The good thing with AIO water cooler is that you don't need to remove them when transporting your PC.
I had a Ninja 3 before, which is 1040 grams with fan. I was always afraid of breaking the mobo even while transporting it very small distances. I believe the phanteks is even heavier, like 1.3Kg.
It also makes it easier to buy ram as many tower coolers block one or two RAM slots, especially if you have ram with heatsinks.
AIO might not be just as good as the phanteks, but still very decent.
My Antec 620 with push pull (added a scythe fan) is very quiet, and keeps my 2500k @4.3Ghz at around 30c idle, and 40-48C while gaming.
A 16 hrs long prime 95 run peaked highest core at 59C.
However if you plan crazy OC a phanteks would be miles better, but at modest OC like 4.5GHz or less on gen2/gen3 Core it really doesn't matter if your CPU is 62 or 67C at crazy loads like prime95.
I had a Ninja 3 before, which is 1040 grams with fan. I was always afraid of breaking the mobo even while transporting it very small distances. I believe the phanteks is even heavier, like 1.3Kg.
It also makes it easier to buy ram as many tower coolers block one or two RAM slots, especially if you have ram with heatsinks.
AIO might not be just as good as the phanteks, but still very decent.
My Antec 620 with push pull (added a scythe fan) is very quiet, and keeps my 2500k @4.3Ghz at around 30c idle, and 40-48C while gaming.
A 16 hrs long prime 95 run peaked highest core at 59C.
However if you plan crazy OC a phanteks would be miles better, but at modest OC like 4.5GHz or less on gen2/gen3 Core it really doesn't matter if your CPU is 62 or 67C at crazy loads like prime95.
Desktop HTPC:
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming5- i7-4790k MSI-B75-E33, i5-2500k
Corsair Vengeance 16GB RAM Crucial 8GB RAM
Gigabyte GTX780 GHz Edt. ASUS GTX960 Strix
Win 10 Pro / OS X 10.10 Win 10 Pro
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming5- i7-4790k MSI-B75-E33, i5-2500k
Corsair Vengeance 16GB RAM Crucial 8GB RAM
Gigabyte GTX780 GHz Edt. ASUS GTX960 Strix
Win 10 Pro / OS X 10.10 Win 10 Pro