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An aquacase originally is a personal computer-case with ready-to-use water-cooling-system. The word aquacase is composed of the Latin aqua (water) and English case (here PC-case). more...

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At least the following components must be contained in the case to make it an aquacase: pump, cooling-medium, pipes, cooling-body (for CPU, GPU, northbridge or southbridge), radiator. An aquacase does not contain any parts of a personal computer (this means, motherboard, CPU, dedicated graphics card, RAM, etc.) at the time it is bought. The sizes of aquacases cover the whole variety of PC-cases. In general the manufacturers focus on midi-tower and big-tower cases.

Components

An aquacase must at least contain a pump, cooling-medium, pipes, a cooling-body and a radiator. These component-names originate in the early water-systems. The usage of more components (such as flow-control, etc.) or the multiple usage of the basic components (such as two cooling-bodies - one for the CPU and one for the GPU) is very common. In today's wider class of aquacases one might define these components as follows:

Cases used

All aquacases share their ready-to-use delivering. The cases used to build-up an aquacase are not models from the manufacturer's standard-palette, which means one can not buy them without cooling-system. A case which can be bought with or without cooling-system is referred to as bild-in-water-cooling-case (or similar).

History

Aquacases are a result of the late 1990s modding-trend of cooling a personal-computer with water instead of conventional air-cooling-systems. A noise-reduction of the cooling-system is correlated with the usage of water instead of air, since an air-stream through the PC-case causes more noise than the air-stream through the water-cooling-system's radiator.

The original idea of building a water-cooled PC-system required knowledge of hydrodynamics and mechanics. To make water-cooling available for more than just modders, manufacturers of PC-cases introduced cases with build-in cooling-systems.

In recent times the class of aquacases not only includes watercases (as defined above), but also a kind of ready-to-use cooling-system which does not use air as primary cooling-medium. These can be heatpipe-systems, cryosis-systems and similar.

Examples

The Titan Robela Water Case is a watercase in the original meaning.

Dell's XPS 700 is not an auqacase. The XPS 700 is a complete PC-system and one can not call it an aquacase. The case contains a ready-to-use heatpipe-cooling-system, but it can not be purchased alone.

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