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Asus M4A89TD PRO – Short Review and Benchmarks 2 Comments By mav2000 on May 19, 2010 Recently our friends at Asus sent across their new 890FX board, the M4A89TD Pro. With this board, the total number of boards that Asus plans to have with the 890FX chipset are around four. The range topper will be the Crosshair IV Extreme, which is still to be released, followed by the Crosshair IV Formula which we reviewed earlier, the M4A89TD Pro USB3.0 and finally this one. The last two boards have a great ancestor in the M4A790 series and I hope they will live up to the name. They have hardl...
[Guide] Air Cooling 101 – Fans 0 Comments By mav2000 on May 12, 2010 Fans Welcome to the next edition of our Air Cooling 101 series of guides. In case you missed part 1 on CPU cooling, you can find it here. We move on to a topic in which there are consistently a lot of discussions around the net. When we buy fans, we look at three main criteria: 1. CFM – Cubic Feet per Minute, or in simpler words, the amount of air that the fan can push/pull in a minute. 2. Static Pressure – The force with which the fan generates this airflow. 3. dBA – This is...
[Guide] Air Cooling 101 – CPU Cooling 1 Comment By mav2000 on May 7, 2010 Hello and welcome to the first article in my series on Air Cooling. Over the last year or so, I have reviewed a number of air coolers and also a number of different fans and cooling setups. I thought that sharing my experiences would be useful to a lot of people and this is the reasoning behind the writing of this series. This series will cover a number of topics and to start with we will take a look at CPU cooling, which is by far the most important part of our computers. So, why do we need to...
Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX – Performance Review 13 Comments By mav2000 on April 27, 2010 Introduction Welcome to the performance review of the new 890FX chipset and more specifically, the Asus Crosshair IV Formula motherboard. We have already done an extensive pictorial preview of the board and today we are going to concentrate more on the performance of this board. We are going to compare the board to the MSI GD 70 790FX board. As many of you know, the MSI GD70 was one of the best 790FX based boards and was regularly considered amongst the big boys. The main focus of this review i...
[Preview] Unboxing of the Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX 5 Comments By mav2000 on April 22, 2010 Introduction Asus launched the first of the Republic of Gamers (ROG) series for the AMD platform way back in 2007, calling it the Asus Crosshair for the AM2 platform, which was based on the Nvidia nForce 590 chipset. The second in the series was the Asus Crosshair II Formula, which was based on the Nvidia 780a chipset. The third in the series is the Crosshair III Formula and this time Asus did the smart thing and ditched the Nvidia chipsets. They went ahead with the brand new 790FX chipset and m...
[Review] Seven Way AM3 Cooler Shootout – Winner Takes All 11 Comments By mav2000 on April 19, 2010 Introduction Hello and welcome back to the last installment of the AM3 round up for this half of the year. Over the last year, we have done a number of cooler reviews on the AM3 platform and this review will look to add to these results. But before we begin, we would like to thank Noctua and Thermalright for helping us to put this extensive shootout together. Over the last two years, there have been a number of changes in the rankings of the top air coolers. The TRUE was at the top for a long ti...
[Review] Cooler Master 690 II “Plus” 5 Comments By mav2000 on April 14, 2010 Introduction Cooler Master’s current best seller, the CM 690 was initially launched in 2007 and has been one of their mainstays ever since then. The popularity of this chassis was such that it spawned a number of variants, amongst them a windowed version and later the pure version with an all black interior. The chassis was very simple in design and construction and what made it such a great product was that it was designed keeping a lot of the market requirements in mind. With chan...
[Review] Coolink Corator DS CPU-Cooler – Shootout on the AM3 platform 1 Comment By mav2000 on March 11, 2010 Introduction Hello all and welcome back to my never ending quest to find the best air cooling solutions from across the globe. Today we have in our hands a new cooler called the Coolink Corator DS. I would like to thank Kolink International for sending us the cooler. Kolink International Corporation is a cooling specialist established in 1996 and well known amongst industry insiders. Through the years, Kolink designed and manufactured many top-performing heat-sinks, under various different brand...
Noctua NF-P14 FLX and NF-S12B FLX – Review 1 Comment By mav2000 on March 1, 2010 Introduction After the recent review on the Excalibur, I was on the look out for a few low noise fans, specifically for the Venomous X. I was pretty happy with the results that I was getting with the Scythe Gentle Typhoons and decided to get the two Noctua brothers to test. Before I go any further, let me clarify that this was a test to see which would be the best performer with low noise as an added criteria and is not meant for someone looking for benching fans. With that out of ...
Cooler Master Excalibur Fan Review 0 Comments By mav2000 on February 18, 2010 Introduction Recently my good friends at Cooler Master gave me a call and asked me to take a good look at their new case fan. I half expected a 140 mm version of their famous R4’s or maybe a stronger version of their 200mm line up. Little did I expect to see the Excalibur. This fan is a far departure from their current units and I for one was pretty excited with the design. The Excalibur has been named after the legendary sword of King Arthur, which was said to have magical propertie...
Thermalright Venomous X – Return of the King 2 Comments By mav2000 on January 21, 2010 Introduction A couple of weeks ago I was looking for a new cooler and my mind was quite firmly set on the NH D14 from Noctua. But sometime in late December there was a bit of news from Thermalright about a new cooler and I thought that I should probably wait for it to come out before making a decision. Now, Thermalright held the performance crown for a long time with its TRUE series and it was only in the last year or so that it lost the crown to the Megahalems and then to the NH D14 from ...
Corsair H50 – A Brief Look 1 Comment By mav2000 on December 21, 2009 Introduction As some of you know, I was stuck with an H50 for a few days and I was wondering if I should give it a go myself. The price was just about fine for this piece of kit and it sure looked good. So what I did do in the end was run a few tests against the Thermolab Baram to see what all the noise was about. Let me say that I was not disappointed. Before I get ahead of myself, lets take a short look at the company that produces the H50 and also take a look at the H50 itself. Corsair, as a...
Cooler Master HAF 922 – Review 0 Comments By mav2000 on December 14, 2009 Cooler Master HAF 922 Cabinet Review Cooler Master has kindly sent us the second HAF case out there – the HAF 922. This chassis by Cooler Master is based on the same testosterone filled design as that of the HAF 932. The company has managed to impress with the great detail and very solid construction of this series in the past. The HAF 922 is smaller than the 932 and also slightly cheaper. HAF stands for “High Air Flow” and both these cases have multiple 200 mm fans to honor ...
Battle of the Titans – ASUS GTX 295 Vs. ASUS ATI 5870 5 Comments By mav2000 on December 10, 2009 Introduction Its been a while since I wrote a review and thats because I have been concentrating on completing two reviews at the same time. This along with an increased work load has meant that I have been off these pages for far too long. But enough of the chit chat, lets move along to the battle at hand. The Asus 5870 VS. the Asus GTX 295 This is a battle that has been brewing on the net for the last month or so, and I thought that I should do a shootout to find out for myself which is the b...
Thermolab Baram CPU Cooler Review 0 Comments By mav2000 on December 4, 2009 Thermolab Baram CPU Cooler Review Introduction and Specifications // // Hello and welcome to the review of the Thermolab Baram. Thermolab is a relatively little-known Korean company, that dabbles in all kinds of cooling products. The Baram and the Bada are their latest in their line of CPU coolers and today we are going to take a closer look at their 120mm tower cooler, the Baram. “Baram” in Korean means the flow of air. Lets see if this cooler can live up to its name. First, l...
Cooler Master Storm Sniper – A few mods and some cable management. 0 Comments By mav2000 on October 13, 2009 Just got a new case this weekend and worked on it. SO first off removed the HDD bays, as I only use 1 HDD as of now, and dont really need it. Secondly a nice coat of black paint for the interiors. And then finally the cooling, with a couple of add on fans. And yes the new CPU cooler is on the way. Painting and removal of HDD bays completed: And finally the finished product….just one mistake, and thats the bottom fan drawing air out instead of in…am too pooped to fix it now so will ...

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