Cooling Reviews

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    Kingwin Heat-pipe Direct Touch CPU Cooler

    By Marc Adams   July 08, 2008

    Heatpipes have been all the rage for years now. And lapping your mating surface has been all the rage for the last decade. What happens when you take a round heatpipe and make it your actual mating surface? Kingwin answers that question for us.

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    EVGA AKIMBO

    By Marc Adams   July 07, 2008

    If you are looking to add an "aftermarket" cooler to your very hot video card, EVGA looks to be serving up some very fine cooling with their AKIMBO cooling systems it launched a few months ago.

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    Thermaltake's DuOrb and V1 CPU Coolers

    By Marc Adams   May 14, 2008

    Thermaltake has come to market with two new coolers. One is a new rub on an old design, and the other looks like something you might find on a forward-looking fighter craft. But of course, how do these things work? Let's find out.

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    Noise Limit SilentFlux CPU Coolers

    By Marc Adams   May 01, 2008

    Does an "innovative refrigerating pumpless liquid cooler" for your CPU that promises "near water cooling performance" sound interesting? Us too! Finally we were able to find them at Directron after seeing these at Computex in 2007.

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    Noctua NH-U12P Processor Cooler

    By Marc Adams   April 01, 2008

    Four heatpipes, thirty-six fins, SSO bearings, Vortex Control notches, and psycho-acoustic optimizations...wait just a damn minute. Let's find out if Noctua spent more money on marketing or engineering. It's just a CPU heatsink, right?

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    Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev.2

    By Marc Adams   March 13, 2008

    Inexpensive cooling for a hotter than hell 8800 GT sound like a good idea? Many have probably considered the Accelero S1 but might have been confused by the low price. For around US$25 this might be the best video card insurance you ever bought.

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    ASUS Silent Knight, Triton 77, & Silent Square EVO

    By Marc Adams   February 15, 2008

    CPU heatsinks from ASUS? Sure, why not? They sent us three new heatsink and fan units to test and we give them a run for the money on a new Intel Quad Core processor specially fitted with a hardware temperature monitoring system.

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    GeForce 8800 GT Mega Heatsink Roundup

    By Marc Adams   December 18, 2007

    Many of you know that NVIDIA's 8800 GT can run rather hot under load. Our GTs ran at over 90C. That spells disaster in a hot case. Let HardOCP show you the way to cool down that white hot GT while not breaking the bank and getting great performance.

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    Mega-Heatsink Roundup - 0407

    By Marc Adams   November 01, 2007

    Big bucks for big units! We pull out the stops and put 10 big bad cooling systems and heatsinks to the test. What coolers deliver you the best temperature drop for your hard earned dollar? We spell it out for you on a unit by unit basis.

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    Thermalright Inferno FX-14 CPU Cooler Preview

    By Justin Diduch   May 01, 2007

    Thermalright gives HardOCP an exclusive first look at their new Inferno FX-14 heatsink as we break in our new Core2Duo test bed along with a new cooling editor in the Great Northwest.

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    CoolIT Freezone Chilled Liquid CPU Cooler

    By Justin Diduch   January 08, 2007

    Is CoolIT’s hybrid, TEC chilled, water cooler up to the task of cooling your CPU? We find out how water cooling with no radiator works. Turns out to be user-friendly as well.

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    Koolance PC4-1020BK Watercooled Case

    By Justin Diduch   November 07, 2006

    Koolance is back with a redesign of their integrated cooling system. The last time HardOCP looked at this chassis in the form of the PC3-720BK we had a couple of issues. We take a look to see if Koolance has redeemed themselves with this new cooling system.