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The only reason I have water cooled my PC is to OC it. This resulted in an aim to make WC under USD 40 with acceptable performance.

The air flow also kept the PCB cool. Hell I could leave the stock HSF if it weren’t for OC.

I was told this by a mechanical engineer that water cooling approach is not very practical. And one of the reasons he mentioned was this issue. I turned deaf and continued. Now I see his words as golden.

What’s done is done. For long term I am thinking either redesigning the WB or maybe leave it as it is. Currently I am using Al block and am going to switch to Cu (with similar design). The reason is to bust the myth of Al dissipation vs Cu heat conductivity while I am at it.

I can make (homebrew) heat sink for Voltage regulators but that was not my point. I thought the purpose of FAN was to cool processor only, which was never the case. A very important point I would say. The current HS on VRM says ‘Zero Noise ASUS DESIGN’.

And to conclude, water cooling can cool a single unit to be cooled. It is useful for serious cooling (like for OC purposes). Air cooling can be active and passive. Furthermore, air cooling is efficient as it as cost effective, lower power consumption easy to implement with low maintenance and if there is ‘oops!’ there is no bye bye.