Why watercooling?

WATERCOOLING ENGINE

Air-cooling became les and les effective in cooling as the hottest parts in computers due to development of especially CPU’s and graphic cards, became more and more power dissipating. So water-cooling became more and more popular, especially at computer enthusiasts.
In last 3 years when the power consumption of main computer parts jumped so high, the air-cooling emitting sound became unbearable. That is the main reason why popularity of water cooling has grown fast and that will continue growing.

WATERCOOLING SYSTEM

Water-cooling system consists of:
- water block
- water pump
- radiator with fan
- tubing
- reservoir

Bottom picture shows us the engine of water-cooling. 

Image 1: water-cooling engine

The medium of water-cooling system is mostly distillated water with anticorrosion additions which prevents the metal system parts from corrosion and anti-algae additions which prevents algae’s to grow in the water.
The water flow is shown in image. The water pump is pushing water to circulate in system. The water accepts heat in CPU water block and continues to flow in thru the radiator, where the heat transmits to air which is flowing thru the radiator ribs. Fan is increasing heat transmission by increasing air flow. Water continues to water reservoir which enables us to fill the system with water very easy.

PROS AND CONS OF WATERCOOLING

In bottom table are shown advantages and disadvantages of watercooling:

	Air cooling	Water cooling
Installation difficulty	+	-
Space requirements	+	-
Loudness	-	++
Price	+	-
Cooling performance	-	++

The main advantages of water-cooling are much better cooling performance and low noise emission. With water cooling the temperatures can be reduced up to 2 times and the PC can became soundless. These are the reasons for PC users to go for water-cooling.

WATER & COMPUTER?

Many PC users are afraid of having water in their computer, but the fear of water leaking are reduced to minimum if the system is installed right. For more skeptical users, the fluid for water-cooling has been developed which is not electrical conductive, therefore there are no possibilities for cooling fluid to damage the hardware.

HOW NOISY IS WATERCOOLING

Image 2: The watercooling noise

The image tells us everything. The water-cooling is much quieter than air-cooling and even insect’s sound.