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Madshrimps -- Evercool's latest product keeps your hard drive running cool, this
low profile device will fit on any 3.5inch HDD you have lying around
and is easy to install and set up. We test the performance and noise
levels in this review. Direct Link
Frosty Tech -- Like many of the heatsinks coming out of Scythe's Japanese headquarters, the Katana II heatsink (model no. SCKTN-2000) makes use of one large slow rotating fan to push air through an array of slanted aluminum cooling fins. The fans' low speed of 1500RPM makes the Katana II a very quiet heatsink under operation. Direct Link
Modders-Inc -- With laptop computer temperatures on the rise and no space in a
laptop to add new fans, how do you add cooling? Let's take a look at
Vantec's Lapcool 5 with adjustable dual silent fans and built-in three port
USB2.0 USB-powered interface and see how it handles the task. Direct Link
Frosty Tech -- The Scythe Mine Rev.B is a funny looking cooler, with a 100mm fan at the center and two separate columns of aluminum cooling fins on either side. Like the Asus Arctic Square Frostytech reviewed previously, this Scythe heatsink (model no. SCMN-1100) makes use of one large fan to pull air into the heatsink and then expel it. The aluminum fins have a shape oddly resembling the geometry of a stealth fighter, and that seems to work just as well at making the Scythe Mine Rev.B a very quiet heatsink under power. The fan rotates at a fixed speed of 1500 RPM, yet there are no thermal throttling or PWM speed controls. Direct Link
Frosty Tech -- The Akasa AK-922 is a hefty heatsink designed for all current AMD and Intel processor families so it should appeal to all users. The AK-922 'Evo Blue' features no less than six copper heat pipes, a very thick copper base, 52 thin aluminum fins, a small extruded aluminum heatsink, and four strategically placed blue LEDs for internal illumination. Three interchangeable base plates allow the Akasa Ak-922 heatsink to be installed on a variety of motherboards, while a 92mm PWM fan spins at speeds of 600 to 3000 rpm. According to our real world sound measurements that translates into noise levels of approximately 60.3 dBA to 42.1 dBA. Standing in at just over 138mm tall, the AK-922 'Evo Blue' heatsink weighs an astounding 852 grams. The Akasa AK-922 'Evo Blue' heatsink heatsink is compatible with socket 754/939/940/AM2 AMD Athlon64 and socket 775 Intel Pentium 4/D, Core 2 Duo/Quad processors. Direct Link
OCIA -- It has very thin, tightly packed fins for high airflow situations. They are also folded down on the ends to keep the air flowing directly through the heatsink. The blackplate on the top of the cooler is attached to the blue LED fan and slides out with some encouragement, making it possible to put in a higher powered or lower noise fan. However, because it's located in the center of the unit, there's no option to add more fans or move the fan around. Direct Link
XS Reviews -- Noctua pride themselves on quality, quiet cooling solutions, and they do a damn good job. Today I have chassis cooling, the NH-S12 or a 120mm fan to the rest of us. Direct Link
Frosty Tech -- The new Asus Arctic Square heatsink Frostytech is testing out for you today consists of an array of nickel plated aluminum fins wrapped around a 92 mm fan that is set within the body of the heatsink. It's a simple arrangement of fan and cooling fins, but one that draws cool air into the heatsink and expels warmed air out the other side. Noise never becomes much of an issue with this heatsink because the fan impeller does not rotate more than 2300RPM. Direct Link
Overclockers Club -- Peltiers. What images does that conjure up for you? For me, I think of iced over waterblocks and sub-zero cooling. Nowadays, the term "peltier" is used when talking about the cooling device itself. This isn't strictly true, as the name is a Thermo-Electric Cooler (TEC) and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier is the person who discovered the scientific principal of the temperature differential created when applying power to a semiconductor. Essentially, all you need to know is that a TEC is usually a square flat device, where one side gets very cold and one side gets very hot. If you remove the heat from the hot side, the cold side continues to be cold. For processor cooling, if the cold side is placed to absorb heat produced by the CPU or GPU and the heat produced on the hot side is taken away by something with a high thermal capacity like water, then sub-ambient temperatures can be achieved for the processor. Direct Link
Gideon Tech -- Before receiving the Igloo from VIZO, I was kind of stoked to be receiving an all-in-one water cooling heatsink. Although water is not a new idea for cooling computers, the small all-in-one piece is not something you see every day. For the user who wants his or her space in their case, this might be what you are looking for. Direct Link
Think Computers -- When you hear the name Gigabyte you think motherboards, or at least I do. Actually Gigabyte makes a lot of different products ranging from video cards to laptops. Today we will be looking at one of their CPU cooling offerings, the 3D Rocket II. The 3D Rocket II features a dual fan duct design, 4 heatpipes, and a fan control unit. It can tackle both sides of the field being able to support both Intel and AMD platforms. Let's take a look... Direct Link
Frosty Tech -- The Rosewill RCX-Z2 heatsink is designed for socket 775 Intel Pentium D and Core 2 Duo processors. Pulse Width Modulation compatible fans are noted by their 4-pin power connectors, and what PWM does is enable the BIOS to directly control fan speed. The impeller speed increases or decreases relative to the processor's temperature at any given moment, in this case between 500RPM and 3400RPM. Direct Link
Pro-Clockers -- Just from the name you can tell that the Max Orb falls back on the orb design that we are accustomed to seeing from Thermaltake. The Orb is what brought Thermaltake to the level at which it is now. The newer Max Orb takes the design to another level with looks and size, but the question remains: Have the changes made any real difference in performance? Read my words and find out. Direct Link
Driverheaven -- Today we will take a look at a power supply unit made by NorthQ, a Danish
computer components manufacturer. We have tested several NorthQ products
in our labs during the past few years, most of which were power supply
units. While these PSUs always were above average in terms of performance,
quality and pricing, they were not powerful enough to please the most
hardcore gamers and enthusiasts who always demand, nay require excessive,
perhaps even unnecessary amounts of power. For NorthQ to appeal in this
market, they decided to add another PSU in their products line-up; the
Giant Reactor. The Giant Reactor can output exactly 1KW (1000W), enough
power to feed a ludicrous number of components. Nonetheless, raw power is
nothing by itself so we will put it to the test and see how clean and
stable the output of this behemoth is. Direct Link