Heatsinks & Coolers

by Rafael Hernandez on January 22, 2010 · 0 comments

CPU coolers tend to vary in performance and quality quite a bit, what’s extremely expensive might perform a slight bit better but the cheaper option isn’t lagging behind too badly. Getting great cooling performance doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus offers up some impressive features, […]

Read more Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus cools your processor right quick

by Rafael Hernandez on January 11, 2010 · 0 comments

Notebook coolers tend to be hit or miss in their designs, many failing to take into account that yes you do indeed like to travel with your notebook so a portable cooling solution is very interesting to me thank you very much. The TITAN TTC-G9TZ sports a half sized base that houses its USB powered […]

Read more TITAN TTC-G9TZ Notebook Cooler takes up less space…cools your laptop

by Rafael Hernandez on December 30, 2009 · 0 comments

Putting together a liquid cooling system requires some careful planning and the right selection of components which will properly cool your hardware…a maddening array of choices await! Or you can go with the Larkooler Liquid Cooling Kit which supplies processor, GPU, northbridge, and mosfet cooling blocks and all the necessary gear to get it going. […]

Read more Larkooler Liquid Cooling Kit attempts the whole-system cooling approach

by Rafael Hernandez on December 18, 2009 · 0 comments

Testing a selection of coolers is more difficult than you might think. Besides having to carefully control the ambient temperature you’re going to dread mounting cooling hardware and their assorted brackets over and over again. Thankfully Hexus has done all of that so you don’t have to. They have a look at a number of […]

Read more Intel LGA 1156 Cooler Roundup gives you heatsink mounting nightmares

by Rafael Hernandez on December 17, 2009 · 0 comments

CPU heatsinks, for all of their impressive cooling prowess, tend to stick with the aggressive styling that’s likely to cut you if you keep staring at it. If you’re constantly in the Holiday spirit at least one company has you in mind. The Titan Fenrir X’Mas Edition CPU Cooler tops off their impressive Fenrir cooler […]

Read more Titan Fenrir X’Mas Edition CPU Cooler is festive year-round

by Rafael Hernandez on December 15, 2009 · 0 comments

Zalman is best known for their flower/radial finned coolers which provide amazing performance that’s still at the top of the air-cooling game despite many innovations from competitors. The Zalman CNPS10X Flex CPU Cooler is a…tower heatsink which hopes to compete with the high end of the market. HardOCP has thoroughly tested a unit: ZALMAN is […]

Read more Zalman CNPS10X Flex CPU Cooler takes a strange turn

by Rafael Hernandez on December 3, 2009 · 0 comments

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

by Rafael Hernandez on November 23, 2009 · 0 comments

Arctic Cooling is best known for their silent approach to…well chip cooling. The company’s Freezer line has been a good performer on the AMD and Intel processors of the past but has so far been out of the picture on the newer sockets. The Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 remedies that oversight and allows […]

Read more Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 Heatsink targets more sockets with its cooling power

by Rafael Hernandez on November 10, 2009 · 0 comments

When Zalman’s radial shaped heatsinks were first launched I was a bit skeptical on how well they would perform given their distinctive shape compared to the high-end competition of the time, needless to say many of the competitors are long gone and Zalman’s designs are still one of the top choices for keeping your CPU […]

Read more Zalman CNPS9900A LED contiues the high-end cooling tradition

by Rafael Hernandez on October 28, 2009 · 0 comments

In a world of tower heatsinks the simple way to go about things is to slap a fan on its side and be done with it, then again going with the old way of doing things would have us stuck with a simple slab of aluminum with a few fins carved out of it. Innovation […]

Read more Zaward Gyre Flow Heatsink takes a different route

by Rafael Hernandez on October 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Thermalright’s Ultra Extreme heatsink has been one of the kings of high end air-cooling for quite some time now, more than capable of handling the heat output of the latest and greatest CPUs running with a decent overclock. HardOCP has taken a look at the newest C revision of the “TRUE” and compares it to […]

Read more Thermalright Ultra Extreme through the generations