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Cooling your system

Cooling your system

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Cooling your system

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- So previously we discussed the types of heat sinks, fans and liquid cooling that are used to lower component temperatures. Now we will look at keeping your system cool through even the most difficult of tasks. So let's go over here and take a look at our friend, the closed case once again. And the first thing I want to point out to you is that whoever built this case, it was a guy here, did a fantastic job with cable management. You can see that the cables are perfectly routed behind the motherboard and only come out where they are. Now this isn't where they are needed, excuse me. Now this is important because if you had cables just kind of shoved in there, we wouldn't have proper airflow that we need to actually cool the system. So keep that in mind. Proper cable management is actually a key component of keeping your system cool. Now we take a look at this, we have a bunch of fans in here and you can see we have two fans here and we have, you can't really see down here, but the PSU…

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