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[Blog] Thermaltake Contact 29 vs. Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme

carpo93 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:03:31 +0000

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 Freezer Xtreme is a bit better in full, but also the Contact 29 isn’t so bad, and it gives a boost of 18°C from Intel stock and it’s very easy to mount and unmount.

So those two cpu cooler are on tie and if you are searching for a good cooler they are a very good choice.

[Blog] Low-End Testing, MSI 8600 GT & GTS OC Edition

carpo93 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:24:29 +0000

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
Motherboard: P5B Deluxe, Bios rev. 1101
Cpu: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 3.2GHz
Memories: 2×1Gb Dual Channel @ 1000MHz 4-5-5-10
Hard Disk: Western Digital 250Gb SATA
OS: Windows XP Professional edition 32-bit – Windows Vista Ultimate edition 32-bit
Driver: Nvidia Forceware 158.22 (Windows XP) – Nvidia Forceware 158.2 (Windows Vista)

Results

Conclusion

These two cards are very interesting if you want to do some low budget overclock, they do not perform anything like top class GPU’s, but they are still fun to use.

[Blog] 230° Celsius for a 8800gtx

carpo93 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:47:56 +0000

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 out

carpo93 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:15:32 +0000

Today the new ati top card can be bought.

Here’s some pics:

The chip architecture:

Tonight i will post benches.