I considered water cooling on my PC to make it quieter when I built it. I actually tried a passive cooler first (NoFan CR-80EH), but unfortunately that just didn't work. Maybe mine was faulty, but I ended up getting a big one with a quiet fan. I don't overclock or use a big graphics card and so watercooling seemed like overkill. The PC is quiet enough generally. Ideally it should be silent. Mind you, some old computers we used at work were pretty noisy. They have gotten better over time
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Not a big fan of passive cooling solutions myself, these require a lot of surface area to give away heat and usually the operating temperatures remain higher than I would ideally want them to be...
For a regular PC with an average or low-end hardware and no gaming GPU there is not much point in going for water cooling setup, you can find good silent coolers. If you are building a high-power system for gaming or for work however going for water cooling can help you make it silent even under constant heavy load. Water cooling is also very helpful when overclocking the CPU or the video card as you can generally squeeze more performance without getting too high operating temperatures.