Water cooling for PCs explained: performance gains, costs, noise levels, and whether liquid cooling beats air for gaming, overclocking, and daily use.

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 ...

One of my favorite things about PC hardware is that it’s always getting better. Every year I get to enjoy the latest CPUs, GPUs, and memory advances and watch those numbers go up in turn. But there’s ...

My last work on Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) was published on May 8. That article was titled “Super Micro Computer Q3: The Less-Discussed Topics (Rating Downgrade)”. As stated in the title, the ...

The compute power required by AI and HPC is skyrocketing and driving a global transition from 10-15 megawatt data centers to 50-100 megawatt and even gigawatt AI factories. With the next generation AI ...

A surge of 2026 data center cooling announcements, from HRL’s ARPA-E-backed single-phase breakthrough and Johnson Controls’ planned Alloy acquisition to new AI-ready chillers ...

I never considered cooling important enough in my first few PC builds, trusting cheap cases and stock coolers, and never looking at the CPU temps or fan curves. This approach might have worked for ...