There was an era when thermoelectric cooling was somewhat popular with the enthusiast crowd because of its ability to drastically lower temperatures but their downside was a requirement for some massive cooling on the “hot side” of the TEC. CoolIT’s Freezone Elite v2 Thermoelectric CPU Cooler harnesses a TEC and watercooling setup in a pre-assembled […]
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The search for silence and power efficiency lends itself nicely to the HTPC market where you want a silent computer which means fewer fans and a fine selection of just-powerful-enough hardware for the task at hand. Benchmark Reviews has a look at the PowerColor Go! Green Radeon HD5670 Graphics Card which uses a passive cooler […]
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It’s difficult to imagine a world without wireless networking…well ok it isn’t as some Ethernet cable manufacturers were probably banking on a wired future but extending the technology to displays will make things interesting indeed. Legit Reviews has a look at the Intel Wireless Display technology embedded in the Toshiba Satellite E205 notebook coupled with […]
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There’s no denying that some of the latest and greatest graphics cards push temperatures that are very uncomfortable especially when coupled with the rest of the high end hardware in a PC. The Inno3D GTX480 iChill Black Series Water Cooled Graphics Card comes prepped with a pre-applied waterblock which should slide into your liquid cooled […]
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Keeping your system well cooled and quiet is a fine balancing act which is pretty much impossible without some form of fan control. Thankfully there are plenty of products to help you control those unruly fans. The Scythe Kaze Master Pro KM03-BK Fan Controller takes things a step further with controls for six fans, support […]
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Cooling hardware tends to have well defined boundaries so as not to stray and allowing the manufacturer maximum flexibility when designing a product. Some people just hate to be so limited. The Zalman VF2000 LED Hybrid Cooler is designed to handle CPU or graphics card cooling tasks which, as you might expect, is a very […]
Read more Zalman VF2000 LED Hybrid Cooler has a tough time deciding what it is
Nvidia’s GF100 chip line has had a bit of a rough go with delays and hot running initial samples sent to reviewers but it seems that retail boards are slightly less toasty as once believed. Benchmark Reviews has a look at the Zotac GeForce GTX 480 Graphics Card and compares it to an early release […]
Read more Zotac GeForce GTX 480 Graphics Card pumps out those high res frames
Storage systems used to be the weakest link in a system lagging far behind processors and memory speeds which makes for quite the bottleneck when your CPU needs more data to crunch on. PC Perspective is trying to figure out which of their high-end storage setups offer the best performance: A four drive RAID 5 […]
Read more High End Storage Systems Compared proves your reads and writes can’t compare
If at first you don’t succeed….you pound the problem into the ground and grind it into dust so that the competition can do nothing but stand in awe of your accomplishment. At least we think that’s what they’re trying to do. Bigfoot Networks has announced their new Killer 2100 network interface card which is similar […]
Read more Bigfoot Networks Killer 2100 NIC reinvents the network card…yet again
The benefits of processor binning are in full effect allowing a good chunk of AMD’s chips to leak into the X3 and X2 classification with mighty impressive clock speeds and the chance of so much more. The AMD Athlon II X3 445 Processor sports a 3.1GHz clock speed and the random possibility of that lucky […]
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The latest generation of graphics cards tend to pump out quite a bit of heat despite the massive two slot coolers they possess which makes the first boards to show up with alternative cooling that much more interesting. The Galaxy GeForce GTX 470 GC sports a nifty cooler that allows you to flip the fan […]
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