Are you a water-cooled or air-cooled user?

I have an air-cooled Freezer 13 on my i5-2500k. But I just wanted to know if the majority is using water cooled these day? Is it much better with water-cooled? Seems like a lot of works for maintenance.

 

I have tried water cooling but found that the results did not show a marked improvement over my other PC that has a Cooler Master V8 on an i7 950 CPU http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=5279

Combined with good intake and output fans (120mm) your PC will run well within the temp rage even under heavy game play.

 

I use the cheaters water cooling - Corsair H50 in a push/pull arrangement. Sealed system so no maintenance except blow out dust from radiator occasionally.
Folded 24/7 for months with a i7 950 overclocked to right at 4 Ghz and temps stayed in the high 60 to low 70 C range. Antec 900 case with boatload of fans.

 

Well there is no maintenance really,maybe a flush after a year or two but that's it.

I have heard of complaints about maintenance before but I'm not sure what people mean,disassembly is more work if you plan an upgrade but to me its part of the fun of an upgrade.

I currently run my I7930 at 4.4ghz @ about 70C 'depending on room temp' in linpack,I don't know of any air cooler that could do that and my computer is pretty quiet.

Advantages cooler and quieter,disadvantages initial cost and more importantly it doesn't scale that well when compared to a good air cooler,you may only increase the speed of your cpu by 10-20% over the best air coolers but could pay double or triple the price of the best air cooler for the privilege.

So I would say its still not currently an economical way to cool a computer and still in the enthusiast realm,I would also guess the majority are still on air and rightly so IMO.