PC Liquid Cooling
Here is a quick video showing you just how easy it is to install, check it out.
In most PC’s these days, a lot of heat is generated by components like your CPU and graphic card. There is so much produced that your PC needs to get rid of the excess or you risk frying your components. This is achieved by transferring the excess heat your components make to a heat sink, and the heat sink is then blown by the fan to remove the excess heat from the system.
Cooling your PC with fans is not only noisy and irritating, it is also a highly inefficient way to do so as air is a very poor heat conductor. Water is about 10x more efficient at conducting heat as it is a much more denser than air.
Unlike, say the internal combustion engine, electrical components do not tolerate direct water contract. So instead of using channels to pump liquid directly through CPU chips as coolant is pumped through liquid cooling uses water blocks. A water block is simply a hollow heat sink with both an inlet and outlet for the liquid coolant. As the water travels through the water block, it transfers the heat along with it. The water then travels into the radiator where it is cooled, typically by a slow moving fan or passive exturnal reservior tank which has no fan and completely silent. It is then pumped back in again, and the cycle begins again.
Liquid cooling systems generally come in 2 forms.
Internal Resivour
In an internal cooling system, the components are installed within the chassis. This look very neat but restricts the size of the resivour. The internal systen tend to need a fan to cool the water. So if you are looking for a compleatly scilent PC, this is probaly not the best way for you (although the fan will blow very slowly, and be almost scilent). This kind of systen is ideal for gamers who like to overclock their CPU and GPU’s.
External Reservoir
Unlike the internal systems, the external reserviors can be much larger. Most have fins on the outside that dump the excess heat to the surounding air and because these reserviors have large surface areas, there is know need for fans – hence they are totally silent. Check out the Zalman RESERATOR below.
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