LIQUID COOLING MACHINES are the show cars of the PC world—striking setups that grab your attention. However, the benefits of switching to a water-cooled system go way beyond just the aesthetics—it can cool down your build while performing at a whisper-quiet volume. There are some downsides to water cooling your build though. It gets complex, so there’s more planning involved than in your regular PC build, but we’re going to show you that anyone can give it a go.
There are two types of water cooling setups, soft tubing, and hard tubing— the latter requiring heating and bending pipes into position. Mixing fundamental plumbing with PC building might sound like the stuff of night terrors, but it’s not that scary once you get into it. We’re going straight into the deep end, but we’ll make things easy to follow. Even I, a newbie water cooler, was able to piece my first system together with only a couple of days and a little trial and error.