Air cooling has certain limitations due to the amount of surface area and the speed with which heatpipes can dump the heat to the fins attached to them. Thankfully it would seem heatsink manufacturers haven’t hit the limit yet. The Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B CPU cooler manages to cram in 6 heatpipes and a whole lot […]
Read more Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B CPU Cooler pushes air-cooling performance to new heights
You can trace back the high end of the cooling market to precious few companies, most notably Thermalright, who went all-out in their pursuit for performance and well a bit of the design flair what with all of that fancy nickel plating they indulge in. The Thermalright Venomous X CPU Cooler is another attempt at […]
Read more Thermalright Venomous X CPU Cooler aims for the high end once again
As with most cooling trends the high-end heatsink manufacturers latch on to a good idea and run with it, at least on their high end products. Thankfully some of them serve a purpose more than others. The Xigmatek Balder SD1283 puts the shiny anti-corrosive properties of nickel plating to good use. Tweaknews gives it the […]
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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 […]
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
Direct heatpipe contact was something of a simple solution that showed quite a bit of a performance gain when heatsinks with the technology popped up for processors…it’s about time they brought it to video cards. Benchmark Reviews has a look at the Xigmatek Bifrost VD1065 HDT VGA Cooler and its 5 heatpipes which will whisk […]
Read more Xigmatek Bifrost VD1065 HDT VGA Cooler does the direct heatpipe contact on your GPU
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
Choosing the proper heatsink to keep your processor’s temperature in check can be something of a chore given the insane number of cooling options available today which wildly range in price and performance. There are some simple rules to follow though mainly the more heatpipes the better and direct contact between the heatpipes and processor […]
Read more Thermaltake Contac 29 Heatsink, getting touchy feely with your CPU
