Air cooling vs AIO liquid cooling: the verdict Air cooling offers great performance at a compelling price, while liquid cooling offers the absolute best thermal efficiency and noise reduction capabilities — but you'll need to make sure you have room for a radiator in your case. You...
We turned to a hybrid air-liquid cooling solution to ensure that the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM LIQUID X 24G can handle even extreme overclocks without breaking a sweat, while offering great headroom under typical operation. In fact, MSI has already tested and broken our own clock speed recor...
The liquid coolant used in a CPU liquid cooling system is typically a mix of distilled water and other chemicals that are designed to inhibit the growth of algae and other microorganisms. The liquid is then circulated through a water block, which is a metal plate that sits on top of the C...
This liquid CPU cooler from EVGA has got 240mm radiator and dual 120mm fans. This is a pretty solid and well-built closed-loop liquid cooling solution and it comes with sleeved tubes and a copper base on a water block. The RGB LEDs on the water block can be synced with other EVGA co...
AiO coolers are slowly but surely becoming mainstream as far as cooling methodologies go in the PC industry. However, most users are still a bit skeptical about the idea of “liquid cooling” in the first place. Air coolers are traditionally quite convenient and even cheaper than most AiO cool...
If you want to go extreme with your setup, you might want to consider putting together your own custom liquid cooling loop. If you’re still on the fence on whether or not liquid cooling or air cooling would be better for you, check out our guideLiquid Cooling vs. Air Cooling: Which ...
Keeping that in mind, water cooling is one of the factors of PC building and when it comes to that, you have two options; you can either go with AIO liquid cooling, or you can go with a custom loop. The latter being more expensive, difficult to install but with better overall performa...
what is the effect to the cooling performance of an AIO or Custom Loop's cooling effectiveness by having a PWM pump curve vs full duty cycle all the time? This will obviously effect liquid dwell time in the blocks and radiators so does a lower pump speed shorten the loop time to thermal...
Arctic hands down beats Corsair with the Liquid Freezer series and their P12/P14 fans - those are really close to Noctua levels of performance, and thanks to slightly thicker radiators than most and good cold plates they also perform very well. The EK AIOs are also excellent - largely ...
Yes. You won’t get the same level of control as with a 4-pin PWM fan, but you can still plug in a 3-pin fan to a 4-pin connector perfectly fine. For more info, check out ourPWM vs. DC Fans article. How can you tell if your liquid cooling Pump is working?