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Thermaltake Unveils Odd-Looking Memory Cooler

Thermaltake is known for offering some of the best (and sometimes downright weird) cooling products for your computer hardware components. Today, the company announced a new solution meant to provide your high-end DDR and DDR2 memory with the cooling factor required for intensive performance.The new product is dubbed...

1 August 2008
11:02 GMT

V8 Power for Cooler Master CPU Cooler

When you talk about cars V8 indicates pure power, but when you turn to computers the V8 from Cooler Master is meant to offer your high-end CPU the optimum working environment. The newly announced CPU cooler has been previously showed at the Computex show in Taipei, but the company decided to wait until now to officia...

1 July 2008
05:14 GMT

GeForce 9900 GTX Stock Heatsink Spotted in the Wild

The upcoming generation of graphics cards in the GeForce 9900 family from Nvidia gets detailed piece by piece once again, with some leaked information regarding the GTX heatsink. The metal structure has been pictured by tech website PCOnline and its solid layout seems to confirm the fact that the new cards will run p...

14 May 2008
04:49 GMT

MacBook / Air USB-Powered Add-On Cooler

So, they say this Zefyr is a high efficiency MacBook cooler huh? Well, does the fact that it drains its power from the MacBook Air's single USB port count as a plus? Luckily, moshi's add-on is also suitable for MacBook (not Air) users, so I guess we know who's buying."A MacBook under continuous demandi...

13 May 2008
18:36 GMT

Electronics Work Better When Cooled

It is well known that electronic devices work better when subjected to low temperatures. The reason is very simple. The electrical resistance of materials is in direct relation with temperature. Higher temperature means higher electrical resistance and ultimately higher power loss. With enhanced temperature, thermal ...

1 April 2008
08:39 GMT

Nexus HXR-5500 Memory Coolers - When Common Heatspreaders Are Not Enough

The rush for computing performance is constantly transforming the hardware parts inside our computers. Once upon a time, cooling solutions were exclusively pitched at computer processors, but as more and more powerful hardware came along, heatpipe coolers and even water-based solutions made their way to other compone...

19 February 2008
04:55 GMT

Scythe Zipang CPU Cooler: Size Matters a Lot!

If you're one of the lucky few to have finally met one of those Wolfdale-based ultra-fast quad core CPUs from Intel, you must be pretty disappointed with the stock cooler that's mocking at you inside the box. I for one could not stop wondering how on Earth can you cool down a 3 GHz powerhorse with a one cen...

29 January 2008
09:43 GMT

Scythe to Release Anniversary Full-Copper Ninja Cooler

Cooling solution specialist Scythe celebrated its fifth anniversary with a special model of Ninja CPU cooler. The anniversary Ninja models feature full copper heatsink fins, among some other small improvements. The all-copper heatsink makes the cooler much more attractive as it is easier to spot out, even when covere...

16 January 2008
05:46 GMT

Drink Beer Without Back Pains: Cruzin Cruiser

There's no life for you without your cold beer; but do your sedentariness and big beer belly make its transport to the picnic place an ordeal for you? Here comes the solution: the Cruzin Cooler will keep 24 cans of your preferred beverage, or 12 cans and 8 pounds (3.6 kg) of ice. Of course, you can load it up wi...

14 January 2008
05:33 GMT

Nextreme to Give Chips the Peltier Chills

North Carolina-based Nextreme corporation has announced a new cooling solution to offer an efficient alternative to the bulky, noisy and power-consuming classical cooling devices. The Peltier coolers are tiny, efficient, noiseless and can even be integrated into the chip's package. Moreover, the coolers can be s...

11 January 2008
10:30 GMT

Cool Bed for Your Notebook - A Belkin Solution to Global Warming

Belkin is not only rubber and plastic, swimming mice or colorful USB hubs. A laptop cooling solution looks a little too innovative to be true, or at least this is the first impression, until you try it. The Belkin Laptop Cooling Pad may seem either a waste of time or a revolutionary invention in the laptop cooling d...

3 December 2007
09:48 GMT

OCZ: Vendetta Versus CPU Overheating

OCZ's Vendetta is a high capacity ventilation system to feature heatpipes. Perfectly fit for both AMD and Intel chips, the new cooler from OCZ is committed to cooling your powerhorse down. The design may seem a little strange when compared to other cooling solutions, but in terms of efficiency, there is no doubt...

30 November 2007
09:16 GMT

Zalman Revives the Fan Controller Trend

Fan controllers are not a piece of hardware you would frequently stumble upon. They are the improved alternative to the manual fan controllers and are designed to adjust the fan speed in order to deliver a pre-set temperature. Fan controllers are complicated creatures and the last successful attempt at building them ...

26 November 2007
05:02 GMT

Asus Triton 77 - One Cooler to Rule all the Sockets

Asus has released a new line of coolers that support multiple processor models, either AMD or Intel. The innovative technology, called Way Up Airflow Cooling, blows the air up and away from the processor. The cooler is made of five pure-copper heatpipes that dissipate and conduct the heat from the processor to the ex...

21 November 2007
09:11 GMT

Noctua's NH-U12P: Cool Breeze for Overclocking Frenzy

Noctua, the Austrian and Taiwanese joint-venture has announced the availability of a new model in the NH-U series: the NH-U12P. Already awarded more than 150 recommendations, the cooling series distinguishes by an increased ventilation capacity and a low noise level.Noctua's NH-U12P is built around the successfu...

21 November 2007
04:19 GMT

Thermaltake V1 - The Heavy Duty Cooler

The cooling solution from Thermaltake features a unique, V-shaped design with two sets of heatsink fins that hide the four heatpipes starting from its bottom. Built exclusively from copper, the cooler weighs about 340 grams and the universal heatsink supports a wide range of processors, both Intel and AMD. The 110 mm...

19 November 2007
10:05 GMT

Quad Core Asus CPU Cooler - Silent Square EVO

Asus has announced the launch of a new piece of hardware, this time an active cooling solution that is aimed at users requiring enhanced performance while keeping the noise level way down. The new Asus central processing unit cooling solution is called Silent Square EVO and it comes as a continuation of the previous ...

15 October 2007
07:00 GMT

Want to Overclock? Choose The Thermalright HR-01X

Usually, the most overclocked central processing units are those fitted inside personal computer systems but sometimes even processors aimed at servers receive the very same treatment as overclocking is way less expensive than upgrading to a faster and more expensive CPU.Most server systems are coming equipped with m...

8 October 2007
03:33 GMT

Sharkoon Presents The Silent Eagle CPU Cooler

Sharkoon just announced the launch of its latest central processing unit active cooling solution, the Silent Eagle cooler that comes as a continuation of its previous line of products released under the same name, preserving their superb cooling performance which is obtained thanks to the Direct Touch technology.This...

27 September 2007
08:06 GMT

Universal CPU Cooling Solution from Cooler Master

Most central processing units nowadays are coming equipped with active cooling solutions from the factory and while these default coolers are good enough for the mainstream computer user, they kind of fall flat when it comes to supporting the latest and greatest processors under heavy workloads and high overclocking....

26 September 2007
03:36 GMT

Scythe Cools Your Memories With The Kama Wing

Ever wanted to squeeze just a little bit more performance from your computer but could not as the memory sub-system was just too unstable at high frequencies or voltages? Well, if this is the case, the new Scythe made cooler solutions for random access memory modules are just the thing for you.The cooling solutions m...

25 September 2007
02:57 GMT

Akasa's Ubercool CPU Cooler

Akasa finally decided to launch its much awaited central processing unit cooling solution named Revo that is based on some radical new ideas that should make your processor run cooler while keeping the noise at an absolute minimum.Revo is based and powered by something called the thermodynamic 'bubble-pump'...

20 September 2007
03:03 GMT

The Very First VGA Cooler from Akasa

Most graphics cards are coming nowadays with active cooling solutions that are cleverly designed and offer a wide range of features that will help them do their job better: keep your hot graphics processing unit cool. While there will always be cards equipped with passive cooling systems that rely solely on their hea...

14 September 2007
09:04 GMT

Thermalright HR-05/IFX: The Inferno Fire eXtinguisher

Thermalright announced the launch of a new chipset passive cooling solution, the HR-05/IFX cooler that is a kind of going back to basics solution, as the manufacturing company never really approved the current industry trend of using complex heatpipe systems for the entire motherboard. Unlike most currently used pass...

11 September 2007
05:44 GMT

Asus Cools Your Quad Core CPU

More powerful central processing units equal more heat dissipated so an efficient cooling system is a crucial part of a stable and performance oriented computer. After the release of its general use Vanquisher processor cooler Asus now officially announced the availability of a cooler specially designed for use with ...

6 September 2007
03:00 GMT

The Great Vanquisher of CPU Generated Heat

OCZ Technology Group announced the release of a brand new processor cooling solution, the OCZ Vanquisher CPU cooler which is intended to be used in conjunction with today's high end computing solutions. The much awaited continuation of the Vindicator processor cooler, the Vanquisher is made using a compact yet h...

31 August 2007
07:03 GMT

Cool Your Hard Drive

Once upon a time not even the processors really, really needed active cooling but now those days are long gone and it looks like the performance we get from the hardware comes at the price of heating it up. A lot of cooling methods appeared over the years from the simple "put a fan" near the troubling spot to the com...

4 August 2007
07:40 GMT

Asus Triton CPU Coolers

Asus launched two new products designed for "do it yourself" computer enthusiasts and power users that enjoy assembling their own computers. These new additions to the Asus cooling line - the Triton 70 and the Triton 75 include advanced features for the best air cooling ever while running very silently. According to ...

1 August 2007
03:56 GMT

Extreme Cooling Devices - Freeze Your CPU

There are a lot of computer cooling devices and methods available to the computer geek or performance addict. From the simple air moving coolers that have been around from the first built computer to the exotic thermoelectric systems, there is a cooling method and device for every situation and computer system. Most ...

30 July 2007
02:14 GMT

Silence Your Coolers...with Olive Oil

Imagine that you have an older computer that is used as a file server or dedicated rooter and firewall. A typical server, firewall or router should be on-line 24/7 so, after a time, you will notice that said computer is anything but silent. If you wonder what happened, here is a list of possible answers: unbalanced c...

12 July 2007
03:03 GMT

Titan HDD Fanless Coolers Prove Extremely Efficient

It's obvious that, with the latest technologies, HDDs became faster and more efficient, but they still generate considerable amounts of heat and this alone endangers the mechanical components and raises the risk of drive failure. In order to avoid such unfortunate events, one may want to check some HDD coolers o...

21 May 2007
06:51 GMT

Thermalright MOSFET Cooler

There are a lot of components on a computer that require cooling so that they would function for longer periods of time or even increase their potential. The main heat sources on a computer are the CPU , the Northbridge, Southbridge, graphics card and the MOSFET. All of these usually require additional cooling system...

19 April 2007
03:20 GMT

New Processor Liquid Cooler

How many coolers does your PC have? 1, 2, 3...more? How about none, and without catching fire or melting?Almost all microprocessors inside servers, desktops and laptops are normally cooled using fans that blow air across the components. There is a company called Very-PC, that hopes to see a much more radical, oil-ba...

11 April 2007
05:53 GMT

The New Generation of Cool Computer Chips

One of the biggest problems with computers is the residual heat, which requires large, often noisy cooling systems, but can also physically damage internal components, and as portable devices become smaller and slimmer, finding a way to cool them down is an important challenge for manufacturers around the world.As p...

30 March 2007
05:09 GMT




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