CPU Cooling Options - Stock, Air, Water - Everything you Need to Know as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2013-05-07
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if you're an average computer user odds are excellent you're using one of these
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to cool your CPU on today's fast as possible we're going to tell you all you
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need to know about the basic aftermarket CPU cooling options that are available
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to you now to be clear if you're not overclocking that is turning up the
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speed of your CPU the stock cooler is very functional it's inexpensive in fact
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it comes free with most CPUs it's easy to install It's relatively quiet as long
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as again you're not trying to do anything crazy with it and it'll fit in
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pretty much any case and will not interfere with other components on the
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motherboard such as high-profile memory sticks that stick up high like this the
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problem with stock coolers is the performance isn't very good look at the
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size of this an aftermarket air cooler can have way more surface area and use
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much larger fans than a stock cooler it's also inherently very reliable
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because there's almost nothing to fail on it it's great for overclocking and in
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terms of quiet operation being able to use large highly optimized high
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performance performance fans such as this one or even taking all the fans off
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it and just using the case fans to passively draw air through a large heat
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sink like this can make your system not only look great but be incredibly silent
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now the disadvantages of large aftermarket air cooling heat sinks can
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be mostly compatibility I can fit it on this way but I'm only going to be able
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to put a fan in the middle because my high performance high-profile memory
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gets in the way on this side and my mosfet gets in the way on this side also
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if I oriented the this way and I had seven PCI slots and my top slot was for
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my graphics card I wouldn't be able to install that graphics card and you can
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clearly see it's not going to fit on this way at all if you buy a small you
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know non-cooling optimized case you can even run into issues where the heat sink
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is so high-profile off the motherboard that you can no longer close your case
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side panel you do have to do some planning and put some thought into it
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when you're using aftermarket air these pre-filled liquid cooling units can
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offer some advantages versus other Solutions they're very low profile on
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the CPU socket usually the pump and the cooler are mounted on the CPU with tons
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of room around it for high-profile memory or mosfet heat sinks or anything
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else you'd want while the bulk of the cooling is actually done away from the
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CPU socket using a large radiator you
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get that performance that comes with having options available that even use
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dual 120 mm or dual 140 mm fans and you
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get Great Looks the only disadvantage for stuff like liquid coolers is it does
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add a second point of failure to your system so if either the pump or the fan
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fails on your liquid cooler then your CPU won't be very cool and your system
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will probably automatically shut down and they can be a touch difficult to
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install so while they come in a variety of configurations thick radiators thin
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radiators 120 mil 140 mil single radiator dual
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radiator you're going to have to plan for it if you don't have a large gaming
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oriented chassis there is a chance that a liquid cooler like this won't even fit
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in your system thanks for watching this episode of fast as possible on Tech
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