What does water cooling mean?

What does water cooling mean

The principle of water cooling is the same as air cooling, except that water cooling utilizes a circulating fluid to carry the GPU's heat from the water cooling block to the heat exchanger and back again, replacing the homogenized metal or heat pipes of air cooling, where the heat exchanger portion of the system is virtually a replica of the air cooling radiator.

The biggest feature of water cooling is twofold: it equalizes the heat of the GPU and works with low noise. Because the specific heat capacity of water is so large, it can absorb a lot of heat and keep the temperature from changing significantly, the temperature of the GPU in the water-cooled system can be well controlled, and sudden operations will not cause instant and drastic changes in the internal temperature of the GPU.

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From Direct? Naked? The maturity of the technology has also allowed water cooling to evolve from a split system that requires self-assembly to an integrated system that is now directly usable, lowering the operational threshold for use.

Water-cooled coolers (or should I say? Liquid-cooled cooling?) The components generally include a water-cooled head, a water-cooled circulation pump, a heat exchanger, a conduit, and a thermal fluid (e.g., water), etc.; the principle of specific heat dissipation is in essence the same as air-cooled cooling, except that water-cooling utilizes a thermally conductive fluid to carry the GPU's heat from the water-cooled block to the heat exchanger before distributing it out in lieu of the air-cooled cooling of a homogeneous metal or heat pipe, except that the liquid's specific heat capacity is much greater than that of the air and that the heat exchanger is more effective than the general air-cooled cooling. The specific heat capacity of the liquid is much larger than air, and the heat exchanger's efficiency is also higher than the general air-cooled radiator.

The main feature of the liquid cooling radiator is that it not only has efficient cooling performance, but also has a good performance in noise control; as for its shortcomings are also more obvious, first of all, the cost is higher, and the use of the more inconvenient, more unfavorable is that if the thermal fluid leakage will damage the computer's internal circuit boards, or even cause short circuits and other dangerous situations, and the risk of this risk with the increased use of the life of the This is a great way to get the most out of your PC's operating system.

Water-cooling solutions are still limited to a very small number of high-end graphics cards, and are not as mainstream as some of the vendors had predicted. The main reason why water cooling is not popular is because it is expensive, takes up a lot of space, and is not easy to install, plus the risk of heat transfer fluid leakage increases the cost of replacing parts later on. In addition, today's graphics cards are moving towards higher performance and lower power consumption, such as the Maxwell series, which is more likely to reduce the reliance on water cooling; others include advances in new cooling technologies.

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