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Ceri what do you think about water cooling a PC oh yeah hey everybody welcome back to Jays two cents and if you can't tell by the beginning of this video or even a title at the top of this video today we are going to talk about water cooling and we are doing it by popular demand you've asked and I'm answering how do you know water cooling is for you well water cooling can be for everybody but it's definitely recommended for those people who want to achieve the maximum overclock they can of their processor or live in a hot environment one thing I do want to let you know water cooling isn't necessary for people who are not overclocking or even people who are doing mild overclocks because there are plenty of high end high quality heat seek fans out there that offer just as much cooling capacity as some of the lower end kits that are out there however there are some instances out there where water cooling just may not be for you if you're not overclocking or you're only doing a mild overclock there are much cheaper options out there that offer just as much cooling capacity if not more at a cheaper price so keep that in mind price of water cooling can vary anywhere from 50 dollars for a cheap self-contained unit like the Antec H 50 or all the way up to $1,000 if you go just full-blown custom water cooling loop the problem with some of the smaller kits out there is they just do not generally offer as much cooling capacity or simplicity as a high-end heat sink fan as I mentioned earlier the Noctua CPU heatsink fan is definitely a hard one to beat when it comes to the low end water cooling kits as it just is a monster of a heat sink so if you're thinking about getting something like an H 50 or in 860 I would right off the bat tell you to probably go with a high-end heat sink fan like v8 or an acht or I'd like to go into some of the pros and cons of the self-contained units out there for water cooling to try and give you some decision-making power if you're thinking about going that route some of the pros from the self-contained units are their maintenance-free they're cheaper they come with a warranty and they can fit in almost any case however some of the cons are they have cheap quality fans on them the radiator is generally pretty small life of the pump has been known to be iffy at times and they do not expand so if you decide later you want to add a new part or new water pump or just generally add more cooling capacity you're stuck with that kit and you have to replace the entire thing if you want to upgrade now if you want to get something a little bigger has more capacity than one of those prepackaged units there are plenty of companies out there that offer a kit that come with every part that you need to put together a custom water cooling loop some of those companies are ek Swift Tech X SPC and they contain all the parts you need radiator hose clamps fans and they contain all the parts that you need to put together your loop and keep it going the only thing you have to do is just add a fluid or a coolant and in most cases I recommend that you go with some sort of distilled water and PT nuke anti algae or a silver coil to keep any sort of algae growth or corrosion happening in your loop the pros to these kits are everything you needs included they generally have higher quality parts they're generally larger parts that have more cooling capacity to them and they are expandable so if you decide later you want to add in a video card to your loop you can if you want to add another radiator you can so you're not locked into just one particular kind of cooling capacity the constant oor now you have to put the loop together you have to make sure you do it properly otherwise you can cause damage to your computer or the water cooling unit itself it can leak if you don't do it properly which would lead to increment or death of your computer and they do require maintenance you have to drain and refill the fluid every so often usually once or twice a year is recommended otherwise you can get corrosion or algae buildup issues the last option would be going with a custom water cooling loop from scratch like you see here which is what I did with my computer and the pros and cons are generally the same as the prepackaged kits a lot of the parts are actually the same and a pro with that would be that you get to control every part that goes into your system however a Conda that could be that you are now confused and overwhelmed with the amount of individual water cooling parts there are when putting together a custom water cooling loop so you might run into some part compatibility issues if you don't know exactly what you're looking for just like buying any new computer part when it comes to water cooling there are just tons of choices and it's easy to get overwhelmed and accidentally pick up the wrong part or get something that's not entirely compatible with your setup and not only that you might actually forget to get something that's very important and you might not realize it until it's too late and you're trying to put together your water cooling kit lastly I'd like to address some myths when it comes to water cooling and there are three major myths that I hear all the time on the forums that I go to and I would like to go ahead and dress those right now the first one is that people will say you don't have to worry about killing your computer because there are plenty of non-conductive coolants on the market that is absolutely true there are non-conductive coolants on the market fluid XP was one of the first manufacturers of non-conductive coolants on the market however running any fluid in contact with metal 24/7 it will eventually ionize and pick up some of those minerals and metals thereby making it conductive water itself is not conductive pure water or distilled water does not have any elements in it that conduct electricity however tap water does which gives people the misconception that water conducts electricity what actually conducts the electricity inside of water are the minerals that it picks up in the pipes that's carried to your home but if you were to take distilled water from the grocery store and do a conductive test on it you would see that it's actually very resistant the second myth I want to address is probably one of the most common I hear in the forms of that's very frustrating to try and explain this to people but people have this idea that if you go water cooling your rooms not going to get as hot or your office or wherever you have your computer here's the bottom line people whether you have a heat sink and a fan taking the heat away or you have the water and a radiator taking the heat away you're taking the heat out of your component and sending it to the atmosphere fans and radiators are just two different methods of the same result just because you go water cooling does not mean your room or your office is going to be less warm when you're gaming if anything you might actually find that the room is hotter because you're getting a better thermal conductive element to your cooling system so you're taking more of that heat out of your processor in your video card or whatever you're cooling and moving more of that heat into the atmosphere the last thing I hear people say all the time is I want to go water calling because I want to go completely silent and I've even seen some pictures of people who've gone water cooling and removed all of their case vans with the exception of the fans on the radiator that is bad just because you have water cooling in your system does not mean you are water cooling every part that contains heat there are plenty of elements on your motherboard that still require air to flow over them to cool them off it is true that you can run your fans at a lower speed on the radiator however just like anything else the actual cooling capacity of the radiator is dependent on the amount of air flowing through it you have to take that heat from the radiator and exchange it to the air and carry the air out of the radiator in order to take the heat out of the water so if you have your fans set to the lowest speed possible on the radiator yes it is extremely quiet however you are reducing the thermal capacity of the radiator itself so there is a bit of an exchange you can go with more radiators at a slower speed to get the same result I'll go with a smaller thicker radiator with a higher speed fan and get the same exact temperatures there is a science there and you have to know that science before you either undersized or oversize your cooling capacity based on decibel requirements of your space so if you want something extremely quiet you're going to have to go with more surface area larger radiator or more radiators in order to get that same effect on my system I run a dual radiator setup I have a triple 120 millimeter up top which is an XP extreme edition from Swift tech and have an ex SPC quiet Edition radiator at the bottom of the PCE and they are both in the same loop and I am running fan control software that controls both radiator fans independently from each other one is controlled through the CPU and one is controlled through the GPU so if I'm running a CPU intensive task I can have one radiator cranked up while the other one stays at the same speed allowing me to customize the noise levels depending on the load of the graphics card and CPU inside of my system I hope you found today's video useful and some of this information can help you decide whether or not water cooling is for you it's impossible to cover every single aspect of water cooling a single video on youtube so I ask that if you have any questions regarding water cooling that you put them down in the comments and I'll do the best it can to answer all of your questions don't forget to subscribe if you enjoy today's video if you'd like to see more click the video on the left see my a new show coming out 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