Liquid cooling – should you consider it?

Liquid cooling involves the passing of liquid through CPU or GPU blocks within a loop in order to reduce temperatures by a huge extent. Achieving such drastic reductions in temperature levels (up to 30°C) is not so feasible when implemented with conventional air-cooling methods. The following image shows a liquid-cooled system:

The temperature factor

When processors are busy at work, they obviously generate heat continuously as they compute. Depending on variable loads, the temperatures are also affected. The main goal behind cooling is always to keep such temperatures down, especially when the processors are operating under a full load. It is always good practice to also...