Akasa

by Rafael Hernandez on April 15, 2010 · 0 comments

The cooling landscape seems to change every few months as manufacturers pump out newer and slicker designs which either one-up the competition or carve out a nice little price/performance niche for themselves. HardwareHeaven has a look at four heatsinks from Akasa, Gelid, Noctua, and Spire determining how well they perform at various fan speed levels: […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 24, 2009 · 0 comments

It’s not a knock on cases with see through side panels but the vast majority tend to limit the amount of cooling potential given the lack of side fan mounts which are becoming increasingly important in systems with MOSFETs, northbridges, and memory pumping out more and more heat. The Akasa Freedom Xone has more than […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Intel’s Core i7 chip has quite the performance advantage over its previous CPUs and the competition, unfortunately for most enthusiasts it pumps out quite a bit of heat in order to accomplish such performance feats. bit-tech has a look at…

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