| Fri: 11.20.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Hardwareoverclock.com has reviewed the new Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler. The NH-D14 is a massive dual radiator cooler with six Heatpipes and an exquisite NF-P14/NF-P12 dual fan configuration. This cooler is an elite choice for the highest demands in premium quality quiet cooling. We have tested the cooler on our Core i7 920 and 860 cpus. More about the cooling results and Overclocking reserves you can find in the review.
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| Fri: 11.20.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Proper cooling is the cornerstone of any PC build. Without it, your machine can be wasted into a heap of smoldering silicon and metal. Luckily there is nothing that says you CPU cooler has to be a boring hunk of metal with a fan on top. GlacialTech puts a new spin on the CPU cooler with its UFOV51. Designed to look like a flying saucer, it adds a new style element to the PC cooling market. So is this cooler all show and no performance, or maybe something out of this world?
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| Thu: 11.19.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
So far we have found that Aerocool makes a pretty good product, we have tested out two of their LCD touch screen fan controllers and a bunch of their cases. From looking at some of their other products we have seen that they have a few CPU Coolers that also look quite promising, but today we are going to take a look at the Aerocool DCC-C900 CPU Cooler. With this little CPU cooler you receive nice compact design with heat pipes that make direct contact with your CPU which we have usually made quite a difference when it came to heat dispersal from the CPU. Let’s take a closer look and see how well this little guy really works:
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| Thu: 11.19.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"We tested the 3R System iCEAGE Prima Boss, a CPU cooler with tower design, four 8 mm U-shaped copper heatpipes and a 120 mm fan. Let's see how its performance compares to other coolers we have tested recently."
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| Wed: 11.18.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
We at Bjorn3D are going to be looking at a CPU cooler from Prolima today. Prolima is one of the new kids on the block when it comes to CPU coolers. This company awed us with the performance of their Megahalem CPU cooler (review can be found HERE). This time around we going to look at a Mega Shadow CPU cooler from Prolima, this CPU cooler shares a lot of the same designs as the Megahalem CPU cooler. The only real difference between these two CPU coolers is the Mega Shadow is fully nickle plated to add that extra bling to our computer components.
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| Wed: 11.18.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"We have seen quite a few Taiwanese manufacturers produce brilliant coolers recently – including the “Fenrir” from Taiwan based company Titan, and the Megahalems from the also Taiwan based company – ProLimaTech. My hopes are that the Evercool Transformer 4 will continue the trend of the Taiwanese based companies – and perform above similar European based competition whilst being price competitive."
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| Wed: 11.18.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Today we are going to talk not just about a graphics card cooler, but about an entire kit for fully-fledged and highly efficient cooling for extremely hot graphics accelerators.
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| Wed: 11.18.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Not everyone needs super-efficient and expensive CPU cooling solutions, which we test on a regular basis. On the contrary, most users would be quite happy with a decent replacement to their boxed coolers that would run quieter. Today we are going to talk about four solutions like that from Scythe Thermaltake and Xilence.
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| Thu: 11.12.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
The design of the case may constrain effective airflow strategies. For example, some home theater cases use several smaller (and therefore noisier) fans because of the small dimensions of the box. Other cases intended for overclocking may not have enough airflow, and would benefit from additional fans in strategic places. Upgrading your system’s cooling beyond the case’s original design may require physical modification, such as drilling holes and cutting the case.
But what if you could add a fan virtually anywhere without reaching for the Dremel? Sharkoon has an innovative product that not allows you to stick a fan anywhere while making your case more silent at the same time. This product is the Sharkoon Anti-Vibration Magnetic Fan Gasket.
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| Wed: 11.11.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"When compared to the Coolermaster Hyper TX 3 the better construction and larger heatpipes end up allowing the Skalli to perform better when the heat is on. By better construction, what I am talking about is the heatsink base. The Coolemaster looked like the heatpipes were just pressed into the aluminum base with no leveling of the heatpipes and base, while the Skalli looks as though the base and heatpipes were machined as one piece to make sure this was not an issue."
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| Wed: 11.11.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Evercool has learned something here. To perform up in the charts with
Arctic Cooling and Tuniq is truly impressive feat. While it didn't
necessarily out perform its top competitors, it did with no doubt run stride
for stride.
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| Tue: 11.10.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"Continuing our CPU cooler review series, this time we tested Mugen-2 from Scythe. It is a huge cooler, with five individual tower heatsinks, each one connected to the base by one U-shape copper heatpipe, with a 120-mm fan blowing air on them."
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| Mon: 11.09.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"It is nice to see that a heatsink manufacturer sticks behind their product. Performance heatsinks are usually a sizable expense and to have to purchase another heatsink just because you upgraded your system can be frustrating.
As I mentioned earlier in the review, Noctua does have an LGA1366 Mounting Kit and it is still available online or via Noctua, although it has been discontinued since the launch of the NM-I3.
If you do happen to own one of the listed Noctua heatsinks (listed in specifications) you would be doing yourself a great injustice if you didn’t take advantage of Noctua's free offer. Performance cooling comes at a price. If you can extend the life of your heatsink and continue to benefit from that cooling performance without having to upgrade each time you build a new system, the price suddenly doesn’t seem bad at all."
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| Mon: 11.09.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Most people don't give the fans in their PC any thought, even most enthusiasts worry about colors and led's not the noise level or performance. Noctua is in the minority when it comes to fan manufactures because they design their fans to be as quite as possible with no concern for LED's or special colors. Today I have the chance to test out their newest fan the NF-12B FLX. Similar to the NF-P12 that we tested before, but with a few updates. Let's take a look to see how their changes effected the fans performance.
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| Mon: 11.09.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
We've all seen them, we've all heard them, we all have them. Case fans make up the backbone of the computer hardware industry, they're the simple but vitally important component everyone overlooks -without them, computers would be reduced to smoldering lumps of silicon. So, with that said, today we have a review on Coolink's new SWiF2 series case fans.
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| Mon: 11.09.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"Evercool's Transformer 4 CPU cooler, with its dual 120mm fans, 8mm copper heatpipes and direct touch design should be a top performer in the CPU cooling market. Its enormous size alone would seem to insure excellent cooling. However, as we see in the testing, the T4 just isn't able to keep up with the competition."
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| Mon: 11.09.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
The Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme looks exactly that, extreme! This gigantic cube of a cooler comes packed with Core Contact Design heatpipes, a silent fan, a rheostat adjustment bracket and to be sure you get the last drop of performance out of the cooler, a small tube of Tuniq TX-3 Thermal Paste. Tuniq has obviously put a lot of thought into the Tower 120 Extreme Cooler design and today we plan on putting that design to the test.
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| Sun: 11.08.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Could one quietly dissipate 320 W of heat from a graphics accelerator? You will probably exclaim that this is impossible? Well, looks like in this case you would be wrong. Please meet a new extreme cooling solution from Arctic Cooling.
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| Sat: 11.07.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"Evercool's Transformer 4 CPU cooler, with its dual 120mm fans, 8mm copper heatpipes and direct touch design should be a top performer in the CPU cooling market. Its enormous size alone would seem to insure excellent cooling. However, as we see in the testing, the T4 just isn't able to keep up with the competition."
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| Sat: 11.07.09 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
“NZXT isn't quite known for their fan controllers, but you may have come across their original Sentry fan controller. NZXT has now released an updated, full color, touch screen Sentry 2 to blow its predecessor out of the water. The NZXT Sentry 2 supports up to five fans and five temperature readouts in only a single 5.25" drive bay. Some fan controllers support only 3 pin or only 4 pin connectors, but the Sentry 2 supports both! Read on further to see what else it has in store."
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