Air vs Liquid cooling: For PC enthusiasts specifically

[Mazty]

CGI-Quality said:

Mazty said:

CGI-Quality said:

Alright PC gurus, it's about that time again for me to make a $2,000+ buy on PC parts. However, I'd like some honest feedback, as frankly, cooling is my only head-scratcher. Some say I should stick to intense air, while others believe liquid cooling is the way to go. My question(s) to you guys are:

What are the positives to liquid? What are the negatives? Is there truly a benefit over air cooling? Money isn't an issue, so I am only curious before I take this plunge on Thurs!

Note: If you're curious as to why I am building anew rig, I'd be happy to tell you in a future post.

No real point in water cooling. It's great when you want to do horrific overclocks, but that's all it really enables and frankly that money is better spent elsewhere. 

Firstly, closed loop systems can be noisy as hell, whereas the better full loop system costs a lot of money and in most cases is over-kill.

Second of all, you can get phenomenal performanc using something like the SilverArrow, a good case and the right fans, whilst saving cash.

Instead of wasting cash so you can overclock, with your budget you may as well get the top of the line cards instead of overclocking their smaller siblings. 

No plans to overclock anytime soon and a GTX 690 + i7 3970X combo is as top of the line as it gets right now. So I'm already covered there as well. 

Why that i7? Get a cheaper one and double up on the GPU? Using top of the line 2.4Mhz DDR3?