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 ...

The build quality of every component in a water cooling configuration is arguably of equal importance. The failure of any one link in the chain can have catastrophic consequences. Because the water ...

Casual and newer users may grossly underestimate how much of a difference heat makes on your computer's resources. Demanding games, video editing, animating, and even virtual machines could force your ...

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 ...

Building a PC with a low budget doesn’t mean poor performance. Cheap components are always getting better, but when budgeting, the PC doesn’t skimp on important things like extra fans, CPU coolers, ...

Air vs liquid cooling for gaming PCs explained, comparing thermal performance, noise, cost, and reliability to help you ...

We always use the same test system and tests with CPU coolers that we compare against each other. The full specifications of our test system are as follows: Since I recently took over our cooling ...

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Noctua, purveyor of ultra-quiet brown/beige fans and massive CPU coolers for twenty long years, has resolutely stayed away from one specific medium, when it comes to keeping chips cool: water. However ...

And Then There Was One... As you can see, the Intel reference cooler is simply unable to keep pace at 3.15GHz (the result of a 150MHz front side bus and a 1.725V CPU voltage setting). Though the ...