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[Blog] Thermal Compounds: MX-3 Vs. AS5 1 Comment By The Duke on March 13, 2010 Curiosity killed the cat, but will it kill us? I went out and bought the new MX-3 thermal paste from Arctic Cooling. Until the other day, I have always used AS5 (Arctic Silver 5) for my important hardware. However, with all the rave reviews about the new MX-3, I decided to give it a try. Is all the banter about this product really true? I am on a mission to find out once and for all! MX-3 Packaging: The MX-3 comes in basic packaging as you can see. The big attention grabber on the package w...
[Review] Coolink Corator DS CPU-Cooler – Shootout on the AM3 platform 2 Comments 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...
[Blog] Single vs. Dual Triple 120mm Radiator 2 Comments By wez on March 11, 2010 My goal was to better understand the impact of adding a second 360 radiator, which in theory doubles the heat dissipation capability of your loop. But what does it bring to the table in terms of overclockability on the AM3 platform? Read on for a lightweight comparison between running one and two 360-sized radiators in a single loop, cooling a quad core AMD Phenom II CPU…………. TEST SETUP Liquid Cooling components Radiator(s): 1-2x Alphacool Nexxxos Xtreme III ...
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 ...
Review: Thermalright HR-05 IFX 1 Comment By The Duke on March 1, 2010 Our friends over at Thermalright shipped us a very appealing chipset heatsink. The HR-05 IFX is one of four in the series of chipset heatsinks Thermalright offers, at the moment. With all of the accomplishments of Thermalright’s CPU heatsinks, it is very easy to overlook the rest of their solid catalog. Today we get to find out if the HR-05 IFX will live up to the great reputation of top quality products that Thermalright produces. Introduction: Features: Wild Fire design with incre...
Temps & Watts, CPU’s and Extreme Cooling, Part #2 0 Comments By Buckeye on February 26, 2010 Continuing along from Part #1 A few problems and sprung up that will effect the rest of the tests. The USB Temp monitoring probe is some what slow in response and it shows in some of the graphs. It also appears to be off in reading temps. The main problem with the temp probe is you can only use the probe they provided with the USB attachment, from what they told me its calibrated to each probe. So I cannot use any other probes that I have here on hand, the readings go way off if I use one of my ...
Guide: Overclocking a fan 0 Comments By OverShocked on February 26, 2010 How to overclock a fan. What are we doing? There are 2 different mods we can do, both of them will increase the voltage going to fan resulting in a higher fan speed. Fans are meant to run at 12v. We are going to run these fans at 17v and 24v. Are their any risks? Of course there are risks, its called overclocking for a reason. It will not be that risky though because we are not dealing with enough electricity that will cause harm to the body. Always proceed with caution though. The main ri...
EVGA P55 Classified 200 Review 2 Comments By Jake on February 24, 2010 Introduction: Today we will be taking a look at the EVGA P55 Classified 200 the brother to their X58 Classified and X58 4-Way Classified motherboards. This board follows in the footsteps with the same color scheme as well as the same EATX form factor. The EVGA Team along with Peter “Shamino” Tan packed this board with all the features and overclocking options even the most hard core overclocker or enthusiast would want. Packing: Let’s take a look at the board and what it comes with. ...
Temps & Watts, CPU’s and Extreme Cooling, Part #1 3 Comments By Buckeye on February 18, 2010 In the beginning when I first started using different methods of extreme cooling the first unit I tested was a Jinu Single Stage Cooling unit that was custom made for me. This was an amazing cooling unit that included a Single Stage Phase Chiller installed in a TJ07 case. The TJ07 cooling tower sat next to what I called the main rig which was in another TJ07 case. It had a EVGA 790i SLI motherboard and a QX9770 which ran at 4.8ghz overclock for 24/7 use. It was an amazing machine that had so muc...
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...
First Look: Feser xChanger 480 2 Comments By H2O on February 7, 2010 Over the last several years, the computer radiator market has become increasing crowded. Gone are the days of enthusiasts going to junk yards and digging heater cores out of old cars, the computer radiator business is now a lucrative market for the large manufactures, and there are currently no less than nine different brands of radiators. Hardware Labs, Koolance, Thermochill, Swiftech, XSPC, and EK, among others, vie for your business, throwing so many graphs and charts at you that it makes you...
Review: ‘Update: January 31st’ Lamptron -FC3- Limited Edition 2 Comments By The Duke on January 31, 2010 Over the weekend we had Lamptron deliver their Limited Edition FC3 fan controller to us. The limited edition FC-3 designed by Ian Helmar, otherwise known as “SNiiPE_DoGG”, comes in two different versions. There is a Model A and a Model B, each with some distinct aesthetic differences. Today we are going to be reviewing the model A. Below are some shots of the two versions that we found on Lamptron’s website that should help illustrate the differences: *These are not to be mist...
Update: ‘Whine’ from the FC3? 0 Comments By The Duke on January 28, 2010 With the recent concerns about the FC3 limited edition having a “whine” when fans were set at low speeds, we dove back into testing this unit further to see if we could duplicate the issue. The main question/concern about this unit was: “Does this unit ‘whine’ like the other FC3 units in the past. The actual unit made noise and so did the fans when low volts were applied.” We set out to answer this the best we could. Let’s get started, shall we? Our test...
Thermalright Venomous X Roundup Vs TRUE and V10 on I7 2 Comments By thebanik on January 24, 2010 INTRODUCTION I have been using the Thermalright’s earlier flagship cooler Ultra Extreme for almost the last 3 years since it first launched. Though I have tested a few air coolers in between but none were able to beat this cooler sans the Megahalam and D14 which didnt grant an upgrade for the miniscule improvement they were bringing to the table. And when after so many years Thermalright announced a new flagship cooler, I was sure to test them out even if after buying them. So as ...

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