Water cooling noob question

AssaTM

AssaTM

AssaTM

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Hey all, I was just curious how hard is it to install a water cooling system to a relative noob when it comes to building systems? the whole thing seems a lil daunting, not because of all the wires and stuff, but because liquid is involved, and I couldnt bare to spill anything over my new PC or anything, also, how does watercooling work exactly? I fail to see how it can cool a component without the liquid actually touching the component? or does it just make a block of metal or something cooler? sorry for the stupid questions but it's something i'm looking to go towards in the future, Many Thanks to whoever can help :)
 
simple way of explaining it is it shifts the heat away from your cpu faster depending on the pump speed.

but read the guide davemac posted, its good read.

Also their is non conductive coolant you can use called F1, and if you really dont want to spill any on your system you can do a leak test first then install components.
 
Ah ok fair enough then, thanks guys, and yeh I know it'l take a little while before I do something like water cooling but I just wanted to learn abou it now so that in the future I can learn even more, i'm happy to keep learning thats all :), but is the actual process all that hard? it really doesnt seem very complicated, it's just the fact liquid is involved in the process that worries me :p
 
It's not hard & naturally after you've done it once a lot of the fears dissapear.

It does require maintenance and it can put you off doing jobs that would take 5 minutes when on air if you need to drain and strip down the system to change a component.

As long as you use decent quality parts and test it for leaks properly before use it is no more dangerous than air cooling.
 
Air doesn't need to touch the cpu to cool it so why should water? The process is exactly like air cooling: a heatsink is put on the hot thing and coolant (air/water) is passed over the heatsink to remove heat from the heatsink and take it away allowing the heatsink to absorb more heat from the hot thing.

The point about water is that it can absorb much more heat than air so pushing water over the heatsink absorbs more heat more quickly and therefore can cool the heatsink and therefore the hot thing more efficiently.

The heat can then be taken along the tubes with the water to a big heatsink that the water flows through and a big fan cools. This allows you to have a heatsink that is really big and not confined by the size of your case or the immediate area of the hot thing. You can use more and bigger fans which allow you to use quieter ones and achieve the same cooling as a small loud fan on a heatsink directly cooling the hot thing.
 
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