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By Kayin at 2010-08-31 10:52
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Today on the bench I've got Xigmatek's Balder CPU cooler, one of their HDT (Heatpipe Direct Touch) series. Faced with some of the hottest and fastest processors available today how does it fare? We'll find out as we strap it to something and try to blow it up!
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By Oneslowz28 at 2010-07-27 11:21
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By Charles Gantt ( Oneslowz28 )
Cooler Master is world renowned for their CPU coolers, and for years their high performance coolers have been a staple in the enthusiast community. In the last few months we have seen the release of some very fast and very hot CPUs. Most namely Intel’s Core i7 980x and AMD’s Phenom II X6 line. With these hot CPUs there arose a need for extreme air coolers and today we are going to take a look at one of Cooler Masters answers to this problem… Keep reading…
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By blueonblack at 2010-06-11 05:40
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CPU coolers. We’ve all got to have them, we’re all familiar with them and their purpose, and recently it seems that just about all of the coolers on the market do their job at least adequately. Buy it, bolt it on (usually without even having to apply thermal compound), plug it in and you’re done. Your CPU is kept within safe operating temperatures. We’re not here because we work like that though, are we? Today we’re going to take a look at the largest CPU heat sink available to date: the NH-D14 from Noctua.
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By Trace at 2010-04-12 23:29
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In the lab today is Prolimatech's new socket 1156/1366 air cooler dubbed "Armageddon." Its competition is Intel's stock cooler and Cogage's Arrow cooler. The Armageddon cooler features a unique design on the top of fin stack, which would feel at home in any modded computer case. But that isn't today's question. Today's question is how does it perform? Read on to find out.
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By Trace at 2010-04-05 20:50
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Cogage has once again raised the bar for function and design with their new Arrow CPU cooler which supports sockets 1366, 1156, and 775. Released to deal with the massive amounts of heat that the i7 produces, it sports backwards compatibility for even the hottest running socket 775 CPUs. I will be putting this cooler through the firing squad and see how it performs. Against it will be other leading air coolers and Intel’s stock heat sink solution. Read on to find out how it stacks up.
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By slaveofconvention at 2010-04-01 05:22
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By Colin M. Ormsby (slaveofconvention)
Every now and then, we get the opportunity to review something that little bit special. Something brand new or even pre-release. Kayin recently took a pre-release Ultra 1050w PSU prisoner in his lab and this time it's my turn; the victim is the Thermaltake Frio cooler. The Frio is Thermaltakes brand new top-of-the-line air CPU cooler. Read on and see if it stands up to scrutiny as well as the aforementioned PSU did...more...
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By blueonblack at 2010-01-04 23:17
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Processors get hot. It's the nature of the machine. We all like speed, but with that speed comes heat, and as a rule the faster it is the hotter it gets. Lots of companies offers a lot of different ways to deal with this heat, from the mundane to the exotic, but unfortunately when the build is done the budget often doesn't leave room for a decent cooling solution. Enter the Spire Thermax Pro...
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By Kayin at 2009-12-07 06:18
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Today I've the Prolimatech MegaShadow on the bench. It's real heavy metal, for real heavy cooling-but how hot can it handle? I'm throwing the new and improved tech bench at it, and we'll see if it turns out to be a Megatron, or if there's something more... Prime about it! ....More here
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By Oneslowz28 at 2009-11-03 11:22
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This week I reviewed the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus, a medium sized tower style CPU cooler that will mount to all of the current sockets from both the AMD and Intel camps. The Hyper 212 Plus is the middle child in Cooler Master's Hyper CPU cooler series. However being the middle child means nothing in the world of CPU cooling as this midsized tower offers enough punch to cool the hottest processors out there.
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By Oneslowz28 at 2009-09-26 12:18
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There was a time when it was tough to keep a single core CPU cool. Today with the average CPU containing anywhere between two and four cores there is increased need for bigger and better CPU coolers. That is just what Cooler Master has delivered. Today I will be reviewing a Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU cooler, so keep reading and check out the results at the end.
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By Kayin at 2009-09-24 06:09
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Cooljag has graced us with one of their new coolers, the Falcon IV. We'll attempt to subject it to the most torturous thing in my lab-does it survive, or do I fry my bacon with it now? Keep reading, the verdict may surprise you-it surprised me, to be sure!
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