Yeah one of my mates tells me watercooling is safe if done properly, with almost no chance of a leak or pump failure. I just don't like the fact that if something does go wrong, the chance of everything getting bricked is very high. Especially in a case like mine or yours with the PSU at the bottom, a leak would almost certainly take out the entire system, and if the pump failed when you weren't around I'd hate to see the temps things would get up to.
Watercooled systems really do look the part, and have far superior cooling ability than air, but it still concerns me, a lot. I am going to look into it more as I think I need to better educate myself about it before deciding, but from what i know, the tubes are about 2mm thick, you can get high quality clamps, the pressure in the system is pretty low, and you can get good quality pumps & blocks etc so I can see if done properly it could be safe, but I think it would be hard for me to feel comfortable using it. I'd probably spend minutes checking for leaks before each time I powered on, and every 10 minutes I was using the system
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