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When In Doubt, Stick A Giant Radiator Inside Your Computer

Liquid cooling, long the geeky masterwork of any PC gaming champion, has become simpler to set up, with pre-assembled, self-contained units available for any dummy in search of a cooler CPU. Maingear says their newest cooler frosts like a boss.

Using a sizable 180mm radiator with more fins and a bigger pump, the EPIC cooler achieves alleged cooler temps with less noise. Basically, it follows the same conventional wisdom of traditional air cooling—bigger stuff works better than smaller stuff and makes less noise. If the EPIC catches your fancy, there’s some bad news—the unit only comes with a full desktop system, starting at just under two grand. [Maingear via MaxPC]

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    Ha

    Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 3:36 PM

    So get a Corsair H50, H60 or H70. Them seem to be the ones that really got the self-contained liquid cooling started.

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      Theo Batchelor

      Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 4:19 PM

      Antec have a new one out also, cheaper and gets better temps than the Corsair models from what I’ve read.

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      Martin

      Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 4:24 PM

      got a H60 on order but maybe they’ll be crazy enough to bring out one which has a 200mm rad for top mounted fans (don’t seem to see 180mm often in cases)

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        ravennoir

        Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 5:18 PM

        Alot of newer cases are coming with 140 or 180 as standard

        Theres plenty of mods for the Corsair ones around on the net to allot bigger fans and rads

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        Martin

        Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 2:16 AM

        funny that when it appears to be from the exact same OEM, I’d call out any difference in performance between Corsair H70 and Antec KÜHLER H₂O 920 as bs

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