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so for those of you who build personal computers a question probably arises around the time you decide to purchase your CPU should I air-cool it or water cool it now both of these have their own respective advantages and disadvantages but I'm not going to bother listing those in this video because you probably already are aware of most of them and I frankly I'm not willing to argue for either side in this case or act like I'm in the middle I only care about price to performance in this video and that is what we are going to investigate so our test bench is pretty much the same as has always been we have an i5 4690k paired with an asrock z97 extreme for LGA 1150 motherboard and eight gigabytes in to four gigabyte variants of kingston hyperx ddr3 clock in 1866 megahertz now long have you been asking me why I keep choosing has low base CPU storing these tests skylake is out obviously and you guys keep telling me all your skylake builds those are better you know they're better than as well yeah they're better by a little bit you guys put too much emphasis on ddr4 and whatnot there really is not much of a difference at all in terms of your performance increase with ddr4 versus ddr3 especially in gaming however the price to performance ratio with has low based CPUs at this point in my personal opinion is much better than those from the skylake counterpart didn't get the proper to talk about price performance because this is a video about price to performance and for my viewers who are not in the United States including those of you in Germany England Australia parts of Asia all of you who I appreciate very much have told me that skylake is still very expensive where you live and then as well is just a more affordable option so as well it is sorry eventually we'll move this guy like permanently but for now I'm going to intermingle between the two at 6600 K however is on the way it should be here by Thursday so expect a build featuring that processor so we perform three instances of the exact same test only changing the cooler in all three scenarios the first cool that we used was a stock into a cooler that was included with the 4690k as this cooler was included with the CPU purchase we regarded the cooler is free and used it as our baseline to compare our other two coolers with speaking of which our second cooler is the cooler master hyper t4 which cost us $25 and our third all-in-one water cooler was the corsair h 90 which cost us $60 I have links to both of those coolers in the description below I believe that the H 90 cooler went up in price since the time that I bought it but I'm not going to change the price of the cooler for the sake of this video because when I bought it it was $60 and therefore that's the price that I'll use sorry I know prices change all the time but 60 bucks so $60 $25 and free those are our three different coolers that we use to run these tests and these are the results that we obtained now obviously the liquid cooler gave us better results we achieved higher frame rates in granted l5 and also a higher CP score instant a bench ar-15 but at the cost of spending more than double the amount of money on the corsair h 90 over the hyper t4 okay so let me try to quantify this a bit more for you just in terms of price ratios our corsair h 90 costs $60 in our hyper t4 cost twenty five sixty over twenty five builds 2.4 which means that it literally cost two point four times as much money to purchase the h 90 over the t4 now in terms of just a performance ratio our coarser h 90 allowed us to achieve a performance increase of six point four to six percent whereas our air-cooled hyper t4 only allowed us to achieve a percentage increase of three point seven one eight percent overall now this is the point you have to catch it costs a little over double the amount of money to purchase the water-cooled unit however we're only receiving a little under double the performance increase using the water-cooled unit over the air-cooled unit so you're paying more than twice as much money for a system that's not even giving you twice as much performance and that's why the air-cooled unit is actually the better price to performance performer so no i'm not bashing water coolers in any way in fact my most recent bills have all featured water coolers however in the case of strictly price to performance this particular air core the cooler master hyper t4 does reign supreme over the corsair h 90 so yeah you can take whatever you want that i mean some people are still going to buy water coolers just because the fact that they might look cooler or they're quieter that our many many other factors to consider here including the fact that air coolers are generally a bit louder and bulkier which could affect RAM clearance however on the water cooler side of things it's a bit sketchy or you could have a pipe leak or you could have a pump to stop working altogether in the middle of a game then you could overheat your CP or just completely soak your motherboard yeah it's definitely riskier and it is more expensive but you are going to be able to squeeze out a bit more performance in games and CP synthetics rendering and things of that sort so let me know in the comments below what you're sporting in your rig let me know if you're satisfied or dissatisfied with whatever you're cooling your cpu with and what you plan to upgrade to in the near future be sure to LIKE the video if you liked it dislike it if you dislike it and if it is like it let me know in the comments I can take constructive criticism just don't be weird just like weird things just just weird also be sure to subscribe if you haven't already because we do cool things like this all the time on the channel right yeah this is science studio thanks for learning with us