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 ...

Every PC needs some kind of cooling mechanism to transfer heat away from the processor, at which point you'll need to choose between air cooling and liquid cooling. As a PC enthusiast who builds my ...

Computers get hot, and they must be cooled. Your average store-bought PC uses a system of fans to pull heat off major components such as the CPU (central processing unit), graphics processor and hard ...

Custom water cooling just took another step towards being a viable option for many more system builders, thanks to Corsair. With its Corsair CH405i iCUE Link water cooling kit, it has provided a ...

Where Hewlett-Packard once talked to its customers' IT departments, it has now looped in facilities as well. The subject: energy costs. Photo: Hewlett-Packard's cooler Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

A PC case interior can quickly get cluttered and messy once you start adding water-cooling gear and multiple graphics cards, but reader Peter Morey has shown that you can still make an intricate ...

All-in-one water-cooling systems are becoming increasingly popular for cooling CPUs. However, compact water cooling systems not only have advantages, but also disadvantages compared to conventional ...

If you are building a PC water cooling loop to help keep your hardware as cool as possible during those heavy workloads you may be interested in a new piece of kit in the form of the digital leak ...

Every week, the Hackaday tip line is bombarded with offers from manufacturers who want to send us their latest and greatest device to review. The vast majority of these are ignored, simply because ...

As computing power increases with each new iteration of processors, actual power consumption tends to increase as well. All that waste heat has to go somewhere, and while plenty of us are content to ...