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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 ...

No one wants their CPU toasted to an eight-core crisp! Keep yours chill with the right CPU cooler. Here's how to make sense of PC air cooling, water cooling, stock coolers, and even custom loops. I ...

There are quite literally thousands of PC cases out there, but not all of them are a good choice for designing and building a custom water-cooling loop inside. Something like the NZXT H210i may look ...

Air cooling and water cooling are the two main temperature control options for your home computer. And if you’re the type of person who enjoys building your PC from the ground up, you’ll know just how ...

While most PC builders are content to rely on an AIO liquid cooling loop or good old-fashioned air, there are always those who will go the extra mile to keep their components frosty. If you’re willing ...

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 ...

Every PC needs some kind of cooling mechanism to transfer heat away from the processor, at which point you'll need to choose between air cooling and liquid cooling. As a PC enthusiast who builds my ...

It has been around four years since I ceased creating and maintaining open-loop liquid cooling solutions for my systems. Gone are the days when I had bottles of coolant ready for system flushes and ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to spray paint acrylic hard tubing for your water cooling system. By adding masking to your rigid tubing and spraying over it, you can easily add spirals, lines, or ...