As much as we’d like to take the larger 120mm and 140mm fan mounts for granted there are still many cases out there that require the usage of smaller fans that aren’t often sought after because they tend to push much less air. bit-tech has gathered a number of 80mm and 92mm fans and tested […]
Read more Cooling Fans Roundup: cause you can never have too much airflow
Choosing the proper heatsink to keep your processor’s temperature in check can be something of a chore given the insane number of cooling options available today which wildly range in price and performance. There are some simple rules to follow though mainly the more heatpipes the better and direct contact between the heatpipes and processor […]
Read more Thermaltake Contac 29 Heatsink, getting touchy feely with your CPU
Well would you look at that cooler on the right (yes you can click the thumbnail, as you can click most of our thumbnails for a larger view). You’ll have to excuse GlacialTech for their weird design but that is…
Read more Spire DualStar SP680S1 & GlacialTech F101 PWM Coolers, cooling bliss
What you see before you is Asetek’s custom made liquid cooling kit doing its job on Dell’s new Alienware Aurora PC. That should go a long way to cooling off their gaming rigs without all of that extra fan noise…
Read more Dell chooses Asetek liquid cooling to…cool Alienware Aurora
If you go back far enough in chip cooling lore you’ll find the "orb" design to have been popularized by the good old ArctiCooler followed up by the core crushing power of the other orb designs that followed it. Thankfully…
Read more Themaltake MaxOrb EX CPU Cooler, bringing back the Orb
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…
In order to properly cool off a system’s processor you’re going to need a whole heck of a lot of surface area and a proper amount of airflow in order to deal with the heat. There are of course the…
Read more Thermaltake SpinQ VT Cooler, cylindrically vertical
It’s funny how quickly an idea catches on. It used to be that a cooler’s heatpipes were nicely tucked in between two slabs of copper from which it’d absorb its fair share of heat to transfer on to the fins,…
Read more Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus, going with the DHT act
As much as we’d like to think every single one of our system builds are unique creations and should have the utmost in attention to detail you know for a fact they can’t all be super special but that doesn’t…
Read more Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 Pro Heatsink, taking the quiet route
There are heatsinks that do their cooling work with the oddball amount of work to put in yourself, usually that involves placing a bracket on the back of a motherboard in order to stiffen it up a bit and protect…
There comes a time when a video card’s cooling is entirely inefficient, usually the moment most enthusiasts get their hands on the video card, or the stock cooler begins to wear down to the point that it requires replacing.The Coolink…
