Quote Originally Posted by defect9 View Post
I don't know if it's just a myth or me, but for about the first year of my getting into watercooling I believed that watercooling would dump way less heat into the room because the cpu temps were lower.

if it is less, it's not much.
That doesn't make any sense at all. Your cpu no matter how you cool it produces a fixed amount of heat. If you cool it with aircooling your room will heat up slower because the heat will be transferred to the room less efficiently. If you cool your system with water the room will heat up faster but to the same eventual temperature because the cooling system you have is more efficient.

If anything under most circumstances your room will get hotter will watercooling because most people will up their overclock and voltage making the cpu produce more heat, that heat has to go somewhere ... the fans blow it into the room ... blowing the heat into the room.

It's like naekuh said, you can't trick physics.