Do you air, passive, or water cool your rig?

[compl3x]

I got the idea for this thread from here.

 

I am just wondering what kind of cooling people employ for their systems and what their preferences are and why.

[Luc2k]

I'm stock air cooling on the CPU, set to minimum level, because I rely on 4 140mm case fans for the heavy lifting (2 permanently active on lower front/back and 2 on floor/roof that are turned on when needed - gaming and summer). I'll probably have too beef it up this year since the new 390's don't run below 65°C (can probably tweak that) and it's idling around 52-56. The reason I favour air is bang for buck.

 

I've had 2 passively cooled GPU's a couple years back and it was a quick way to warm-up a room.

[wiretap]

Custom water cooled for my gaming PC. Fan/heatsink cooled for my file server and HTPC's. Passive cooling for my pfSense firewall mini-ITX box.

[Circaflex]

water(gpu) + phase change(cpu)

[+Fahim S. MVC]

Completely passively cooled i5 Haswell NUC here.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

Desktop has a Corsair AIO cooler.

The other computers have fans/heatsinks.  Two of them have the OEM cooler (AMD on my Freenas and Intel on my secondary HTPC).  Primary HTPC has a Scythe low profile cooler that is really quiet

 

[Noir Angel]

I use air cooling for my CPU, I have a Dark Rock BeQuiet aftermarket cooler. I run my i7-2700k at 4.8 GHZ at 1.4v and it runs about 65c under load.

[tsupersonic]

Air cool - i5 4670 at stock speeds with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. Works well enough, and temps stay cool.

[blank]

I just use old fans and a coating of dust. seems to work good.

 

 

water cooled always seemed like it'd be messy, so i've never even tried it.