The components inside your PC generate heat. Your standard heat-sink-and-fan combo is usually sufficient for the average user, but when you push your components harder, they’ll run hotter. If you want ...

Building a powerful PC often raises one big question: is water cooling necessary for PCs, or is air cooling enough? With modern CPUs pushing higher wattage and turbo speeds, thermal management plays a ...

While water cooling may seem like the best option, as it's the most common, that doesn't mean it's the best.

Fix the cause instead of treating the symptom ...

Custom water cooling just took another step towards being a viable option for many more system builders, thanks to Corsair. With its Corsair CH405i iCUE Link water cooling kit, it has provided a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Keeping your computer cool is essential for optimal performance. When a PC starts to overheat, the processor frequency will drop (thermal ...

In early April, I reviewed the EK 275 Conquest. It’s a gaming PC built with custom liquid cooling, which brought forth years of misconceptions, bad advice, and dated ideas about custom liquid cooling ...

As computing power increases with each new iteration of processors, actual power consumption tends to increase as well. All that waste heat has to go somewhere, and while plenty of us are content to ...

In the deep, dark past of computing, water was the default means of keeping a computer cool. Now, in the 21 st century, it is making its presence felt again. If you compare the use of water to air as ...

Asetek this week revived the promise of bringing liquid cooling to laptops, which the company is pitching as an alternative to noisy fans. Air fans cool most of laptops today, but the heat they ...

If you’re building or tuning a PC with an AIO (all-in-one) liquid cooler or a custom water cooling loop, it’s tempting to assume that running your pump at full speed all the time ensures the best ...

Taking inspiration from the automotive industry, the tech team over at the YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips have created the ultimate sleeper PC using the oldest, dirtiest, beige case they could find ...