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
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…
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
Today’s processors pump out enough heat to keep the top coolers busy enough without having to worry about the surrounding environment. Those beefy CPUs require equally beefy power regulation and chipsets that don’t get quite as much airflow attention.The Nexus…
Read more Nexus FLC-3000 CPU Cooler, the tower Heatsink gone and Toppled Over
The piecemeal approach to testing CPUs can be confusing when you have to take into account previous reviews and performance numbers, not to mention newer platforms are always released so while the normal testing platforms that are used may stay…
You’d think that the renaming old products as new scheme would get quite a bit old but given the shere number of computer buyers out there and the general level of knowledge needed to keep up with the changes…well you’re…
AMD’s Phenom II has gotten the enthusiast crowd excited about the company’s platform again so SilentPCReview thought it’d be a good idea to take a look at the 790GX chipset that are conveniently affixed on a pair of motherboards from…
Read more Gigabyte/MSI 790GX Showdown
The general purpose behind a HTPC is a computer for playback of multimedia files on a home theater setup, in comes AMD’s Maui platform that could, one day, replace everything aside from your TV and speaker setup. SilentPCReview has a…
Read more AMD's Maui HTPC Platform, Replacing The Home Theater
Nothing spells excitement like a server processor refresh. AMD’s quad core Opterons have been the darling of the virtualization community, holding sizable performance leads over the competition in that category but not much else. In comes their 45nm die shrink…
AMD’s quad-core offerings have been playing second fiddle to Intel’s in most performance categories and they’re not exactly power usage friendly given they 65nm manufacturing makeup which also trails Intel’s 45nm process. Things are set to change though with AMD’s…
Read more AMD's "Deneb" an Enthusiast's Dream, or so the Rumor Goes
