Does the CPU water cooling radiator have a large effect?

CPU radiator

CPU water cooling radiator refers to the use of liquid in the pump driven by the forced circulation to take away the heat of the radiator, compared with air cooling has the advantages of quiet, stable cooling, small dependence on the environment.

The heat dissipation performance of water-cooled radiator is directly proportional to the flow rate of cooling liquid (water or other liquid), and the flow rate of cooling liquid is related to the pump power of refrigeration system. And the heat capacity of water is large, which makes the water cooling refrigeration system has a good thermal load capacity. This is 5 times that of an air-cooled system, resulting in an immediate benefit of a very flat CPU operating temperature curve. For example, a system using an air-cooled radiator may experience thermal spikes in a short period of time or may exceed the CPU warning temperature when running a program with a high CPU load, while a water-cooled cooling system has much smaller thermal fluctuations due to its high heat capacity.

1.From the principle of water cooling, it can be divided into two categories: active water cooling and passive water cooling. Active water cooling in addition to all the accessories with water cooling radiator, in addition to the installation of cooling fan to assist heat dissipation, so that the cooling effect is not small to improve, this water cooling method is suitable for the use of DIY overclock-fever players. Passive water cooling does not install any cooling fan, only rely on the water cooling radiator itself to heat, at most, increase some heat sink to assist heat dissipation, the water cooling method is worse than the active water cooling effect, but can be completely silent effect, suitable for mainstream DIY overclocking users.

The real advantage of all-in-one water cooling is that it handles CPU wattage much better than any air-cooled radiator and is not affected by the high temperature inside the chassis. If used for a low power CPU, the water-cooled radiator is not much better at cooling the CPU than a good air-cooled radiator. But when you're using high-end or extremely overclocked cpus that generate a lot of heat, even a small DIY water cooling system will keep the CPU temperature pretty low.

2. From the installation mode of water cooling, it can be divided into built-in water cooling and external water cooling. For built-in water cooling, mainly composed of radiator, water pipe, water pump, enough water, which is doomed to most of the water cooling system "volume" is large, but also requires sufficient space inside the chassis. As for the external water-cooled radiator, the cooling water tank and water pump and other working components are all arranged outside the chassis, which not only reduces the occupation of the space in the chassis, but also can obtain better cooling effect.

Role

As we all know, high temperature is the enemy of integrated circuits. High temperature will not only lead to unstable operation of the system, shorten the service life, and even some parts may be burned. The heat that causes the high temperature does not come from outside the computer, but from inside it. The role of the radiator is to absorb this heat, to ensure the normal temperature of the computer parts. The type of radiator is very much, CPU, display card, motherboard chipset, hard disk, chassis, power supply and even cd-rom drive and memory will need radiator, these different radiator is not mixed, and the most common contact among them is the CPU radiator. Subdivided heat dissipation, can be divided into air cooling, heat pipe, water cooling, semiconductor refrigeration, compressor refrigeration and so on.