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 ...

Fix the cause instead of treating the symptom ...

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 ...

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 ...

As computing power increases with each new iteration of processors, actual power consumption tends to increase as well. All that waste heat has to go somewhere, and while plenty of us are content to ...

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.

Liquid-chilling a single part of your PC is easy, building a whole custom loop to cool each component yourself isn't. EK Water Blocks have designed a simple configuration tool to guide you through the ...

Gaming PCs One Redditor has 3D-printed a big yellow air duct to attach to their GPU, and the results are middling: It 'does nothing but it looks cool' Gaming PCs This creator extraordinaire has built ...

My last work on Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) was published on May 8. That article was titled “Super Micro Computer Q3: The Less-Discussed Topics (Rating Downgrade)”. As stated in the title, the ...

[Credit: Green Revolution Cooling] If you’ve got a hardcore gaming PC with two or more video cards, you know that the best way to cool it is with a liquid cooling system and a thousand more fans all ...