As far as air cooling is concerned the more heatpipes you have on a heatsink the better it can dump heat onto its mass of fins, normally one wouldn’t expect much out of a cooler with three heatpipes. Zaward Vapor 120 CPU Cooler seems to perform like a champ despite its low heatpipe count, although […]
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Most budget level heatsinks skimp on the features in order to get their price point in at where they need it to be. While they’re a great alternative to the stock heatsinks included with most processors they can’t exactly touch the performance of high-end coolers either. The Xtreme Gear HP-1216B CPU Cooler tosses in five […]
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Just because you see a whole host of advanced features on a motherboard doesn’t mean it’s tuned for the best performance possible. Design decisions that skimp on complexity can make you regret your high-end motherboard purchase. The ASRock X58 Extreme3 Motherboard prides itself on offering the fastest interface connections for its SATA3 and USB3 chips […]
Read more ASRock X58 Extreme3 Motherboard aims to take the high-end crown
Tower CPU coolers tend to offer very good performance but when it comes time to cram them into the slimmer dimensions of a HTPC case or other small enclosure makes them an impossibility some times. The Cooler Master Vortex Plus CPU Cooler brings back the old style cooling design while incorporating some newer techniques such […]
Read more Cooler Master Vortex Plus CPU Cooler keeps it on the slimmer side
High end CPU coolers tend to go for quite a bit of heat dissipation power so you’re bound to see quite a few heatpipes and plenty of fins to go along with them but the ever increasing trend is towards multi-fan setups to get some real airflow through its fins. Thermaltake’s Frio CPU Cooler possesses […]
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
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…
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…
Intel has a good thing going with their Core i7 lineup of chips. It’s the fastest consumer grade processor available and absolutely tears through any application you throw its way. Of course the company’s planned Core i5 series may…
Read more Intel Prepping 6 Core LGA1366 Nehalem
