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Discussion on: Side Project: Water Cooling My PC

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Ruth Evans

Your whole setup is gorgeous! I've been thinking about adding a water cooling system to mine, they're intimidating but they look so good. Does the PC still need fans or are they extra cooling?

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Moriah Maney

Thanks very much!

Yes fans are still required, but they work together with the water cooling system instead of being the only source of cooling. The fans at the front of my case pull air into the case to cool the liquid in the radiator while the fan at the back pushes out the hot air.

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Yury

do you realy need a rear exhaust fan? I always thought the radiator fans were enough

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Moriah Maney

Yepp! If you don't the heat will have nowhere to go.

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Yury

Ah, I figured out why I thought that. Most of the builds on Jayz channel have more than one radiator so he can use one rad as an exhaust and doesn't need more fans