Air Cooler vs Liquid Cooler for cooling a PC | Air Cooling vs Liquid Cooling 2020.
Why Should we Cool CPU ?
Since the new technology of liquid/water cooling CPU has been introduced, many debates over which cooling component to buy i.e. whether one should go for Air Cooling or the latest liquid/water cooling. Cooling the CPU is one of the most important things to take note of while making or using a Computer. There are many components used to build to a computer such as PSU, Hard drive, RAM, Motherboard, CPU(Processor) and etc and most of these components produce heat but only CPU is the only components in the computer to have a dedicated fan except for PSU and in Graphics cards. The North and South Bridges of some Motherboard produce tremendous amount of such that you would not be able to touch it with your bare hands.
Although other components such as RAM and Hard drive also produce heat but there is no significant difference seen in the performance so these not have a dedicated cooling fan. If you try to run any application on a CPU without cooling and heatsink you would see the performance drop and might damage the system. Now you might have got an idea about how important it is to cool a CPU, here are the two methods of CPU cooling. Check out which method works best with your goal.
Air Cooling a CPU.
The air cooling works by conducting the heat directly from the exposed side of installed CPU through a heatsink and blowing air to the sink by a Brush-less DC motor fan to cooling it down.
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| Air Cooler |
Pros of Air Cooling.
- Air cooling is straight forward in the mechanism so much that even kids could understand it, which makes the cost of CPU air coolers less and affordable.
- Unintentional cooling to RAM sticks which are placed adjacent to the cooler. This only happens with coolers on which the heatsink fan is mounted vertically to the motherboard.
Cons of Air Cooling.
- Air cooler are replaced by liquid coolers just becuase of the fact that liquid water conducts heat more efficiently than air.
- Sometimes CPU fans hinder the overall aesthetics of the system. For e.g. One build a RGB setup with installing the beautiful looking G skill Trident Z RAM and at the time of installation of CPU fan you come to know that it will hide the gorgeous look of the overall system.
Liquid/Water Cooling a CPU.
The mechanism of liquid is a bit complicated to that of air cooling but it does not involves any kind of rocket science so one could definitely understand the mechanism with some efforts. The liquid cooling we are talking about are AIO rather than custom liquid although both work in the same way. An AIO(All In One liquid cooler) has many internal components such as heatsink, pump and etc but externally you could see only the CPU block, Fans, Tubing and Radiator. |
| Liquid Cooler(AIO) |
Pros of Liquid/Water Cooling.
- It conducts heat generated by the CPU efficiently and regulates temperature very well.
- Does not hinder the overall look of the build but adds an amazing look to the build instead.
Cons of Liquid/Water Cooling.
- Because of the increase in number of component, the price increases dramatically too
- Unintentional cooling of other components does not happens since there no active fan near the components and the speed of the fans of the radiator is not also same to that of Air Coolers.
So that were the basic knowledge about the Air cooler and Liquid Cooler of CPU. These were the pros and cons of each of these. It is totally upto you about what you should buy and what fits your goal.
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How is "Unintentional cooling of other components" a bad thing? Name a component in a PC that needs to "Not be cooled"... :-)
ReplyDeleteI think you need to read it carefully. The Unintentional cooling of other components is included in the Pros list and not in the cons list. Thank you.
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