Take a moment and imagine your dream PC. You’ve got the latest processor jacked into the best Z270 motherboard, four GTX-1080’s in quad-SLI and even the most over-clockable DDR4 RAM, topped off with the liquid cpu cooler. Finally, you’ve spent the last couple days tweaking your overclock to achieve peak performance. Even after all this …
Part of the fun of building your own PC is making a rig that is visually stunning, in addition to practically powerful. A blank, slate-gray brick without any lights hardly looks like a top-of-the-line gaming PC compared to one with spinning and glowing fans. Glowing fans, in particular, can make your PC look like a …
Improving the performance of your computer is easy. Just open your settings, tweak a few settings, and enjoy a faster computer! If you’re scoffing at that sentence, you’re likely familiar with how challenging it can be to get your computer to run at its peak. The thing is, most computers have no problem running well …
When it comes to the functionality of your desktop computer, one of the most important factors is its ability to remove heat from the processor. Heat is an unavoidable byproduct of high clock speeds, but when the heat produced exceeds your computers capacity to remove it the motherboard will be forced to throttle your entire …
Liquid cooling has always been considered the gold-standard of CPU cooling. The performance goes well beyond what’s possible with air, and superior technologies such as phase-change are limiting both in price and accessibility. That being said, liquid cooling isn’t always beginner-safe either. With a custom water loop, one bad connection could drench your brand new …