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Loading ...(Mis)adventures in water cooling
garethogden
You may have read my previous post about water-cooling my PC, in which I described how I improvised a mounting system for a water block (since the original mounting kit had gone missing). At the end of this post I effectively warned against doing this, and it seems that this was good advice since my improvised mounting system broke over the weekend (cue sorrowful violins).
This meant having to completely strip-down the PC to almost a bare case (in order to remove the retention bracket from the rear of the board) and rebuild it again from scratch. However, rather than attempt to mod another mounting system (I was tempted, I have to admit, and even went to B&Q to eye up some screws) I resigned myself to defeat on this occasion and used an air-cooler instead.
However, I’ve only lost the battle and not the war, because I’m still planning to water-cool the rig in the future. This time, I’m definitely using a proper mounting kit though!
Image: ‘Screws’ by mfshadow
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Loading ...Adventures in water cooling
garethogden
There are many things you can do to a PC in order to mark it out as a custom rig, but few are as obvious or as effective as water cooling. A well-implemented, water-cooled PC is more that just utterly cool, it’s a work of art, as the PCs from Vadim and Voodoo PC regularly illustrate.
I don’t contend to be able to build a water cooled PC to the same standard as these two mighty system builders, but I have dabbled with water cooling on more than a few occasions, both for my home rigs and also for features in the magazine (the last one being the system in the ‘Build your Dream PC’ feature. Read more