Would 850watts be overkill? PC Build questions.

[bde]

I have a pretty good understanding of fluid dynamics, thermal dynamics and of engineering. I recognize that there are multiple points of failures in a water cooling system. For example the following this could happen at any time. Pump failure, fitting failure (causing the liquid to spill onto hardware, albeit extremely rare), Water block gets gunked up and stops flowing, Tubing gets a gash in it and leaks fluid all over (Please don't ask why this would happen, but know that it's 10000x times more possible to happen in my system than yours lol). The list goes on and on, but there are plenty of things that CAN fail in a liquid cooling setup. It's rare, but ALL pumps will eventually fail. Mechanical devices in general aren't meant to last forever. Permeation is another factor as well.

I will not ask why these could happen, it’s just simple common sense and with everything that you just explained it perfectly make sense how water cooling system could fail! But I will ask you why would it be 10000x more likely to fail on your system than mine?

 

[fastamdman]

I will not ask why these could happen, it’s just simple common sense and with everything that you just explained it perfectly make sense how water cooling system could fail! But I will ask you why would it be 10000x more likely to fail on your system than mine?

The only part that is much much more likely to happen on my system, rather than yours, is the tubing getting slashed and leaking fluid. The reason mine is more likely to happen is that I have an extremely high rpm fan that is balancing on the 2 tubes blowing air at the ram/motherboard vrm lol. If the fan were to fall the wrong way, it's POSSIBLE that it would put a gash in the hose, causing fluid to spill out.

The rest of the things I mentioned could just as easily happen to you as anyone else. Besides the fan thing lol.