Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors have the sort of performance that make people take notice. It’s undisputed performance hasn’t been completely tested in the mid-range so TechSpot went about comparing the Intel Core i7 920 / 860, Core i5…
Read more Mid-range Quad Cores Compared, results not so clear cut
If there’s one thing that’s true of most enthusiast motherboards it’s the fact that they all sport some form of high contrast color combination in order to draw your eye to their product and given how much surface area there…
The general idea behind the Intel Core i5 was to bring the company’s high-end Core i7 performance down to the mid-range level and cut some costs along the way. Oddly enough the changes they’ve made and improvements they’ve added, most…
It’s funny how quickly an idea catches on. It used to be that a cooler’s heatpipes were nicely tucked in between two slabs of copper from which it’d absorb its fair share of heat to transfer on to the fins,…
Read more Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus, going with the DHT act
Intel’s X58 Express chipset has been a solid partner to the company’s Core i7 processor for a good while now but in the hands of some experience engineers and, lets face it, performance crazed individuals things can be taken to…
Read more EVGA X58 SLI Classified, high-end multi-GPU gaming starts here
As much as we’d like to think every single one of our system builds are unique creations and should have the utmost in attention to detail you know for a fact they can’t all be super special but that doesn’t…
Read more Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 Pro Heatsink, taking the quiet route
There are heatsinks that do their cooling work with the oddball amount of work to put in yourself, usually that involves placing a bracket on the back of a motherboard in order to stiffen it up a bit and protect…
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
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
Today’s processors pump out enough heat to keep the top coolers busy enough without having to worry about the surrounding environment. Those beefy CPUs require equally beefy power regulation and chipsets that don’t get quite as much airflow attention.The Nexus…
Read more Nexus FLC-3000 CPU Cooler, the tower Heatsink gone and Toppled Over
While the outright processor performance tests will heavily favor Intel’s latest and greatest CPU when it comes to gaming things aren’t so clear cut. Many of today’s latest titles depend more on the graphics card in order to achieve higher…
Read more AMD Phenom II vs Intel Core i7, Gaming Value Tested
