So what is liquid cooling then? Well firstly, everybody knows that CPUs are getting faster and faster every single day. What comes with these faster speeds are an increasing number of transistors inside of CPUs, and also more power is being used. What does this all mean? Well, a lot more heat is being produced!
These days you won’t find a processor on the market without its own heatsink to lower the generated heat caused by the CPU. But as CPUs continue to rise in speed over time, so do the speed of fans to combat the problem. And the faster the fans, the louder they become. So that’s why we turn to other cooling solutions, and that is where computer liquid cooling comes into play.
Just like a radiator in your car, PC liquid cooling systems work similarly to reduce the heat caused by CPUs. The system works by circulating a liquid through the CPU’s heatsink. The liquid works to absorb the heat from the hot CPU, and then the liquid moves towards a radiator located at the rear of your computer’s case. The radiator then transfers the heat out the back of the computer case and into the air. The liquid then repeats this process over again by traveling back through the CPU.
It may sound complicated, but it’s a very simple process in reality.
Advantages And Disadvantages of Liquid Cooling
Liquid cooling systems for your PC are a very efficient way to draw heat away from your CPU, and are a big advantage to overclockers. With liquid cooling, the CPUs temperature is less and therefore this allows for higher clock speeds. For example, some extreme overclockers have been able to almost double their processor speed with the use of liquid cooling systems.
Another advantage of computer liquid cooling is that it reduces the noise of your PC. As opposed to a lot of heatsink and fans, a liquid cooling system is going to run a lot quieter. The system generally contains two fans, one is the fan to move the liquid throughout the PC and the other is the fan at the back of the PC case. Both of these fans are fairly quiet because they don’t need to run very fast, as compared to the fast-spinning (and therefore noisy) fans on a CPU heatsink.
The main disadvantage to liquid cooling at the moment is space. All the parts of the system take up a fair bit of space, and so you will need to have a large case to fit the cooling system. Another downside would have to be the difficulty of installing such a system. You wouldn’t want to be installing it yourself if you’re not 100% sure of what you’re doing, as you may damage your other components if there are leakages.
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