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it's easy to think that water cooling is a fairly new thing on the computer scene

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i mean i'm gonna guess that your old mid-1990s

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packard bell didn't have an aio liquid cooler but it turns out that water

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cooling has been around for a really long time in fact all the way back in

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the mid 1960s ibm had a line of

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mainframes called the system360 that featured built-in liquid cooling

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although many system 360 models couldn't even handle one million instructions per

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second being older computers they still generated enough heat to justify liquid

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cooling you could even buy an optional water tank for the mainframe some early

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supercomputers also used liquid cooling such as the cray-2 from 1985 which

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actually had its components dunked in a special fluid that wouldn't conduct

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electricity but as the years went on new types of semiconductors and ever

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shrinking transistors made computers a lot more power efficient meaning that

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they gave off less heat the result was that it started making more sense to air

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cool servers even though air isn't as good as water at carrying away heat air

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cooling was cheaper and you didn't have the risk of leaks and speaking of

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cheaper it didn't make much sense to water cool early home pcs either as they

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were already quite expensive and most home users simply wouldn't benefit from

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it but as people started to do more with their pcs water cooling at home started

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to emerge in the 1990s however these

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early water cooling solutions were almost entirely the realm of enthusiasts

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as they were usually homemade intrepid users repurposed materials like drink

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bottles pumps from fish tanks and automotive radiators to cool down their

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cpus and water blocks themselves could even be fashioned from smaller heat

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sinks by sealing a CPU cooler inside a housing with a strong glue or epoxy to

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prevent water leaks and then adding connections to allow water to flow and

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basically flood the heatsink various designs were used by home enthusiasts

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until about the beginning of the 2000s when a retail market for water coolers

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began to take shape a good early example is the acetech water chill which was an

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aio kit that wasn't closed loop instead

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it came as a very utilitarian looking set of components you put together and

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fill with water yourself including plain clear tubing and a radiator fan combo

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that looks similar to a tower style air cooler the water block also had a simple

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pattern in it that would encourage turbulent flow to improve cooling and as

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time went on professionally made water coolers would deliver better performance

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than homemade solutions partly due to more intricate engineering of their

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water blocks to optimize thermal management this was the era where we

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started to see water cooling become more common among pc enthusiasts and you saw

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things like those totally clear cases with colored tubes going this way and

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that rather than the super clean setups of today even apple got into the water

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cooling scene as their power mac g5 from 2004 became the first consumer pc to

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include liquid cooling by default on some models who'da thunk it in

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subsequent years the rise of easy overclocking fueled even more demand for

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efficient CPU cooling as overclocking became a matter of simply tweaking a

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couple of settings in the BIOS and rebooting your system a market sprang up

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for hassle-free water cooling giving rise to the first closed-loop cooler in

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2006 also an ace attack creation since then many more companies have gotten

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into the aio game and there's also a thriving market for custom loop

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components for those who want the best possible performance and instagram

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worthy glam shots of their rigs i will say though that i think it'd be really

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cool if someone made their own water loop setup out of an old super soaker i

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