No one wants their CPU toasted to an eight-core crisp! Keep yours chill with the right CPU cooler. Here's how to make sense of PC air cooling, water cooling, stock coolers, and even custom loops. I ...
Peanut butter and jelly. Han Solo and Chewie. Expensive electronics and liquid. One of these things is not like the others. Anyone who has suffered a keyboard spill or fished a smartphone from a ...
Back in the days when DIY water cooling was the only option, water cooling was often difficult and the risk of leaking coolant all over your hardware was a very real and very expensive risk. Since ...
CPUs get hot quickly, and when you throw overclocking into the mix, there’s the potential for even more thermal throttling and overheating. This affects the efficiency and even the lifespan of your PC ...
In early April, I reviewed the EK 275 Conquest. It’s a gaming PC built with custom liquid cooling, which brought forth years of misconceptions, bad advice, and dated ideas about custom liquid cooling ...
There’s no right or wrong answer, and viewpoints vary even among our tiny Full Nerd gang. PCWorld CPU guru voices his opinion in the video below, breaking down the advantages (and disadvantages) of ...
My last work on Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) was published on May 8. That article was titled “Super Micro Computer Q3: The Less-Discussed Topics (Rating Downgrade)”. As stated in the title, the ...
Dell’s XPS Desktop is ditching the cheese-grater look in favor of something sweeter. The tower PCs announced today are 42 percent larger and have a new thermal design that flattens the previous ...
A German company is launching a new device that promises to prevent water-cooled PCs from ever spilling liquid on the internal parts. Aqua Computer's Leakshield uses a vacuum pump to create negative ...