If you are overclocking your gaming PC and still have an air cooling then now is the time to start thinking about buying a liquid cooling system for your pc. Not only will liquid cooling will keep your pc components colder compared to standard air solutions extending your hardware life time but it will help you achieve higher overclocks that are infinitely more stable.
Liquid Cooling is Adaptable
I bet you have researched liquid cooling for your computer before and was instantly put off by the price compared to a non-liquid variation and while true the initial outlay on a custom liquid cooling kit for your pc is expensive, it can infinitely scale and even adapt to the rig you have now or in the future.
If heat distribution is not enough, add in a bigger radiator, If you add a new GPU then just include the new block into the existing loop – magic.
Water-Cooling Blocks Can be Swapped Out
Once you have purchased your initial liquid cooling system for your computer, its relatively cheap to upgrade CPU / GPU / RAM blocks if you decide to upgrade your pc components. Where you may have spent the money on a new performance air-cooling solution instead you can spend the same money on a new water-cooling block for your system. For the same price you get more cooling efficiency and higher overclocks, not only that your pc components will be kept even cooler extended their total life-cycle.
Liquid-Cooling Looks Out of this World
When liquid-cooling is done right boy does it stand out from the crowd. There is no denying that water-cooling looks out of this world, especially when you build your own liquid cooling kit with 1/2 ID Tubing, UV reactant coolant and UV Cathodes, you can create some really amazing effects just check out this example!
The most powerful, compact and silent rig you can build to date; R4BE, i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E, 32GB G.SKILL 3000MHz (at 2400MHz CL8), NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 4 Way SLI, 250 l/h high flow water-cooling system with 4X360, 1×200, 1×140 & 1×120 radiators, .925 Silver CPU Block, water-blocks for motherboard, 8 sticks RAM, 4 GTX TITAN, 2 HDD and for 4 DDC pumps. Rig temp ambient +7°F.
This absolute monster is owned by Slinky PC over at overclock.net and is a prime example of what can be achieved with a quality custom liquid cooling system for your gaming pc.
Liquid Cooling Kit or Custom loop?
This is a high debated topic in the overclocking community, should you buy a pre made liquid cooling kit or should your build your own custom one?
With 10 years hands on experience and several kits and custom loops, I feel the best way to go is custom. The reason for that is I find they scale a lot easier and you have a broader range to choose from, for example the Hardware Labs Black Ice GTX360 Radiator for PC Liquid Cooling is an extremely efficent radiator that has been a major building block in all my systems while the SwiftTech MCP655 Variable speed 12v pump is one of the best on the market with an extreme amount of cooling power.
I have personally been using the MCP-655 since my Athlon64 10 years ago, in that time i have only had to replace it once and that was my own fault. not bad for under $100!
These two examples are a prime example of why custom kits are the way forward. Instead of spending $200 on a pre-made liquid cooling kit for your pc spend $280 and have a better cooling system that will last for years to come and extend the lifetime of your pc components.
