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 Platypus PC Inc. is a custom PC builder specializing in high-end fully liquid cooled PCs. Our workstations are designed for both extreme performance and visual appeal. All our systems are fully water cooled, including many system components not seen in most custom computers. We are glad you are here and hope you spend a few moments looking around the site. As you'll quickly see, we offer products with a rare blend of extreme performance, complete customization capabilities, and customer support that is hard to find for the individual with exceptional and exacting computing needs. Platypus PCs set the standard in smooth, stable, and visually stunning, custom computers, liquid cooled PCs, and multiple monitor computers.
Our custom computers are designed and tested to provide a seamless computing experience. Our custom PCs are built around the idea that if you build right you can build to last. So many outdated computers end up in landfills and storeroom shelves and are becoming and environmental hazard. Our custom computers are built to perform beyond today's software boundaries, to provide the ability to operate software of the future. Additionally our custom PCs are built on the ASUS family of motherboard platforms, with the capacity to upgrade into the years to come.
Why a Water Cooled PC?
The obvious advantage of building a water cooled PC is the increased cooling capacity of your system. Today's high end systems generate a lot more heat that can be damaging to its components. Not just damaging, but heat can actually reduce the performance of your PC - slowing down processing, and causing intermittent errors that can affect your stored data. Liquid dissipates heat four times faster than air, keeping your components much cooler, and can extend their lifetime. The thermal conductivity of water is roughly 25 times that of air, giving liquid cooling a huge advantage in heat transfer over air-cooling.
Typically with a liquid cooled computer you may be looking to overclock your computer, which will provide increased performance gains. You can rationalize that the ability to overclock a component to a level that competes with a more expensive component such as a processor or video card; gives value back out of your liquid cooled setup. So while liquid cooling is more expensive, you can reason that your what you are paying for is the increase in performance of the components you are purchasing or already have. Furthermore, liquid cooling provides the capability to overclock the best parts available to even higher levels not attainable by an air cooled PC.
Another benefit of a liquid cooled PC is noise reduction. Today's manufacturers produce radiators designed and optimized for low speed fans providing high performance at very low noise levels. Such applications are commonly used in sound studios and other environments where noise level is a concern, as well as individuals who just prefer a quiet PC.
A positive side effect of eliminating all those fans is that it doesn't require pulling fresh air into the case to keep it cool. I say fresh air, but actually that air carries lots of dust with it that coats everything in the case. Anybody that has opened up their case after a year knows what that looks like. Liquid cooling your computer won't eliminate dust, but it will help reduce the time needed between cleanings. (Make sure to clean your computers regularly, air cooled or liquid cooled!)
The one benefit of a liquid cooled PC nobody really talks about is the visual appeal. If you're thinking about investing into a liquid cooled computer, you probably spend a significant amount of time on the computer, either working or for personal use. To spend that much time with something it makes sense to have something that is interesting to look at. Automobiles are essentially tools to get us from one location to another, for work or personal use, and you can see the value in having one that is visually pleasing if you're going to spend a significant amount of time using it. If you spend 8 hours or more starring at a monitor, it's nice to have something interesting to look at from time to time.
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