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Also if you search for radiator+leaks you are bound to get links about radiators with leaks.
Anyways as for liquid cooling, it's easiest to get one of the self-contained, zero maintaince ones just for the CPU, linked to a single or duel fan on a huge heat sink, stuck to the back or top of your case. They are very low risk and not a problem for most. Corsair H105 is quite good and quiet.
Noctua fans are great and silence (extremely low dba). Whatever fans you get, ensure it's at least 120mm (140mm is ideal), larger the better airflow and more quiet they are.
For the CPU, scrap of that crappy standard thermal grease that came with it. Draw a line of Arctic Silver 5 premium thermal compound down it and rotate lock the heatsink in place (this will create an oval shape from the thermal compound when pressed together, which best transfers the heat). Different CPUs will have best techniques to do this, so look it up online. Arctic Silver 5 will drop the CPU temperture greatly - up to 12 degrees differences.
The rest all depends on the PC case itself. PSU with detactable cables, etc, always helps airflow. Cable management behind the motherboard is another.
If you want something real and extreme however, you would do it all yourself, heat block the CPU, Memory and Graphics card, etc - linking them all to liquid cooling. Gaming motherboards, high end graphic cards with the liquid cooling option, etc, better support this idea, but can be costly and overkill in most cases.
I've personal done all that, but still don't overclock, as no need...
It is much better to look and remove bottlenecks with your money. Such as check Windows Experience Index for starts (if you don't have any real benchmark). I'm currently getting a 7.8/7.9 overall performance, before that only 5.9 on my hard drive - the last bottleneck, which I added a small 120GB SSD (Solid State Drive) caching in front of to boost it greatly.
For memory, 8GB 1600MHz CL7 or CL8 timing with 1.5 volts is ideal for gaming purposes. Standard CL9 is fine, but lower is better (more over the MHz). Slower tends to bottleneck, but faster won't show more than a 1% increase toward gaming purposes and normally just a waste of cash.
The graphics card is where it all goes, get a good one here depending on what resolution you want to go up to. Nvidia GTX 780 is a beast, the Ti version is overkill, the Black Titan is holy ****** ****!
Next Gen PCs link the CPU to memory as well as CPU to graphic processing, to reduce all that bottleneck for you. 60-80% performance increase over 1st Gen PCs and less need to overclock.