How to choose water cooling products?
For water-cooled products, many users are distressed that the types of water-cooled products on the market are too complex, unable to distinguish, want to buy high-quality water-cooled products can only blindly chase higher. Now, take you to explore the material composition of water cooling products, teach you to distinguish what is the quality of water cooling products.
Firstly, the composition of water cooling system is simply understood.
1. Tightness. The water cooling system is a closed circulating heat dissipation system. It is necessary to be closed. Otherwise, water leakage will cause damage to the hardware in the chassis.
2. Recyclable. Because the water in the whole system acts as a "heat dissipation medium" role, the water in the whole system must be flowing, only in this way can the heat from the heating parts of the continuous export, otherwise there is no difference with boiling water.
Therefore, the necessary components of a water cooling system are: water cooling block (installed on the CPU and GPU), heat sink (to help the liquid heat dissipation), pump, and pipe connector (to connect the components to form the loop). Tanks are not necessary, the purpose is usually to facilitate the addition of water and exhaust, as well as more aesthetically pleasing.
Why do water cooling systems need fans?
The fan in water cooling system is one of the main reasons that some users resist water cooling.
Since both air cooling and water cooling require fans, water cooling is completely unnecessary. But we actually a little analysis, will find that this argument is untenable.
First of all, the water cooling system can be used without fans for auxiliary heat dissipation, but the installation of too much cold row is a great test of the compatibility of the chassis, and will also cause a high load (water resistance) on the pump, so the water cooling system is generally used with fans. However, in the water cooling system, the speed of the fan for auxiliary cooling and heat dissipation only needs to be set at about 600-800 RPM. The noise of multiple low-speed fans is almost unaudible when they are running.
The material of water cooling products
As with air-cooled products, many products are made of copper in water-cooled accessories. Copper not only has excellent thermal conductivity, but also has good rust prevention ability. Brass is usually used to make some joints and covers of water-cooled blocks in water-cooled accessories, while copper is used to make accessories responsible for heat conduction such as water-cooled blocks and radiators, because copper has better thermal conductivity than brass.
Of course, aluminum is also considered for water cooling blocks and radiators.
Note: Because the use of water cooling system environment is more complex, copper and aluminum will occur ionization reaction in the water cooling solution, and then produce precipitate blocking the water cooling block channel, so do not use copper and aluminum mixed in the water cooling system.
Acrylic texture transparent, hard, good visual effect, and LED lighting visual effect first-class, is now widely used in all kinds of water cooling products, such as cold head cover, water tank, pump cover, water cooling pipe. But in the installation of water-cooled products using acrylic, remember not to use too much force, otherwise it will lead to product cracking caused by water leakage.
POM has better strength and toughness than acrylic, basically will not be cracked by violence. POM material application of water-cooled accessories and acrylic are basically the same, in most cases can also be replaced with each other. However, the only disadvantage of POM material is that it is only black and white and opaque. Many players think that POM material is not as beautiful as acrylic, so the specific choice of water-cooled accessories of which material depends on the actual situation.
Throughout the past few years, water-cooled products have been hyped up, which is not unrelated to its high pricing. A set of high-end split water cooling products need players to spend thousands of yuan, some even tens of thousands of yuan (depending on the layout and scale of the waterway), so also caused some players to water cooling products also have a deeper misunderstanding, said that playing water cooling is "stupid money, pay IQ tax".
But for water-cooled products, in most cases, the product terminal price is a direct reflection of the material cost. Products want to get better temperature performance, which means the need to use better thermal conductivity materials, higher processing accuracy, and more excellent product design, which plays a decisive role in the product material.
