with all of the more educated minds concerning pc stuff gathered here i did wonder if any could or are willing to share their take on watercooling? Or just your homebaked opinion will do too , at least for me it will, can't speak for anyone else

do you see it as a must for a pc primarily used for gaming or is it premium hardware only really usefull for machinery running at high to very high loads ?

personally with outside temperatures above 30 degrees celcius i swear that there is less of a dark cloud of heat roaming the area directly above my desktop then it was in previous non water cooled years. Outside that, it does seem to run better on the measurements but if games run better at 1080p high settings i'm not sure.... Maybe my cpu will degrade less but that is something which may or may not be a value, again personally if i do something i do like to do it in a proper way and a cpu watercooler seems proper in my mind

Liquid nitrogen, mate. It's the only way you're going to get >20 FPS on Ark, Survival Evolved ;-)

No real evidence I can give you. I have always treated heat as a major enemy, the more cooling you can get in the better. My main machine is a large desktop with 9 fans and water cooling and the oversized case really helps with airflow. Basically to my understanding, the cooler you can get it the longer your hardware will perform, and perform well.

None of the above. Water cooling is only needed for overclocking. And even then, good airflow and a quality air cooler can do a lot.

Even my Athlon XP (a baking oven element) survived many many years (until I upgraded) with a mid-priced air cooler.

A good HSF and you are good, no need to mess with WC.

Personally, I choose based on looks. Obviously it needs to cool well enough, but as long as it does, then I don't worry about getting the lowest possible temps. Right now I have a low profile air cooler on my CPU. Not because I need a low profile cooler, but because I like that it faces the case window. I also replaced its stock fan with an RGB fan. Looks sweet. Cools well enough. Air coolers take up less space over your motherboard though, so it will look more open in there, if you prefer that.

Generally speaking you do not need watercooling unless you are going to be using your PC at max performance most of the time.

Aircooling is pretty adequate and good aircoolers sometimes outperform midrange watercoolers.
The advantage watercooling has over aircooling is that it spreads out heat better over its thermal mass and you have less temperaturefluctuation than with aircooling.

I have no clue of what I just wrote, it's just what I've seen on LinusTechTips and JayZ2cents.

I'd never use water cooling since if the pipes break, you will probably ruin your whole entire PC once the liquid leaks out all over your other hardware parts.

Of course water cooling is not a must. Air cooling works just fine. But that's presuming you buy a good case and good CPU air cooler and good fans, which you should do.

I've always found air cooling sufficient. Mind you, I've never overclocked a GPU (I've had supposedly factory-overclocked ones) and never explored all possibilities of overclocking the CPU either, but my previous gaming rig lasted for eight years without a hitch and the current one seems hell-bent on beating that.

EDIT: And it gets properly hot in Finland as well during the summer. Last year I regularly clocked 30-34 Celsius on my office thermometer.

Water cooling is cheap and easy and very effective! Best is to have a large tank with salt water and a hose running to your computer. Open the tap right when you open the game and the cooling water will make your pc dead cool.

Dead and cold.

Make this +1 for conventional air-cooling.
Can't and don't want to talk anyone out of using water-cooling, if that's what you had nothing but a good experience with then it is what it is.

What makes air-cooling the better option in my opinion is the minimal if not non-existent maintenance you have to perform on the cooler. You just slap it on the CPU and from then on you pretty much can safely forget about it until the next time you replace the, by then old hardware with current one (usually roughly every 5 years in my case).

With water-cooling you might have to regularly(?) exchange the fluid or check the connections to prevent spillage and the time invested in that I'd rather spend doing something else.

As far as specific manufacturers are concerned, I can't recommend/praise Noctua coolers enough.
Have been using them since the last 15 years now (currently the NH-D15), and never had any issues.
The one before the NH-D15 I actually didn't even have to replace, and could carry over into the, then new build.

LOL what are you smoking? I have to use a 360mm radiator to get mine cooled. Wish I can use a damn air fan..

Most modern processors have TDP 65-125 W. Most air coolers designed for TDP 125-140 W.
Why you chose hot processor like amd fx 9590?