Netbooks have been one of the largest growing segments in the portable computer market givent heir small form factor and long battery life but they do lack any sort of grunt if you’re trying to do something remotely taxing on…
Read more Dell Inspiron 11z, trumps netbooks…sorta
There comes a time when a video card’s cooling is entirely inefficient, usually the moment most enthusiasts get their hands on the video card, or the stock cooler begins to wear down to the point that it requires replacing.The Coolink…
Intel’s Core i7 lineup isn’t only limited to the LGA1366 platform, oh no, it’s being brought into the LGA1156 fold along side the Core i5 lineup. The company’s Core i7 870 will be one of the first chips to be…
Zalman is well known for their refined approach to cooling. The company has a knack for making low-noise heatsinks, which they’ve become extremely popular for, as well as their radial designed coolers which keep people coming back for more.They’ve changed…
Read more Zalman's CNPS10X Extreme, huge chunk of cooling goodness
A processor’s Level 3 cache is a neat trick in order to improve a system’s performance. With more cores being piled on to processors a unified cache would be difficult to manage given that each core needs access to an…
Read more Intel Becton / Nehalem EX Sports Ring Bus, insane cache bandwidth
Heatsinks depend on quite a few tricks in order to get the best possible performance out of the materials at hand and when you’ve hit those limits you simply go a size or two bigger.Then again that sort of effort…
Read more Titan's TTC-NC05TZ/NPW "SKALLI", maximizing cooling with massive heatpipes
You know the deal by now…solid state drives are fast, much faster than the conventional rotating platters of the past, but not all of them are created equal. There are differences in the differing controllers and flash chips they use…
The high end of the market is jam packed with insanely powerful hardware destined to make your gaming experience a richer, and quicker, one at a rather large expense. Thankfully today’s mid-range offers more bang for the buck than ever…
Read more Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770, Mid-Range Gaming on the cheap
The general idea behind most CPU coolers nowadays is to pack in as many heatpipes as possible to pull heat away from the base on to a a slew of aluminum fins for the fan to dissipate, a look at…
Read more Titan Fenrir CPU Cooler, a huge chunk of cooling potential
In the forward march of progress there’s very little that can withstand the pressure of genuine innovation and improvement.That said there are still those that cling to their old hardware because, well, it still works pretty damn well so it…
Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 AGP, yes you read correctly
