There’s no right or wrong answer, and viewpoints vary even among our tiny Full Nerd gang. PCWorld CPU guru voices his opinion in the video below, breaking down the advantages (and disadvantages) of ...
Whether you're new to building your own PC or a seasoned veteran, you likely argued with yourself about whether you should go with an air cooling system or a liquid one. You want the best available ...
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 ...
Corsair has unveiled custom liquid cooling components at Computex 2019 under the Hydro X brand. With a complete lineup of CPU/GPU water blocks, a pump/reservoir combo, tubing, radiators, coolant, and ...
The principle behind liquid cooling your PC parts is pretty simple: cool liquid comes in, pulls heat from the component, warm liquid moves out, fans cool it down and expel hot air outside the PC case.
Piecing together a custom liquid cooling setup can be intimidating. Throw hardline tubing into the mix and it can be downright scary for first-time builders. While it's not going to become mainstream ...
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 ...
Gaming PCs Unless my eyes have been cheated by some spell, this is the cheapest RTX 5090 gaming PC with a 9800X3D I can find right now Gaming PCs I've taken a proper bargain of a case from Thermaltake ...
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 ...
EK announced that it would no longer sell its entry-level EK Fluid Gaming aluminum water cooling systems to consumers. To avoid the risk of mixing metals, all EK custom cooling components will now be ...
Ah, crazy PC builds. We’ve seen a PC that comes with its own set of lungs, a mini build crammed inside a Sega Dreamcast, and just about everything in between. We’ve never seen anything like this, ...
This open-air gaming PC looks a little like it came out of an automatic watch factory since it's inspired by the design of ASRock's Taichi motherboards with all their cogs. PC modder Jason Simm went ...