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Air Cooling vs. All-In-One vs. Custom Loop Water Cooling

ROUND 1

Looks

There are some pretty nifty looking air coolers. Big, bold coolers with hefty heatsinks, oversized fans, and more LEDs than you can shake a SATA cable at. Heck, you can even get air coolers with programmable LEDs that you can sync with other elements of your build, such as case lighting, keyboards, and mice. Air coolers that make a visual statement? Not a problem.

But for sheer visual clout with a scifivibe, nothing competes with a slick custom closed-loop water-cooling installation. What’s not to like about gleaming pipes full of

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