CPU coolers have come a long way over the past few years combining a few subtle, and not so subtle, design tweaks to the mix. Of course when all of the minor changes aren’t enough you can just throw brute force at the problem. The Noctua NH-U12P SE2 comes prepped with a pair of 120mm […]
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CPU coolers tend to vary in performance and quality quite a bit, what’s extremely expensive might perform a slight bit better but the cheaper option isn’t lagging behind too badly. Getting great cooling performance doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus offers up some impressive features, […]
Read more Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus cools your processor right quick
Testing a selection of coolers is more difficult than you might think. Besides having to carefully control the ambient temperature you’re going to dread mounting cooling hardware and their assorted brackets over and over again. Thankfully Hexus has done all of that so you don’t have to. They have a look at a number of […]
Read more Intel LGA 1156 Cooler Roundup gives you heatsink mounting nightmares
CPU heatsinks, for all of their impressive cooling prowess, tend to stick with the aggressive styling that’s likely to cut you if you keep staring at it. If you’re constantly in the Holiday spirit at least one company has you in mind. The Titan Fenrir X’Mas Edition CPU Cooler tops off their impressive Fenrir cooler […]
Read more Titan Fenrir X’Mas Edition CPU Cooler is festive year-round
Zalman is best known for their flower/radial finned coolers which provide amazing performance that’s still at the top of the air-cooling game despite many innovations from competitors. The Zalman CNPS10X Flex CPU Cooler is a…tower heatsink which hopes to compete with the high end of the market. HardOCP has thoroughly tested a unit: ZALMAN is […]
Read more Zalman CNPS10X Flex CPU Cooler takes a strange turn
Arctic Cooling is best known for their silent approach to…well chip cooling. The company’s Freezer line has been a good performer on the AMD and Intel processors of the past but has so far been out of the picture on the newer sockets. The Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 remedies that oversight and allows […]
Read more Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 Heatsink targets more sockets with its cooling power
When Zalman’s radial shaped heatsinks were first launched I was a bit skeptical on how well they would perform given their distinctive shape compared to the high-end competition of the time, needless to say many of the competitors are long gone and Zalman’s designs are still one of the top choices for keeping your CPU […]
Read more Zalman CNPS9900A LED contiues the high-end cooling tradition
In a world of tower heatsinks the simple way to go about things is to slap a fan on its side and be done with it, then again going with the old way of doing things would have us stuck with a simple slab of aluminum with a few fins carved out of it. Innovation […]
Thermalright’s Ultra Extreme heatsink has been one of the kings of high end air-cooling for quite some time now, more than capable of handling the heat output of the latest and greatest CPUs running with a decent overclock. HardOCP has taken a look at the newest C revision of the “TRUE” and compares it to […]
Read more Thermalright Ultra Extreme through the generations
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Read more Massive CPU Heatsink Comparison, Top Performers Tested
