THERE’S NOTHING QUITE LIKE having a custom-built liquid-cooled PC. There’s something about configuring every last element of your rig that gives you an incredible feeling of satisfaction. Compare it to restoring a classic car. You know each and every component that you’ve bought, how it works, how you installed it, where the problems might lie, how to fix it when it goes wrong, and best of all, you know that it’s going to perform better than it did before, and it’s unique. Much like that restoration, with liquid cooling you become attached to your work; it suddenly has a personality, a soul, a temperament, and it’s a machine that you’ll remember for years to come.
Yet deciding to embark upon this advanced mode of PC building can be daunting. It requires in-depth knowledge of a vast multitude of parts, intricate experience and instinct that sometimes can’t be taught. And, of course, there’s plenty of room for failure, especially when mixing electricity and H2O.
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