What's the best liquid for PC water cooling? Best answer: It depends on your PC build and the design you're aiming for. All you truly need for a water cooling loop is distilled water and a biocide.

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 ...

The components inside your PC generate heat. Your standard heat-sink-and-fan combo is usually sufficient for the average user, but when you push your components harder, they’ll run hotter. If you want ...

Names and labels are difficult. Take this “3D Printed” water-cooling loop by [Visual Thinker] on YouTube. It undeniably uses 3D printing — but it also uses silicone casting and laser-cut acrylic, too.

I've been water-cooling PCs for around seven years now. I've gone through the troubles of learning the craft, perfecting it, and creating some truly beautiful machines. While it does involve a ...

Water-cooled PCs generally have in common that there’s a radiator somewhere in the loop, yet nobody said that you can’t build the PCB into the radiator. Something like a genuine ...

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 Waterblocks or EKWB, for short, has been an industry leader in DIY PC liquid cooling in many ways, for quite a long time now. EK released its Fluid Gaming line of DIY components a few years back to ...

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 ...

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 ...