| Thu: 09/02/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Noctua have high expectations to meet here at OC3D - Will they deliver yet again?
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| Thu: 09/02/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
In the market for the best CPU cooler for the buck? Cooler Master's V6 GT is the one to look out for. It features a great design that's both appealing to look at and efficient in doing its job, and despite it taking up less room over all compared to other mega-coolers out there, it offers exceptional cooling ability.
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| Thu: 09/02/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
“Today we have the opportunity to checkout Corsair’s new line of CPU coolers. Corsair has two different series of CPU coolers: the Air Series and the Hydro Series. We have a chance to check out the Air Series A50, which is mainly designed to out beat entry-level and stock CPU coolers. This is the first ever CPU cooler from Corsair that we’ve reviewed here at ThinkComputers, so let’s take a look further into Corsairs’ investments into CPU Cooling."
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| Thu: 09/02/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
A dual 120mm fan CPU Cooler with great performance, silent running, good looks and a price tag of $49? The latest Thermaltake CPU Cooler named Jing offers that much and then some.
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| Thu: 09/02/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"In many cases, mounting of a heat sink over the full board area is not necessary or practical, for example, when the RF circuit board has yet to be mounted on a metal holder or in a metal housing. A local heat sink integrated in the RF circuit board will then suffice to transfer heat away from the component to the underside of the circuit board and then to an external heat sink.For example, areas with thermal vias can dissipate the heat through the circuit board. If their thermal conductivity is not high enough, pieces of solid copper (Cu coins) are inserted in the circuit board. Copper has high electrical and thermal conductivity properties and can be readily integrated into circuit board designs. method is to embed the copper pieces in an RF multilayer circuit board. High-frequency circuits are often stacked up to form a so-called hybrid design."
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| Tue: 08/31/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"Equipped with an 80mm 'SilenX Effizio Series Quiet Fan', the SilenX EFZ-80HA2 heatsink makes for one compact little cooler, a heatsink small enough to use in a Media PC or compact computer enclosure. The heatsink is all but tiny compared to many of today's tower heatsinks, which is good because there aren't that many small CPU coolers to choose from anymore. Most remarkably though, the EFZ-80HA2 uses only two 6mm diameter copper heatpipes!"
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| Tue: 08/31/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"The good news is that the Corsair H70 is a hell of an improvement over the H50. This is not just a re-skin with a larger radiator. The whole assembly has been rethought in partnership with Asetek to deliver cooling performance on par with and better than most of the high-end after market cooling solutions available today. You get a larger radiator for more cooling "capacity", you get not one but two fans for use in a push-pull configuration and a new pump/waterblock assembly that combine to get within striking distance of the NH-D14."
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| Tue: 08/31/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"My first experience with Noctua's CPU cooler line was about a month ago when I had an opportunity to review their NH-U12P cooler. The NH-U12P left an amazing first impression - I could say without a doubt that it was the best silent CPU cooler I had reviewed to date. In fact, it's performance was even rivaling a lot of non-silent CPU coolers too. When the opportunity arose to check out Noctua's flagship cooler, the NH-D14, I was anxious to see what sort of numbers this monster sized cooler would give me, and could it really rival the NH-U12P for silence?"
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| Tue: 08/31/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
After a pretty lengthy break the Japanese Ninja cooler comes before us in its third reincarnation. We are also going to talk about other two new cooling solutions from Scythe: Rasetsu and Mugen 2 Rev B.
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| Tue: 08/31/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Thermalright is trying to regain its leading positions in the market by launching two new air coolers for central processors. Have they managed to accomplish their ultimate goal? Find out from our reviews!
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| Tue: 08/31/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
We continue discussing the duel of the best cooling products for processors. Today a cooler from Thermalright will be fighting against the solutions from Noctua.
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| Mon: 08/30/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
The GELID Icy Vision is an impressive GPU cooler equipped with 5 copper heatpipes, a sizable fin stack, dual 92 mm fans, and compatibility with some of the hottest graphics cards on the market including the Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTX 480.
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| Mon: 08/30/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Today we will compare two completely different approaches to cooling down your processor. First we have the Nexus FLC-3000 R2 cooler which represents the traditional air cooling way to get your processors temperature down. As the competitor we have CoolIT ECO A.L.C which we have reviewed lately. It represents a watercooling setup in the same price range as the Nexus. Let's have a look to see which one wins!
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| Mon: 08/30/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"I am pleased to say everything went well and I now have the pleasure of bringing you a near silent CPU cooling solution that delivers good performance and won’t hit that hard in the wallet when you go to buy one. What you may notice along the way is that this cooler looks oddly familiar. It should; aside from a few minor tweaks it is very similar to the XtremeGear HP-1216. The major difference of course is the noise levels. The XG used a loud fan to get its results, where SilenX chose a more quiet solution, or in their words, “Extreme Silent”.
Today we will be taking a close look at the SilenX iXtrema EFFIZIO EFZ-120HA4 Extreme Silent CPU cooler. I know that is a ton to remember when calling out this cooler by name, so from here on out I will refer to it as the EFZ-120HA4 to keep things short and simple. Hopefully, by strapping SilenX’s latest submission to our T.E.C.C. test system, I can tell you whether or not you need to remember the rest. Signs are already pointing towards the fact you might want to practice saying it. You might just end up buying one after this is all said and done."
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| Mon: 08/30/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"Thermolab's BADA2010 heatsink is equipped with one 95mm PWM fan mounted to the heatsinks' raw aluminum fins with permanently attached rubber vibration absorbing posts. At full speed the Protechnic MGT9212LR-W25 fan rotates at 2100RPM, the baseline is 1000RPM. Weighing 521 grams, Thermolab's BADA2010 heatsink stands 135mm tall and installs onto Intel socket 775/1155/1156/1366 and AMD socket AM2/AM3 processors. Forming the backbone of this heatsink are three 6mm diameter exposed base copper heatpipes."
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| Sun: 08/29/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
Frostytech receives a lot of
questions about a where such-and-such heatsink can be purchased, so today we're
listing a few north american online computer stores that have a decent selection of heatsinks for sale. European readers, please let me know what stores in your neck of the world are good when it comes to performance heatsink shopping.
The Specialty Shops - just heatsinks and cooling
 FrozenCPU.com
Feel free to contact Frostytech with your suggestions for North American based stores, AND European heatsink retailers.
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| Sun: 08/29/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"The A50 that we are going to be looking at in this review uses a tower style design with three tick copper heatpipes connected to an aluminum finned array. It does come with a relatively smaller cooling area than the A70 and only one fan, so the A50 is more a replacement for a stock cooler than an all out overclocking machine. Still, the cooler uses a tried and true design to offer the best cooling possible for those on a budget."
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| Sat: 08/28/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
This review will talk about two new processor coolers that differ only by their packaging and partially by included accessories.
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A roundup torture test of samples from every fanless power supply line in the marketplace instigated by the Seasonic X-400 Fanless, which cruised through 15 hours of full-load operation at nearly 60°C temperature in the "case". Which fanless PSUs can actually deliver rated power with virtually no forced airflow?
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| Fri: 08/27/2010 | Topic: Cooling / Heatsinks PermaLink |
"The cooling that is provided by the U3 is great, and the ability of the U3 to act as a laptop carrier is an added benefit. Plus, ergonomic advantages from being on an angle can make typing and using your laptop more comfortable. Overall, the U3 is a nice laptop cooler and if you need to transfer it often along with your laptop, it is a good choice."
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