Other than a component becoming obsolete the most common failure of PC's are always heat related. More so now than anytime in the past. I don't see in the future anyway around liquid cooled towers. While still cutting edge and expensive my gut is telling me if I want more than 5 years out of a rig liquid is the way to go. Fans are still fans but the sole reliance on them just will not work in my opinion with current components. It may take less than 10 seconds of fan failure before you burn these new CPU's out.
You could run a lot of fans with some towers that run like 6 but the noise index goes way up as well as the power requirements which adds more heat.
The idea I think is to run a combination of fans and liquid so you have good heat management and if something goes wrong it doesn't immediately burn something out. At the very least you have time to react.
You could run a lot of fans with some towers that run like 6 but the noise index goes way up as well as the power requirements which adds more heat.
The idea I think is to run a combination of fans and liquid so you have good heat management and if something goes wrong it doesn't immediately burn something out. At the very least you have time to react.