![]() Maintenance on custom loops represents an hour or two of work, depending on the exact design. The maintenance on sealed all-in-one coolers is non-existent since they aren’t designed to be refilled or opened. GPUs are trickier, but if you buy the right model, you can either find a water-cooler for it or just buy a card that’s water-cooled out of the box.Ĭustom water-cooling loops remain a niche solution, but it’s not hard to find professional system builders who will build a system with a custom cooling loop for you. You can simply buy a water cooler from a store, attach it to the rails that are probably already in your PC case and stick it on your CPU just as easily as a normal air cooler. Today it’s not hard to water-cool your CPU. Water Cooling Takes the Crown Phuwadach Pattanatmon/ One company, Coolbitts, does offer an immersion kit for high-end systems for an eye-watering $2450. Either way, we could not find many commercial kits on the web today. It’s not clear how many people bought such kits or whether they built long-term systems with them. Sadly, another company claimed that Puget’s oil-cooling kit infringed on their patents, and rather than pay royalties, Puget decided to stop selling the kits. Satisfied that it was feasible, you could (for a while) buy the kit from them. The company tested and developed several iterations of a mineral oil cooling system, running their first prototype for over a year to see what the long-term effects were. The best-known of these is the kit from the custom system builder Puget. With enough interest in the enthusiast market, there were actually some commercial mineral oil kits on sale. ![]() “Taking off” might be an overstatement, but it was an intriguing option if you wanted high-performance cooling in a system that could run 24/7. Interest in oil-cooled PCs started taking off among performance enthusiasts. Similarly, some magazine publications and YouTubers tried their hand at building these systems as well, with varying levels of success. You’ll still find forum posts all over the internet of these projects.
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