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 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