by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2011
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It’s a wonderful thing to see such attention to detail and a keen need for over the top cooling which some manufacturers seem to want to cram into their coolers. Thermalright’s Shaman GPU heatsink piles on 8 heatpipes that should instantly clue you in on the seriousness of this design but they take things even […]
Read more Thermalright Shaman takes a bit of the brute force approach to cooling
by Rafael Hernandez on September 30, 2010
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Graphics card coolers tend to have a difficult time when GPUs come out since their PCB designs can vary wildly making the best of designs a bit useless on new models. The Gelid Rev. 2 ICY Vision is now capable of cooling off Nvidia’s GTS 450 and GTX 460 graphics cards as well as almost […]
Read more Gelid Rev. 2 ICY Vision expands its repertoire
by Rafael Hernandez on May 20, 2010
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While the thought of adding a graphics card cooler to your shiny new gaming monster has probably run through all of our heads there’s a fine line between true performance and absolute failure. bit-tech rounded up 11 graphics card coolers and put them to the test with varying levels of success. Today’s graphics cards might […]
Read more Graphics Card Coolers Rounded Up found to be fiddly
by Rafael Hernandez on May 15, 2010
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If there’s one thing that will put a damper on your graphics card overclocking hopes it’s the retail coolers included on most of them since they’re barely able to handle the heat put out by normal clock speeds to begin with. Real World Labs has gathered six different aftermarket graphics card coolers and compared them […]
Read more VGA Coolers Rounded Up and put to the test
by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2010
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Jamming a ton of heatpipes and cooling fins on to a CPU heatsink is an easy way to get plenty of cooling potential, unfortunately graphics cards are somewhat constrained by how much space the cooler can take up…if you want to add more expansion cards that is. The Prolimatech MK-13 GPU Cooler somehow manages to […]
Read more Prolimatech MK-13 GPU Cooler provides more than enough cooling power
by Rafael Hernandez on December 3, 2009
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Direct heatpipe contact was something of a simple solution that showed quite a bit of a performance gain when heatsinks with the technology popped up for processors…it’s about time they brought it to video cards. Benchmark Reviews has a look at the Xigmatek Bifrost VD1065 HDT VGA Cooler and its 5 heatpipes which will whisk […]
Read more Xigmatek Bifrost VD1065 HDT VGA Cooler does the direct heatpipe contact on your GPU