How to water cool your PC

In this guide, we'll show you how to water cool your PC. The benefits if you build a water cooled PC with a custom loop compared to air cooling are numerous. For a start, PC water cooling gear obviously looks fantastic, and you get to pick your own coolant to color-match it with the rest of your PC too. Your PC is going to turn far more heads if it's water-cooled than if it just has a large air cooler on top of the CPU. On a less superficial level, the extra cooling capacity you gain by using large radiators, and the increased heat capacity of using coolant compared to air, means that fans on radiators can run much more quietly, yet still offer the same or better cooling as a large air cooler. In this guide, we'll take you through the basics of how to get started, the components you need, and how to put it all together. At Custom PC, we've been modding PC cases and components since 2003, giving us loads of experience in the art of customizing your system to make it your own. We know exactly what tools you need and which methods work best.