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Wow, I admire your walk with blinders on, my grand father used blinders on his mules to plow the fields that way they could only see the rut they were walking in. But when it was time for them to go to the barn and get something to eat, he just snatched the blinders off and they made a beeline to the barn, and you'd best not be in their way either.
Just to educate you a little, if you are receptive, an AIO water cooler is really just a step up air cooler to a certain extent as there are air and water coolers that are on the same cooling level, that cooling performance gap only increases with the AIO when you go to larger radiator cooling field, then cooling performance can exceed the plain heat pipe air coolers.
A custom loop gives you the advantage of increasing the size of the radiator cooling field allowing more cooling performance but you are still ambient cooling and no matter how large your radiator cooling field is, you'll never achieve lower than a Zero DeltaT, unless you somehow can position your radiators to take advantage of a room air conditioner and those performance gains will be minimal at best.
Manually overclocking will give you better control over how high you can overclock and voltage used etc. but it's up to you to learn how to do it.
When you say:
You are more concerned about long term heat, and the CPU is more than capable of further abuse, and designed to operate in high ambient temperatures that some of us would be miserable in.
It can be fun, or it can be a nightmare if you don't know what you are doing, what it will be is much more expensive than the best AIO.
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