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 […]
Read more Xtreme Gear HP-1216B CPU Cooler piles on the heatpipes
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 […]
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…
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
With increasing amounts of power being crammed into smaller spaces it’s tough finding a heatsink that won’t tower right on through your slim case’s side panel. Thermaltake thinks it has a solution to that problem for you.The company’s MeOrb heatsink…
Read more Thermaltake MeOrb Heatsink, Low Profile LGA775 Cooling
To the common PC user one heatsink will look just like any other heatsink, then again the normal PC user doesn’t go mucking about the insides of his PC. Performance enthusiasts are always on the lookout for something to make…
Read more CPU Heatsinks Compared AKA That's A Lot Of Heatpipes
Trying to put together a computer that’s eco-friendly, or low noise, means you’re going to have to give up a bit of performance for quite a bit of power saving. Case in point are the Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200S…
Read more Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200S/Q9550S, Quad Cores Go Low-Power
Living out your days waiting for your computer to finish up its workload? Having trouble keeping up with the enemy in the latest games? If you’re still toiling under the constraints of a dual core, or *gasp* single core*, processor…
