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 ...

Alyssa Shearrow is a Commerce Writer from the United States. She is an experienced PC builder, with a background working in System Integration and a focus on water-cooling. She's the "go-to" friend ...

Custom liquid cooling was in its heyday around 10 years ago, as every enthusiast wanted to craft the next best watercooling loop. It might not be as prevalent anymore, thanks to more advanced AIOs and ...

In brief: Custom liquid-cooled PCs usually look fantastic, but they can be a lot of work, expensive, and introduce potential problems, such as leaks. Imagine, then, the amount of effort and money that ...

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 ...

Back in the day, liquid cooling meant "custom loop," but you only needed to worry about the two or three processors at the most. These days, when you're doing custom-loop liquid-cooling, you need to ...

A company from China has unveiled a unique prebuilt PC with pre-installed liquid cooling and an open-frame chassis design. The iGame Neptune PC from Colorful sports a unique aesthetic thanks to its ...

In brief: When it comes to liquid cooling a PC, details matter. The basics have long since been agreed upon – a water block, a pump, perhaps a reservoir, a radiator, and tubing that links it all ...

Extreme PC modifier and airbrush artist Franco Martinelli, based in Torino, Italy, has created a new semiautomatic loading system for PC liquid cooling systems called Scorpio. Scorpio has been ...