or logged or something and my cpu literally burnt
Imagine spending almost 50% of the cost just for a Liquid Cooler but still confused about why it doesn't have an effect on game performance.😅
arctic liquid freezer 3 240mm is 60$ and performs 10°C cooler than noctua nhd15 air cooler for 120$
Liquid cooler is such a nightmare to maintain tho' for that reason alone I use air cooler
lol, theres 0 maintenance on AIOs.
I got a liquid cooler just because just telling people you cool your pc with liquid sounds cooler, also I do think it looks better too
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
Meh even with sustained loads it doesn't really matter
Me with a stock cooler😂
Running liquid because R7 7700x runs hot 🥵
Yeah I bet liquid coolers don’t make the room an unbearable temperature though
Where do you think the heat will go?