Everything you should add to a PC water-cooling loop shopping list

Here's your PC water-cooling loop shopping list.

I've been water-cooling PCs for around seven years now. I've gone through the troubles of learning the craft, perfecting it, and creating some truly beautiful machines. While it does involve a considerable cost upfront and the need to traverse a steep learning curve, the end result truly is something to behold as you see your craftsmanship in action.

Water-cooled PCs are not only a joy to gaze at, but they also bring some notable benefits over traditional air-cooled systems with nothing but heatsinks and fans. Firstly is noise. Instead of having more than 8 fans throwing air around in different directions within your chassis, a water-cooling loop requires but a few blowers, especially when attaching both the CPU and GPU to the loop.

This lowers the overall noise generated from within the PC case. Water-cooling also allows for more heat to be transferred to the loop and if you have a beefy radiator, it's possible to cram high-end (an...