Noctua NH-C12P Heatsink Review
May 20, 2008 - Frosty No.2280
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Tower heatsinks may offer the best
performance of any heatsink style, but many computer cases can't accommodate +140mm CPU cooler heights. 'Down exhaust' or 'impingment' heatsinks are so named because the fan blows downward.
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OCZ Vendetta 2 Exposed Heatpipe Base Heatsink Review
May 13, 2008 - Frosty No.2279
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Vendetta 2 heatsink is decked out for stealth in a couple different ways; for starters the fan is held in place with vibration absorbing rubber fan posts. It also features three large copper heatpipes that make direct contact with the CPU.
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Cooler Master Hyper Z600 Passive Heatsink Review
May 08, 2008 - Frosty No.2273
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Cooler master's Hyper Z600 heatsink is a novel passive CPU heatsink for today's dual core processors. Its' star shape, widely spaced aluminum fins and prodigious number of silvery copper
heatpipes allow it to work without the benefit of a fan.
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Intel FCLGA4-S Core 2 Extreme Reference Heatsink Review
May 07, 2008 - Frosty No.2278
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Let's spend some quality time with Intel's newest 45nm Core 2 Extreme
class reference cooler and find out if it's better than every heatsink ever made, or not.
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Cooler Master Aquagate Mini R80 Watercooling CPU Heatsink Review
May 05, 2008 - Frosty No.2277
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Cooler master Aquagate Mini R80 is a self contained watercooling system designed for a broad range of Intel and AMD processors.
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Akasa AK-TT12-80 Thermal Adhesive Tape
May 04, 2008 - Frosty No.2276
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
If you've ever needed to re-attach a heatsink held in this manner, what are you to do? Thermal paste is sold in every computer store, but thermal adhesives?
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Thermolab Micro Silencer TLI-S Heatsink Review
May 03, 2008 - Frosty No.2274
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Thermolab's Micro Silencer TLI-S
heatsink uses a simple swagged aluminum fin and heatpipe construction, weighs a feathery 276 grams and comes with a pre-applied patch of 8 W/mK rated gray
thermal interface material.
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Thermolab Nano Silencer TLI-U Low-Profile Heatsink Review
May 03, 2008 - Frosty No.2275
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Nano Silencer TLI-U is ideally sized for 1U server chassis, nano formfactor PCs, car PCs and media center microATX-style cases. The entire TLI-U heatsink stands no taller than 45mm.
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SilenX iXtrema IXC-120HA2 Heatsink Review
May 01, 2008 - Frosty No.2272
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Looking for a new heatsink that works on either Intel or AMD processors? Good, say 'hello' to one of the new class of direct heatpipe contact
heatsinks hitting the streets.
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Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer Heatsink Review
Apr 30, 2008 - Frosty No.2271
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Today Frostytech is testing out one of
the new breed of direct heatpipe contact coolers that are sweeping the industry; the Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer heatsink.
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Noctua NH-U9B Low Noise Heatsink Review
Apr 28, 2008 - Frosty No.2270
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
This time around, Noctua nickel plate
all copper surfaces and bundle in the super quiet NF-B9 fan - and it's
not your average vaneaxial fan either.
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Xigmatek HDT-SD964 Exposed Heatpipe Base Heatsink Review
Apr 28, 2008 - Frosty No.2269
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Xigmatek HDT-SD964 is a potent CPU cooler because it puts four copper heatpipes in direct contact with the processor.
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ASUS Silent Knight II Heatsink Review
Mar 12, 2008 - Frosty No.2260
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Silent Knight II heatsink is almost entirely made of copper, the base and fins and heatpipes all utilize this thermally conductive metal.
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Auras CTC-868 Heatsink Review
Mar 11, 2008 - Frosty No.2261
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
What makes the Auras CTC-868 heatsink stand out is that it's split into thirds, with the two outer sections holding the integrated fans.
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Mil-Spec Aerospace Fan on Scythe Orochi Heatsink - Big just got bigger!
Mar 10, 2008 - Frosty No.2259
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
In this article Frostytech is going to have some fun with the Orochi and conduct a little experiment with the help of one very powerful mil-spec IMC Magnetics fan.
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Zalman ZM-MFC2 Multi-Fan & PWM Fan Speed Controller Review
Feb 19, 2008 - Frosty No.2251
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Zalman introduced its ZM-MFC2 multi fan speed controller last year at CES, and the reason we're reviewing it today are three-fold. For starters, the Zalman ZM-MFC2 digitally monitors four fans to +/- 10RPM and displays that data in real time.
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Asus Triton 77 Heatsink Review
Feb 12, 2008 - Frosty No.2249
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The ASUS Triton 77 heatsink is one of the latest processor thermal solutions to come from motherboard manufacturing giant ASUS. The heatsink is equipped with a Sunon MagLev 92mm vapo-bearing PWM fan which runs at a very quiet 2300RPM.
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Scythe Zipang SCZP-1000 Ultra Low Noise Heatsink Review
Feb 12, 2008 - Frosty No.2248
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
If you need a silent heatsink, and I do mean silent, the Scythe Zipang is
the next best thing to a passive block of aluminum (the only truely silent
option).
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Scythe Shuriken SCSK-1000 Heatsink Review
Feb 10, 2008 - Frosty No.2247
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Scythe Shuriken (SCSK-1000) heatsink features copper heatpipes, high density stacked aluminum fins, a copper base and a low profile 12mm thick 100mm Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) fan. All that in a package that is 65mm tall.
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Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme Heatsink Review
Feb 04, 2008 - Frosty No.2244
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Like the Ultra-120 that came before it, the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme applies fairly simple concepts to yield a well performing tower heatsink that doesn't have to generate much noise to
get the job done.
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Asus Triton 75 Heatsink Review
Feb 03, 2008 - Frosty No.2242
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Asus Triton 75 heatsink is intended to be used with a 120mm fan of your choice. The 395 gram heatsink is uses four 6mm diameter copper heatpipes to support a 120x120mm aluminum fin array above the CPU socket.
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Zalman CNPS8700 LED Low Noise Heatsink Review
Feb 03, 2008 - Frosty No.2243
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Got a noisy computer? If you've finally decided to take some action and replace a loud heatsink for something quieter, and cooler-running, take notice of the Zalman CNPS8700 LED heatsink.
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Auras SMF-660 TwinW Intel Heatsink Review
Feb 02, 2008 - Frosty No.2241
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Auras ship the SMF-660 heatsink with a 92mm PWM fan that scales in speed from 1200-2100RPM with compatible motherboards. At its fastest speed the fan is moderately audible.
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Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Exposed Heatpipe Base Heatsink Review
Jan 22, 2008 - Frosty No.2233
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Xigmatek HDT-S1283 heatsink features three heatpipes in direct contact with the top of the processor, resulting in one very potent CPU cooler. The technique is called heatpipe Direct Touch, and for today's class of heatspreader capped processors it's the only way to go.
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Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 Pro Intel Heatsink Review
Jan 21, 2008 - Frosty No.2234
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Enter the Arctic Cooling Alpine
7 Pro socket 775 Intel heatsink; a value oriented low noise extruded
aluminum heatsink for Intel processors (85W or less).
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Xigmatek MAC-S3501 Memory Heatspreaders Review
Jan 20, 2008 - Frosty No.2232
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
Only very recently has computer memory required heatsinks, and more often than
not this is because users are overclocking and over-volting RAM into the stratosphere.
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Zalman ZM-NBF47 Northbridge Chipset Heatsink Review
Jan 20, 2008 - Frosty No.2235
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Zalman ZM-NBF47 is a compact passively cooled aluminum chipset cooler that harkens back to Zalman's first CPU heatsink design.
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Sunon Waturbo Liquid Circulation Heatsink Review
Jan 03, 2008 - Frosty No.2227
Category: Cooling / Heatsinks
The Sunon Waturbo isn't your average heatsink, at its center
is a liquid core and a little magnetically coupled impeller to stir
things up.
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