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Originally Posted by pHaestus
Does anyone here put water cooling in their parents' PCs (iif they build them) or in their mission critical work machine (maybe Bill does)? Until that day comes I see water cooling as still niche personally
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Hmmm, my mission critical work machine is water-cooled. The biggest issue I found was what pump to trust to do the job. Ultimately it came down to the MCP600. It doesn't leak. It's quiet and reliable. The system could handle the radiator fan failing, but it couldn't handle the pump failing (short of then relying for the motherboard shutting the CPU down due to thermal overload).
Pumps, being mechanical items that drive the whole water-cooling loop, is something that absolutely, utterly, cannot have sacrifices in quality, but that's something that we see all the time with these budget kits.
I would not hesitate to setup a water-cooling loop in my parent's PC if they were willing to pay for the quality parts that I would insist go into it.
Aluminium with copper is another of my pet hates.
So are clear plastics. I'll never make blocks with clear plastics again. They are all just too brittle.