Air Cooler vs AIO Liquid Cooler - 240mm AIO vs Dark Rock Pro 4

I prefer the air cooler. Safety and reliability, less cost all trump a few degrees in a stress test to the good.

AMD AM5 CPU whit a X eg 7700x, 7900x etc is not so good test CPU coz where are designed to run at a certin temprature at full load, if you add more cooling the CPU just increse the watts upp to the hard limit..

Peerless assassin is 33 bucks your average aio peice is 60 the diffderence is roughly 4c choose accordingly.

CPU stats should def be included because of throttling, that's how you could see slightly lower temps alongside reduced performance. The CPU is a higher temp because it's more active which would imply better performance. The fact it's throttling more and achieving a lower temp with a certain cooler doesn't necessarily mean the cooler is performing better but possibly that the CPU is performing worse.

Ambient room temp and humidity are also directly proportional to how efficient a cooler can be.

AIO Liquid Cooler is the best i have 67.99 aio 360mm my 13600k runs 26c on ide 34c gameing my old Air Cooler my 13600k 44 ide over 50c gameing

Unless your doing some heavy overclocking, air coolers are by far the better way to go....

Air Coolers are great. No as pretty, most of the time, but reliable

I currently have a Kraken Elite 280mm AIO installed and it runs great however I may swap to a TR Peerless Assassin SE cause of the easier mountability than the AIO as the radiator and fans are front mounted externally on my case which isn’t a good look

I went back to air cooler. I had 2 AIO died on me. Plus , you dont need water to play ANY games.

Noctua NH D-15 on my rigs

My aio is quieter not noisy and have Corsair iCUE H150i Elite LCD XT and I not even heard it

THE AIR COOLER GET CLOT WITH DUST SO THEY PERFORMEST GOES DOWN HILL STARTING DAY ONE YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT APART AND CLEAN AND TAKE ALL THAT DUST THAT CLOTING THE FINS ONCE A YEAR , THE LARGE ONES SCREW THE FLOW OF WHAT GOING ON INSIDE YOUR CASE , BETTER WITH WATER COLOR DOES NOT ATTRACT DUST ON YOUR MB AND THE AIR FLOW GOES WHERE IS SUPPOSE TO

Air always better dark rock 4 pro goat

What accent is that???

After using the NH D15 in the Fractal torrent, iv gone Air cooling all the way. Using 7900X currently

Diese Aussprache muß man erst einmal hinbekommen. Hat was von Comedy

Interesting review and comparison.

Problem with air cooler i had, i was using one for good long time, after roughly every 2-3 years it would break my processor thanks to gravity. I decided to go with AIO just so it wont happen again.

I run the glacier one 280 in front, pump at 50% and it's almost inaudible. Same with the fans, running low curve with an undervolt of -175mV and 140mm fans in top. Having the AIO in front will yield way better temps based on butwits tests and my own included. As you barely heat the gpu, and the cpu gets fresh air. Add a contact plate to LGA 1700 and you'll have a good time. Got a 13600K at 59-65c under full load, 30 minutes at a this temp, and regular runs hit 23944 r23 score. Pretty pleased with that. This is before adding contact frame, which arrives in a few days.

my cpu has tempts of 90 with a aio i think my cooler is failing ...

I use both depending on the size of the case. I've never had an AIO outlast an air cooler.

Great video, I searched all reddit to find if I could use the ryzen 7900x with that ventirad 😱

If you have pets or are prone to get lots of dust in your PC the AIO’s radiator will also get mucked up with very hard to clean dust and dirt —essentially blocking all airflow out from the PC.

I don’t get why people complain on GPU and mobo prices and still buys unnecessary AIO’s.

Better buy a good air cooler (if you don’t OC —you could just get an Evo 212), add some extra fans to the chassi, take some time to wrap up all cables nicely to increase air flow inside.
Finding ways to keep the GPU temp down will always be a gamers main concern.

Also, vacuum clean your room once every week 😉

Your way of speak is like Greta Thunberg :D

Yeah, I have seen where a company made the Liquid but did not include the fans made no sense at all...smh!

After more than a decade and 2 failed AIO's (Both failed within 2 yrs of use), it's only air cooler for me now. Air coolers have less points of failure; essentially just the fans, and I have case fans that are going 10+ yrs. Price, performance, and longevity, a good air cooler is my choice. Currently using the Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Black.

Consider swapping out the front fan with one that has a higher RPM to observe a 2-degree temperature decrease, 2000 rpm to 2500 rpm. Additionally, you can eliminate the 135mm middle fan and the rubber dampeners and replace it with a 120mm fan that has a higher RPM to achieve an additional 1.5-degree reduction thats 3 to 3.5C drop right there given it would be noisy. Original fans are silent but don't perform as well.

@TechteamGB Been wanting to buy the Dark Rock Pro 4 but till i upgrade my CPU, already had the AIO Leak in mind don't think i'd ever buy one for the fear of Leaks... also don't mind me asking the Hieght of UR Ram Sticks ? Thank you for sharing this video...

The reason is the aircooler is more stable, when the AIO'd Cpu hits high temperature, it takes more time to cool, more time "locked".

My processor is so hot that it seems closer to reaching critical temperature than allowing me peaceful gaming. Even the air is surprised by its heat, and the AIO seems to have returned from a beach vacation! 🌡☀ Maybe it's worth considering running the refrigerator as my new cooling solution?" ❄😅

I prefer air cooling, got 2 nhd15, 2 nhd12 and a few other smaller air coolers, got an Arctic liquid freezer 420 aio sitting in my closet, was on sale open box for 100$ so couldn't pass that deal, might use it some day.

all that weight verticaly hanging out on the motherboard from the cooler ...is quite alot.

Good video on the PROs and CONs of air vs liquid.

Me trying to figureout about AIo and Air Cooler because I can't decide which one to get.

The Computer I am building is for Gaming, Video Editing, and Digital Art.

I prefer air cooler nowaday because of less risk and less expansive with relatively same performance, although I've ran the same AIO for 8 years before without any problem I figured it wasn't really worth it because I didn't overclock the CPU and while gaming the GPU temp was more important than CPU temp.

the dark rock 4 pro has slow fans, there are better aircoolers like the noctua d15 wich performs wayy better and it still costs less than an aio

well done TY

Been running the Dark Rock Pro 4 for 3 years now, has been great and no dramas with my OC'd CPU (3.8ghz to 5.1ghz). Wanted to give my PC a bit of a birthday, so just purchased the Deepcool Assassin 4 and installed it 2 days ago and wow! In game CPU temps have dropped around 7-10 degrees which is awesome. It's also super quiet. 90% of my friends went to AIO's years ago and made fun of me as I stayed on air. We all have high end builds. Now nearly all of them have come back to air after pump failures, leaks, noise, etc etc. They said I was right all along 😅

Oh you’re supposed to turn your pc case, not your head. 😂

I am just wondering what if you have a hot environment? What is your ambient temp when making the test. I live in the Philippines by the way.

People also forget that RGB (specially a lot) consumes power and it can make upto 4/5W at the wall. Electricity being so expensive in Europe I switched off all my RGB every penny/eurocent helps.

This is the exact video I needed to switch back to air cooling ... super unhappy with my CORSAIR Hydro Series H115i . I bought this cooler in 2016 and now my idle temps are 40-50C. This thing goes into jet engine mode (80C+) when I load up counter strike 2 beta.

It's no logic in the cinebench score.
How optimized is the AIO CPU water block? Does it cool all the cores equal? How cool is the motherboard chipset? I'm using a kraken in the same way and sometimes the performance is not logical since the motherboard becomes hot.

Why did you say in the conclusion the air cooled version might struggle to keep up? All your tests showed it outperformed. Would it be hotter? Sure, but performance wise it was better

Don't forget, if you install a Dark Rock on your CPU, you can't move or ship it without uninstalling it, or it'll rip your mainboard off its stays, or it even rips the mainboard stays off the case.

An AIO water cooler is much less likely to mess up your system

Have to disagree / have some of my own opinions on some of your points. 1. air cooler heavy? thats what the spreader on the back of the MB is for along with big bolts. much better than the crappy super heavy gfx cards we have now hanging off a pci-e lane and a couple of screws on the other end (gigabyte anyone?). Also AIO can be kinda heavy. Just not putting all the wait on the cpu bracket. Also super Heavy massive GFX cars anyone? But yeah even then my 4x HDD's and 2s sdds i have in my old system wayed more than the air D14 cooler. 2. the MB power supply prob had no air flow over them so they ran hotter with the AIO and hence needed more power to run at a similar if slower speed. 3. you did not really seem to test the AOI cooler for that long. 30mins is almost long enough for the water to just about get up to temp. but prolonged testing (many hours) the water will be hotter and not release as much heat as it did. So over time it would lose performance. Maybe you did test this but from my previous usage of AOI's is you need to test them for longer to see the correct results. I used to have AOI's on my old system, a 3770K @4.9ghz. AIO's are grate for fitting in some good cooling into small places as well. But i had my first pump fail about 2 years in. luckily cpu was all good even though it got super hot it throttled very well and survived (it was on a 3D render at the time). I got another bigger AIO this time and all was good again for another 2 years. Then the pump failed. Went back to a big ass air cooler, D14. And now on my new system i have a DR4 running on a 5800x and it can hit 5ghz on one to two cores, lol. Most of the time its just 4.9ghz most cores and 4.8ghz on all cores when rendering. Pritty good but still nothing like the old cpus for overclocking. That 3770k was ment to be 3.5ghz but ran at 4.9ghz and then 4.7 on air rendering 3d animations and video for nearly 7 years straight. Never have had any issues since with ether (other than sata on the old system). It might be about 200mhz slower on the old cpu compared to the AIO but no issues with a pump fail. And it didnt really change render times much at all. I might have to change some fans sometime but ive never had to so far (the AIO fans are still running, lol). Even then for one to just die on me without making some horrible noises is unlikely. lol. Cheers

I would love to see this review but with an Artic Freeze II 120.

AMD recently dropped the "280" from their recommendation of a liquid cooler in the official Ryzen 9 spec sheet. This video is a good case for why they shouldn't have.