While considerable engineering talent has been utilized at Intel and AMD to make CPUs more power-efficient and therefore generate less heat, not every component on a modern PC is built to be a power ...

Custom liquid cooling was in its heyday around 10 years ago, as every enthusiast wanted to craft the next best watercooling loop. It might not be as prevalent anymore, thanks to more advanced AIOs and ...

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 ...

Alyssa Shearrow is a Commerce Writer from the United States. She is an experienced PC builder, with a background working in System Integration and a focus on water-cooling. She's the "go-to" friend ...

If PCIe 5.0 drives run even hotter than PCIe 4.0 ones. Active M.2 cooling could become a necessity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

We visited ID-Cooling at Computex in June to see what new products they have to show. Last year, they introduced liquid-cooling equipment built into the chassis frame. This year, the company showed ...

Generally speaking no. Modern GPU coolers are pretty good, and many turn the fans off completely at idle/desktop use so there's no fan noise outside of gaming anyway. The GPU temps from Table 1. Build ...

How do you beat a water-cooled gaming PC? With a full immersion PC, of course, where you sink all of your components into a bath of liquid. It's a technique already used for servers, but Thermaltake ...

Laptop computers have gotten pretty powerful in recent years, but desktops still have a few advantages. Want a user-replaceable CPU or GPU? With a few notable exceptions that’s not possible with ...

Invest in upgrades that are worth it, not the ones that feel nice to own ...

There are few sights more pleasing for us than a well-designed custom water-cooling system, and this gaming PC is one of the finest we've seen. Built inside a huge Thermaltake Tower 900 case that ...