In the recent year, have you notice that in the field of DIY hardware, CPU liquid cooler is a trend of getting more popular. And you will know by google that many companies have launched CPU water coolers, including Corsair, Cooler master, AZZA, ENNERMAX, thermaltake, MSI, Goldenfield, Gigabyte, Apexgaming, ect.
Why the CPU cooler liquid become a trending?
There are two main reasons as below for your reference.
ALL IN ON STRUCTURE
First, the complete set of integrated design solutions to accelerate the popularity of CPU water cooler. CPU liquid coolers use a water-cooling head, tube, row, fluid, water pump all-in-one design, it is easy for consumers’ shopping and installing.
AFFORDABLE PRICE
Second, lower price of CPU water-cooled coolers continue to emerge. The current domestic market in China are selling many styles with costs USD30-USD100 CPU water-cooled coolers of size 120/360.
What is the significance of upgrading from air-cooled to water-cooled?
From the trend of CPU liquid cooler popularity, the high-end DIY hardware market is still very strong. For players who want to get into CPU water cooler business, several issues that are necessary for your consideration.
I think the main reason, that is to feel the excellent cooling performance!
Of course, the psychological factors are objective. If your machine is installed with water cooling, you will feel that your machine is amazing, very cool! awesome!
What are the shortage of CPU water cooler VS CPU air cooler?
Well, compared to air cooling, what are the shortcomings of water cooling? To be honest, many.
For example, compared to air-cooling, water cooler is noisier in operation. This is because air-cooled has only one source of noise, the fan, while water-cooled has two sources of noise, one is the fan and the other is the pump. More noise sources, so that the water-cooled in operation had to produce more noise. But technical team update day by day from design and creation.
For example, compared to air cooling, the process of installing water cooling is more complicated (as is disassembling it). Also, water cooler is more demanding on the case,which part of the case to install the water-cooling row on, this is a water-cooling players can not avoid the problem! Therefore, people who want to play water cooling, your case really can not be too substandard.
What is the difference of performance between style single row and double row?
CPU liquid cooler has a single row or double row, how big is the performance between them?
CPU water cooling coolers are commonly divided by the number of water cooling rows. In the current domestic market, single-row and dual-row CPU water cooling coolers are the most common. To continue the breakdown, common CPU water cooling coolers on the market can be divided into single-row single fan, single-row dual fan, and dual-row dual fan, and they are graded from low to high to meet the different needs of E sports gamer.
Perhaps some players who want to get into CPU water cooling will ask, single-row and dual-row, how big a difference in performance between these two types of CPU water cooling coolers? On this issue, I just rely on a mouth has been unable to say clearly, you have to come up with some data to do.
In the following article, I will take two products from brand Enermax to explore in detail the different performance between single-row products and double-row products.
Two types of ENERMAX CPU water coolers, one is the LIQTECH 240 and the other is the LIQMAX 120S. The LIQTECH 240 is a high-end CPU water cooler with a dual-row, dual-fan design, and the LIQMAX 120S is an entry-level CPU water cooler with a single-row, single-fan design.
Thermal performance review.
Water cooling CPU cooler, and even with an entry-level product like the LIQMAX 120S with a single-row, single-fan design, it still has great cooling capabilities.
If you don’t care about silent performance, then the difference in cooling performance between single-row CPU water cooling and dual-row CPU water cooling is of little practical significance for current mainstream CPUs!
Quiet performance review.
In the best silent mode, the LIQTECH 240 is really quiet when running and deserves to be a high-end product. On the contrary, LIQMAX 120S, this entry-level CPU water cooler has a noisy pump, which directly affects the overall silent performance of the product.
In the strongest cooling mode, the LIQTECH 240 and LIQMAX 120S are both very noisy operation.
So coolerslzx’s view: good silent performance is the big selling point of high-end CPU water cooling cooler.
Conclusion
For most players, single-row single-fan entry-level CPU water cooling performance is good enough. So, what is the significance of the existence of high-end CPU water cooling with double rows and double fans? The Coolerslzx’s points is good silent performance. The benefit of the dual-row, dual-fan design is that it allows the fan to maintain excellent cooling performance at low speeds.
What type of CPU liquid cooler should you buy? Just as needed for your shopping.
