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by Rafael Hernandez on September 25, 2009 · 0 comments

Well would you look at that cooler on the right (yes you can click the thumbnail, as you can click most of our thumbnails for a larger view). You’ll have to excuse GlacialTech for their weird design but that is…

Read more Spire DualStar SP680S1 & GlacialTech F101 PWM Coolers, cooling bliss

by Rafael Hernandez on September 19, 2009 · 0 comments

If you go back far enough in chip cooling lore you’ll find the "orb" design to have been popularized by the good old ArctiCooler followed up by the core crushing power of the other orb designs that followed it. Thankfully…

Read more Themaltake MaxOrb EX CPU Cooler, bringing back the Orb

by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2009 · 0 comments

The big names in the cooling industry used to be the ones to go for when you needed to top performing products but, interestingly, many smaller manufacturers are coming up with designs that are just as effective and on the…

Read more Thermolab BADA, inspired cooling performance

by Rafael Hernandez on September 9, 2009 · 0 comments

In order to properly cool off a system’s processor you’re going to need a whole heck of a lot of surface area and a proper amount of airflow in order to deal with the heat. There are of course the…

Read more Thermaltake SpinQ VT Cooler, cylindrically vertical

by Rafael Hernandez on September 6, 2009 · 0 comments

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

by Rafael Hernandez on September 3, 2009 · 0 comments

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

by Rafael Hernandez on September 2, 2009 · 0 comments

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…

Read more Scythe Mugen 2 CPU Cooler, cooling goes overboard

by Rafael Hernandez on August 31, 2009 · 0 comments

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…

Read more Coolink GFXchilla, alternative graphics cooling

by Rafael Hernandez on August 31, 2009 · 0 comments

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

by Rafael Hernandez on August 28, 2009 · 0 comments

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

by Rafael Hernandez on August 27, 2009 · 0 comments

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