No one wants their CPU toasted to an eight-core crisp! Keep yours chill with the right CPU cooler. Here's how to make sense of PC air cooling, water cooling, stock coolers, and even custom loops. I ...

In the deep, dark past of computing, water was the default means of keeping a computer cool. Now, in the 21 st century, it is making its presence felt again. If you compare the use of water to air as ...

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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 ...

Asetek’s main patent on pump-in-cold-plate CPU coolers lapsed on May 6, 2025. For the past 20 years, this patent shaped how most AIO water coolers were built—forcing pump, cooling block, and radiator ...

Cooler Master has a very cool exhibit at Computex this year. The Inception Project #inceptionproject shows how the firm worked to meet the challenge of build the biggest water cooled PC ever, and you ...

In IBM's labs, miniscule rivers of water are cooling computer chips that have circuits and components stacked on top of each other, a design that promises to extend Moore's Law into the next decade ...

Processor cooling hardware—whether a simple stock air cooler or an elaborate liquid cooling system—is a vitally important part of any desktop PC. But shop around today, and you'll see an abundance, if ...