Water cooling has finally begun to saturate the mainstream PC-market. As a result, technical writers focusing on products once made for H20-Enthusiasts and/or Overclockers must appeal to a much wider and diverse audience. In it's infancy water cooling was an esoteric hobby attracting a niche group of individuals, who were adept at improvisation based on necessity. Given the absence of any water cooling manufacturers per se, many early water blocks were hand-crafted (machined) by H20-Enthusiasts themselves. Pumps and other accessories were found at Aquarium suppliers, heater-cores from Automobiles scrap yards and case fans served as radiator fans. To large extent water cooling is still an esoteric subject since most people either slept or passed notes during their High School Physics classes. As CPUs shrink and transistor counts increase heat is the inevitable result, water cooling may replace air cooled heatsinks in the near future.
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Madshrimps
Feb 13, 2006, 02:56 PM
