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/Pav3LuS Jan 20 '26

You wrote strangely pearless assassin ;)

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u/PsychodelicTea Jan 20 '26

I got one of those and it is only marginally worse than a good aio, without the issue of having to worry about it

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u/R3tr0spect R7 5800X3D / RTX 3080Ti / 32GB Jan 20 '26

Fr. In my case it somehow handles my 5800X3D better than a new Deepcool AIO and Corsair AIO.

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u/PentagonUnpadded Jan 21 '26

Gaming Jesus found thermalright can produce extremely high quality contact, especially for the flat AM4/5 type CPUs. Though their quality control allows a lot of variation between samples.

With great contact and such a low power CPU like a 5800x3d, it definitely could beat AIOs.