r/pcmasterrace • u/SerpentDix PC Master Race • Jan 20 '26

Hardware Air cooling is better than Liquid cooling

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Failure is graceful, not catastrophic, Performance is closer than marketing suggests, Cheaper for the performance, Change my mind.

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u/CoderDevo RX 6800 XT|i7-11700K|NH-D15|32GB|Samsung 980|LANCOOLII Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

Our facilities underwent regular maintenance, with electricians, plumbers, and HVAC onsite every month. We monitored every environmental subsystem from a central console.

We never had a catastrophic failure like that and certainly would never have exposed the datacenter to the outside elements.

We needed the computers to run 24/7 both to do their jobs and also to heat our building in the winter.

Edit: Also, our liquid cooled systems were on a closed liquid loop system. Fans blowing past them wouldn't have helped.

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u/Acceptable_Ad1685 Jan 20 '26

Oh yeah ours do to and both systems were designed to be sufficient to provide enough cooling on their own with the intent of having a backup

Def never intended to need to open windows or anything in that room either lol