{"id":113581,"date":"2017-01-04T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113581"},"modified":"2017-01-04T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T15:23:17","slug":"craziest-ways-to-cool-your-gaming-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/113581-craziest-ways-to-cool-your-gaming-pc","title":{"rendered":"Craziest ways to cool your gaming PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether you’re a gamer or a professional using high-end hardware, keeping your components cool is vitally important for the health and efficiency of your gaming rig.<\/p>\n

Hardware enthusiasts have a variety of cooling options available to them, including standard air cooling, all-in-one liquid cooling solutions, or even custom open water-cooling loops.<\/p>\n

However, there are other solution to cooling your components, and they can be quite crazy:<\/p>\n

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Liquid Nitrogen<\/h3>\n

Used mostly by overclockers to keep temperatures low during heavy overclocking sessions.<\/p>\n

Usually, the exceedingly low temperatures provided by cooling a processor with liquid nitrogen allows overclockers to get a bit more clock speed from the silicon.<\/p>\n

It is not very viable for everyday cooling, as it requires constant oversight and monitoring in order to maintain a usable temperature.<\/p>\n

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Mineral Oil<\/h3>\n

This type of cooling is more popular among case designers and modders due to its unique aesthetic appeal.<\/p>\n

Cooling your components this way involves submerging your entire PC in a tank filled with mineral oil, which is not conductive and will not short out your components.<\/p>\n

The oil absorbs the heat from the components and is cooled, cooling the components in turn.<\/p>\n

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No fans<\/h3>\n

For those who get irritated by the sound of a fan no matter how slow or large it is, but don’t want to submerge their beloved gaming PC in a fishtank.<\/p>\n

If you attach a big enough heatsink (or vapor chambing cooling solution) you can cool components simply by dissapation and without the need for noisy fans or pumps.<\/p>\n

However, there is a limit to how effective this method is and space is the biggest factor. So if you want to cool your monster gaming rig, you’ll need a heatsink bigger than your case.<\/p>\n

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Too many fans<\/h3>\n

Of course, you can always go the opposite route and opt for cooling efficiency over noise levels and add more fans to increase airflow.<\/p>\n

By using a combination of decent heatsinks and powerful, numerous fans, air cooling can be at least as effective as liquid cooling.<\/p>\n

Some can go overboard however, like this modder<\/a><\/strong> who made his entire chassis out of standard desktop fans.<\/p>\n

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Now read: The coolest gaming hardware and gadgets of 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These PC cooling solutions will blow your mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":104823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6638,23731],"class_list":["post-113581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-cooling","tag-pc-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}