Water cooling systems are generally oblivious to both of these issues since thermal capacity is linked directly to the volume of water in the system, and not the air. Air coolers are also sensitive to the size of the enclosure since cooling capacity is directly linked to the volume of air within the case and the flow rate of air through the case. Air coolers depends heavily on existing airflow within the case and a poorly cooled case can cripple even the best of air coolers. While the performance gap between high-end air coolers and water cooling has closed somewhat, water cooling remains significantly more flexible and scalable. If the two primary advantages watercooling had over air cooling solutions are seemingly a thing of the past, why would anyone still get water cooling? The current crop of top-end super air coolers compete very well with many watercooling systems in terms of both performance and noise, although not necessarily at the same time and not with the same air cooling product. With the introduction of fluid-filled heat-pipe technology to computer heatsinks, both of these reasons for getting watercooling have been eroded by newer, more efficient heatsink designs.
Another popular reason to get watercooling, especially in earlier times when air coolers used loud 80mm high-RPM fans, was to build a quiet system that still maintained decent cooling performance.
In the recent past, watercooling had long been considered an enthusiast solution, superior to air cooling, for obtaining optimal cooling performance. All with a very quiet 800 RPM fan that was barely audible. It easily outperformed all stock cooling solutions and kept pace with a high-end, heat-pipe equipped air cooler with an extremely powerful (and loud) fan. Overall, we are very pleased with the LCLC's performance. If the LCLC was equipped with a thermally controlled fan connected to the motherboard, which could increase its speed when the system is loaded, the LCLC would have performed better. However, this was largely because the stock cooler is thermally controlled by the graphics card and the fan significantly increases in speed while the graphics card was under load, therefore increasing in noise level as well as cooling capability. While under load, the LCLC performed on-par with the stock cooler. In the case of both the GPU and graphics memory, the LCLC was able to significantly outperform the stock cooler while the graphics card was idle. Graphics cooling performance was also good. Also note, that had we used a more powerful fan, the LCLC's performance would have been even better. This is an extremely impressive result that shows how efficient water cooling is. With an 800 RPM Scythe S-FLEX installed on the heat exchanger, it was able to keep pace with the Silverstone NT-06 using a 2640 RPM screamer. The LCLC outperformed the Intel stock cooler by a significant margin both while the CPU was idle and during the Everest stress test. 5820K, if I ever buy you a new board, it'll be a good one.Performance Summary: The LCLC performed very well in all of our thermal tests. Asus X99-A motherboard, April 2016 - October 2018, may you rest in peace.
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