Watercooling

Buying a Kit and What to remember before taking the plunge

Scan sell a decent range of kits, block and accessories to get you on the road to a watercooled system, from the fanless and nearly completely silent Zalman Reserator 1-PLUS which ships with blocks to support nearly all PC processors and a large majority of graphics cards, right the way to things like Terratec's H20 2010 standalone system for watercooled graphics.

Accessories like Swiftech Coolsleeves for preventing tubing kinks, hard drive coolers from Asetek and replacement water pumps are available too from the web store, or as a pickup item from the Scan premises.

We primarily stock hardware from Asetek and Swiftech in terms of full kits with accessories to match and blocks to compliment those kits if you want to take things a bit further.

What to remember before taking the plunge

If you're considering watercooling there's a few things to remember. Primarily it's a means for more effective cooling with watercooling systems able to deal with many times the heat output of even the most effective aircooled heatsinks. Radiators with heat capacity in the hundreds of watts make a well-done watercooled system much more able to deal with the heat of a modern PC system.

They can also do that while remaining quiet, giving you more cooling power at lower noise levels than you can realistically hope to obtain with any air cooled system. Overall ambient temperatures inside the chassis are lower, giving longer life to those things internal to your PC at the same time. So a considered watercooling system for a PC is a series of large benefits to the PC in an overall sense, from heat to noise to longer life.

Other than expense, there's no real reason to not consider watercooling as an evolution of your PC system. It's not hard to assemble or maintain and the benefits from the outlay of time and money are large and obvious.