The performance is really hard to beat as there is only so much refinement that can be made where performance is concerned. Is it the best? No. The best is subjective and there are too many variables out there to be considered. What can be said is that, “The performance of the PH-TC12DX is commensurate to that of comparably priced units of similar design.”

After this we decided that it was time to quit. This was the second Z77 FTW that we had received (first had BIOS issues, dropped RAIDS and dropped USB accessories as well) and we had quite a bit of of work in these boards with mediocre results at most everything – except overclocking. We really do not like to do this but there comes a point where no matter how much time and money you pour into a product you are not going to get the results you are looking for.

Pass! This board took everything we threw at it and never complained. We filled every port (save the 1394) used the included USB 3.0 breakout and stressed it with no problems. We overclocked it and streamed again while benchmarking; no issues. We ran one hour of AIDA stability test while overclocked and streaming.

Recently, Corsair sent over one of its flagship cooling products, the Hydro Series™ H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler. The current Hydro Series™ line includes the H100, H80, H70 Core, H60 and H40.   H100 packaging H100 packaging The Corsair H100 comes in Corsair’s signature Blue and White packaging that is present throughout Corsair’s other [...]

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 [...]

Introduction Today we have an exclusive Cooler Master release product on the bench. The H612PWM is an ambitious attempt to take the cooling crown. We are very proud to be one of the first to have it to get an exclusive look at what could be the future of the air cooling market. Looks like [...]

eVGA recently unleashed on the world their new TIM dubbed “Frostbite”, and for good reason. eVGA claims this new compound is not only better for the extreme cooling crowd, but also superior for everyday users as well.

Introduction If extreme overclocking had a name, it’d be k|ngp|n. Vince Lucido (a/k/a “k|ngp|n”) is arguably the man who got such things started in the United States. Back when most people were still gawking at the extreme ventures of a few folks pushing overclocking to new heights with water cooling, this guy started to bring [...]