Introduction We congratulate Cooler Master to their 20th Anniversary. The company has done well and is well established with no small list of award winning products in a vast line of categories. We are pleased to announce that we will be reviewing the anniversary edition TPC-812 CPU cooler today. We are sure the vast majority [...]

Introduction Noctua is back in the house. It’s always good to have them here. We appreciate the work and effort that is put into these cooler designs and their build quality. Although some of the designs or color schemes might not speak to everyone, the performance is far from lackluster. Noctua is a respectable contender [...]

Introduction We are adding a new name to list of manufacturers. NZXT has invited us to have look at their latest air cooler release, the NZXT Havik 140. Here we have another great company from sunny California. Seems like the sun is good for people. The 2004 Los Angeles startup will soon celebrate it’s first [...]

Introduction From sunny California comes our next contender. SilenX sent us the EFZ-120HA5. The EFZ-120HA5 is a 120mm heatsink equipped with SilenX’s own Effizio fan. Usually this would be a pretty straight forward review and it will be but we discovered something that immediately caught our eye. On the packaging of the SilenX EFZ-120HA5 is [...]

Introduction We continue with our quest to explore alternative options to traditional air cooling and to do so today we have the Antec KÜHLER H₂O 620 in the lab. The Antec KÜHLER H₂O 620 is the little brother of the Antec KÜHLER H₂O 920 and has been specifically designed for Antec by Asetek. We can [...]

Today comes double trouble from Spire. They have sent us the Gemini Rev. 2 to put through the paces. Spire has been in the business of building computer parts and computer equipment for over a decade. The company is covering markets around everywhere with multiple locations strategically placed around the globe.     We will [...]

Introduction There have been many discussions on the interwebs of whether or not traditional air cooling is efficient enough and if it can provide enough performance or if water cooling can supersede it and offer things that air cooling just can’t. Noise, power draw, reliability, performance and pure price are among common categories mentioned in [...]

Introduction We got some Voodoo in the lab. No seriously, some Venom Voodoo. I think you got it now. Correct, The Akasa Venom Voodoo spooked it’s way in our labs. Let’s hope that the black magic doesn’t effect the results. The company Akasa is well established. Akasa has development and manufacturing operations in Taiwan, China, [...]