[Blog] Thermaltake Contact 29 vs. Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme2 Comments By carpo93closeAuthor: carpo93Name: Valerio Carpani Email: carpo93@libero.it Site: About:See Authors Posts (4) on March 29, 2010
Those two products are in the same level of price (30€), and they have a similar bundle: a fan, retention kit for sockets AM3, LGA775, LGA 1336 and LGA 1156. So we can determinate what cooler is better only by testing their performance.
Contact 29 box:
Freezer Extreme box:
Contact 29 fan:
Freezer Extreme fan:
Test Setup
Core i3 540
Asus P7P55D PRO
CORSAIR TX750
SAPPHIRE 4890
CORSAIR DDR3 2X1Gb 1333 Cl 9
Temp Ambient: 20°C
Results
Conclusion
The tests shows us that the Artic Cooling ...
[Blog] Low-End Testing, MSI 8600 GT & GTS OC Edition0 Comments By carpo93closeAuthor: carpo93Name: Valerio Carpani Email: carpo93@libero.it Site: About:See Authors Posts (4) on March 23, 2010
Here’s my test on these two low-end cards.
8600GT OC
Gpu technology: 80nm
Memories: GDDR3 256Mb
GPU clock: 580MHz
GDDR clock: 800MHz
Stream processors: 32
Bus : 128-bit
Connectors: Dual DVI e S-Video
Slot: PCI Express
Can work on SLI
8600GTS OC
Gpu technology: 80nm
Memories: GDDR3 256Mb
GPU clock: 700MHz
GDDR clock: 1050MHz
Stream processors: 32
Bus : 128-bit
Connectors: Dual DVI e S-Video
Slot: PCI Express
Can work on SLI
Setup
Psu: LC Power Metatron Arkangel 850w
Mothe...
[Blog] 230° Celsius for a 8800gtx1 Comment By carpo93closeAuthor: carpo93Name: Valerio Carpani Email: carpo93@libero.it Site: About:See Authors Posts (4) on March 14, 2010
Done by the user Liquid Cooling
LiquidCooling had a broken 8800 gtx that shows artifact and he read that if you bake an 8800 gtx, you can remove this problem.
So he tried:
Unfortunately the card did only one boot after the bake session and could pass a 3dmark 06 before dieing again.
Ati Radeon 5870 out3 Comments By carpo93closeAuthor: carpo93Name: Valerio Carpani Email: carpo93@libero.it Site: About:See Authors Posts (4) on September 23, 2009
Today the new ati top card can be bought.
Here’s some pics:
The chip architecture:
Tonight i will post benches.