it's easy to think that water cooling is a fairly new thing on the computer scene
i mean i'm gonna guess that your old mid-1990s
packard bell didn't have an aio liquid cooler but it turns out that water
cooling has been around for a really long time in fact all the way back in
the mid 1960s ibm had a line of
mainframes called the system360 that featured built-in liquid cooling
although many system 360 models couldn't even handle one million instructions per
second being older computers they still generated enough heat to justify liquid
cooling you could even buy an optional water tank for the mainframe some early
supercomputers also used liquid cooling such as the cray-2 from 1985 which
actually had its components dunked in a special fluid that wouldn't conduct
electricity but as the years went on new types of semiconductors and ever
shrinking transistors made computers a lot more power efficient meaning that
they gave off less heat the result was that it started making more sense to air
cool servers even though air isn't as good as water at carrying away heat air
cooling was cheaper and you didn't have the risk of leaks and speaking of
cheaper it didn't make much sense to water cool early home pcs either as they
were already quite expensive and most home users simply wouldn't benefit from
it but as people started to do more with their pcs water cooling at home started
to emerge in the 1990s however these
early water cooling solutions were almost entirely the realm of enthusiasts
as they were usually homemade intrepid users repurposed materials like drink
bottles pumps from fish tanks and automotive radiators to cool down their
cpus and water blocks themselves could even be fashioned from smaller heat
sinks by sealing a CPU cooler inside a housing with a strong glue or epoxy to
prevent water leaks and then adding connections to allow water to flow and
basically flood the heatsink various designs were used by home enthusiasts
until about the beginning of the 2000s when a retail market for water coolers
began to take shape a good early example is the acetech water chill which was an
aio kit that wasn't closed loop instead
it came as a very utilitarian looking set of components you put together and
fill with water yourself including plain clear tubing and a radiator fan combo
that looks similar to a tower style air cooler the water block also had a simple
pattern in it that would encourage turbulent flow to improve cooling and as
time went on professionally made water coolers would deliver better performance
than homemade solutions partly due to more intricate engineering of their
water blocks to optimize thermal management this was the era where we
started to see water cooling become more common among pc enthusiasts and you saw
things like those totally clear cases with colored tubes going this way and
that rather than the super clean setups of today even apple got into the water
cooling scene as their power mac g5 from 2004 became the first consumer pc to
include liquid cooling by default on some models who'da thunk it in
subsequent years the rise of easy overclocking fueled even more demand for
efficient CPU cooling as overclocking became a matter of simply tweaking a
couple of settings in the BIOS and rebooting your system a market sprang up
for hassle-free water cooling giving rise to the first closed-loop cooler in
2006 also an ace attack creation since then many more companies have gotten
into the aio game and there's also a thriving market for custom loop
components for those who want the best possible performance and instagram
worthy glam shots of their rigs i will say though that i think it'd be really
cool if someone made their own water loop setup out of an old super soaker i
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