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Cooling/PSU News
Monday, October 20, 2008
- 2:57 pm | ATI Looking Forward More Advanced Cooling Technologies for Graphics Cards. ATI Teams Up with Celsia for Vapor Chamber Based Cooling Solution
Thursday, June 26, 2008
- 5:20 pm | Coolink Unveils Thermal Compound with Ceramic Nano-Particles. Thermal Grease with Ceramic Nano Particles Approaches the Market
Friday, June 6, 2008
- 11:10 am | IBM Touts New Liquid-Cooling Technique. IBM to Use Liquid to Cool 3D Chips
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
- 4:05 pm | OCZ Technology Launches Vendetta 2 CPU Cooler. Vendetta Grew Up
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
- 2:13 pm | New Chip-Cooling Technology Promises a Revolution. Ionic Winds for Locally Enhanced Cooling
Cooling/PSU
Today we are going to talk about a very interesting and unique cooler using Core-Contact technology (when heatpipes form part of the cooler base).
Since its first public showcase, the enthusiast community has been waiting impatiently for it to finally become available. Everyone hopes that it would be the best. Please meet Noctua NH-D14!
The three new processor coolers that we are going to discuss today belong to the so-called tower-type. However, they look and perform very differently. Our today’s review will tell you which solution is the best of the three and what its advantages are.
We are going to discuss another compact and affordable liquid-cooling system for the CPU. This time it is a solution from Corsair.
Today we are going to check out a stylish and beautiful cooling solution for a wide range of graphics cards on ATI and Nvidia GPUs. Read our review for details about this new Thermaltake cooler.
Today we are going to talk about two top models from Thermaltake’s ISGC lineup that stands for Inspiration of Silent Gaming Cooling. Find out how well these coolers performed in our traditional tests.
As you know, beauty and cooling efficiency are not always the combination that all solutions have. To illustrate this statement we are going to talk about two cooling solutions from Asus: a very beautiful one and a very efficient one.
We are going to talk about a liquid-solution from Alphacool, one of the leaders in this field. Although this product is not very new anymore, it is still very up-to-date and has a lot of potential.
Not everyone needs super-efficient and expensive CPU cooling solutions, which we test on a regular basis. On the contrary, most users would be quite happy with a decent replacement to their boxed coolers that would run quieter. Today we are going to talk about four solutions like that from Scythe Thermaltake and Xilence.
Today we are going to talk not just about a graphics card cooler, but about an entire kit for fully-fledged and highly efficient cooling for extremely hot graphics accelerators.
Could one quietly dissipate 320 W of heat from a graphics accelerator? You will probably exclaim that this is impossible? Well, looks like in this case you would be wrong. Please meet a new extreme cooling solution from Arctic Cooling.
Our roundup will talk about 14 power supply units from 12 different manufacturers that have one thing in common: they all offer capacity of 1000W or higher.
We are going to talk about two new coolers with heatpipe direct touch technology, but using heatpipes of different diameter. Read our new review of two new solutions from Titan and Kingwin.
Today we are going to talk about a new mass production liquid-cooling system from Thermaltake and compare its efficiency against one of the super-coolers. Find out from our new review, which one proves more efficient.
The new Zalman cooling solution is a very interesting combination of multiple functions. However, how skillful is the implementation of each feature in this “all-in-one” combination, you will find out from our today’s review.
Impressive size, six copper heatpipes, six heatsink arrays, 140 mm fan and mirror-shining base – all these are distinguishing features of the new Japanese CPU cooler, which will be the hero of our today’s review.
Today we are going to talk about three new air coolers for central processors. In fact, these solutions offer noting principally revolutionary, but each boasts its own unique features.
IKONIK is a young Taiwanese Company founded a little over a year ago. However, it has already become pretty known due to aggressive market conquering strategy. Our article will cover the entire lineup of power supply units ranging in capacity from 450 W to 1200 W.
"Strong, handsome, face of a leader – does Arthur look like a king or what?" - ©"Shrek the Third" by DreamWorks.
This article is devoted to a very beautiful, solid copper cooler with a memorable name and excellent combination of ergonomics, universality, efficiency and acoustic characteristics.



