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first of all whatever the uh lightning

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bolt shaped scar on my forehead might indicate water cooling is not magic it

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makes your PC's temperatures lower but it doesn't make your components output

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less heat that means that an air cooled CPU that runs at 80° or a water cooled

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CPU that runs at 60° are both actually

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kicking the same amount of heat out into the room the temperature Improvement on

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them comes from water's ability to move Heat away from the CPU to a large heat

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exchanger much faster than air this heat exchanger is called a radiator and its

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job is to dissipate the heat that your liquid coolant brings to it to the

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surrounding air sounds great right so now you want water cooling question

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number one I get from prospective water cooling owners is what sized radiator

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should I use and the answer is usually the biggest one you can with modern

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pumps and CPU blocks as close and performance as they are the size and

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type of radiator will often have the largest impact on the system's overall

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ability to dissipate heat now most case

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manufacturers are actually listing radiator compatibility on their websites

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these days so life has gotten a little simpler here but you've still got some

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work to do as they don't suggest exactly which product to use because there are

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just so many choices let's break them

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down a little bit most pre-filled liquid cooling systems use either 120 mm or 140

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mm fans and are available in either single or dual fan configurations now

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just to make sure you were paying attention which of those four options do

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you think is best yes the Dual 140 mm

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fan radiator will outperform the other solutions for a couple of reasons by

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presenting the fans on your radiator a much larger surface area to cool you're

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allowing them to spin slower and deliver

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the same performance giving you a quieter system or spin at the same speed

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that means more air flow through the fins of the radiator giving you a cooler

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system but let's say your case doesn't support 140 mm fans and you still want

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more surface area and more heat dissipation good news you can make your

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radiator thicker or you can increase the

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density of the fins that are folded between the water tubes and the rad by

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folding them Tighter and closer to each other this approach does have

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disadvantage though making the radiator thicker may cause interference with

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other nearby components in some cases and both of these things will require

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you to use very high static pressure fans I mean it's generally better to use

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static pressure optimized fans on radiators and heat sinks in as a whole

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but for dense ones it can have an enormous impact on performance now most

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of what we talked about so far is for folks who are buying pre-filled liquid

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coolers or custom ones but these last

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considerations are mostly for the DIY folks or anyone who bought an expandable

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pre-filled like The Cooler Master glacer 240 L some custom builds are going to

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require you to find a radiator that has fitting ports on the top or on you know

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opposing sides or even on opposing ends

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those are out there but they're more of a specialty item for people who are

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trying to achieve a very specific tubing layout in their build another thing to

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watch out for though it's much less common these days is the material the

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radiator is made out of in a water cooling Loop if you're not using

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anti-corrosive additives you want to avoid mixing Metals unnecessarily

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wherever the water makes contact with them brass and copper in the same Loop

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so copper in your block and Brass in your radiator tubes are okay and most

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radiators are made of these materials but I do suggest using an appropriate

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additive if you want to use an aluminum radiator with that said if the fins in

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between are made of aluminum that's just fine speaking of appropriate additives I

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