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Thermolab BADA Heatsink Review
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 "From the makers of the wavy BARAM heatsink comes the Thermolab BADA; a 136mm tall mid-tower heatsink that fills in the performance cooling void where taller coolers can't go. Height you see, can quickly throw a wrench into PC plans when the cooler doesn't fit in the case. Thermolab's BADA heatsink is equipped with one 95mm PWM fan mounted to the heatsinks' raw aluminum fins via sturdy rubber vibration absorbing posts. Interestingly for a commercial heatsink, Thermolab are pre-lapping the base of the BADA to ensure the three 6mm diameter exposed copper heatpipes are flat, smooth, and ideal for mounting onto the processor."
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Arctic Cooling F Pro PWM & TC Case Fans
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" Up for review today we've got a few case fans from Arctic Cooling, ranging in size from 8cm to 12cm. They are advertised as super quiet and using patented PST function, up to five fans can be connected to one fan."
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3Rsystem Iceage 120 Boss II Dimpled-Fin Heatsink Review
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"Let's get right to the point, 3Rsystem's Iceage 120 Boss II heatsink is currently one of the Top 5 heatsinks tested on Frostytech. Key to the success of this Korean-made heatsink on both AMD and Intel synthetic test platforms are five 8mm diameter exposed base heatpipes and a unique "X" pattern that places the heatpipes in the path of high velocity air from the coolers' 120mm fan. On top of that, the Iceage 120 Boss II heatsink utilizes dimpled surface fins which are intended to disrupt boundary layer laminar airflow."
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Coolink SWiF 1201 Fan Review
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"Coolink are a well known and highly regarded high end cooling company. They
produce all sorts of cooling hardware ranging from basic fans to full
heatsinks and thermal compounds to laptop coolers.
Up for review today we have one of Coolink's most acclaimed products. The
SWiF 1201 (Silent Whisper Fan) is almost a legendary product that has been
very highly regarded by both air and watercooling gurus."
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Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme CPU Cooler Review
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Tuniq, one of the trust names on the market, continues to design and create some artistic, yet contemporary CPU coolers. Their latest CPU cooling solution, the Tower 120 Extreme, can cool every processor available from both Intel and AMD. Let’s have a quick look at this new design to see whether if it’s all show and blow or just the best damn CPU cooler ever.
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Thermolab BADA Heatsink Review
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From the makers of the wavy BARAM
heatsink comes the Thermolab
BADA; a 136mm tall mid-tower heatsink that fills in the performance cooling
void where taller coolers can't go. Height you see, can quickly throw a wrench
into PC plans when the cooler doesn't fit in the case. Thermolab's BADA heatsink
is equipped with one 95mm PWM fan mounted to the heatsinks' raw aluminum fins via sturdy rubber vibration absorbing posts. Interestingly for a commercial heatsink, Thermolab are pre-lapping the
base of the BADA to ensure the three 6mm diameter exposed copper heatpipes
are flat, smooth, and ideal for mounting onto the
processor.
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Zaward Gyre Flow Heatsink Review
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 "The Zaward Gyre (ZCJ010) is a box of a heatsink. There is of course adequate clearance around the CPU socket for memory and VRM heatsinks and such, but at first glance it's not exactly clear how the Gyre works. A 120mm fan rests on top of the heatsink, but all four sides of the 110mm tall cube are wrapped in smokey grey plastic. Making the heatsink even more perplexing, the 120mm fan blows perpendicular to the direction of the aluminum fins."
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3Rsystem Iceage 120 Boss II Dimpled-Fin Heatsink on Frostytech!
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 Frostytech have tested a new heatsink which comes in #1 on both of their test charts.... looks like a new record holder in the world of heatsinks has been crowned - and it isn't made by Thermaltake, Coolermaster or and of those "well known" companies.
"Let's get right to the point, 3Rsystem's Iceage 120 Boss II heatsink is currently one of the Top 5 heatsinks tested on Frostytech. Key to the success of this Korean-made heatsink on both AMD and Intel synthetic test platforms are five 8mm diameter exposed base heatpipes and a unique "X" pattern that places the heatpipes in the path of high velocity air from the coolers' 120mm fan. On top of that, the Iceage 120 Boss II heatsink utilizes dimpled surface fins which are intended to disrupt boundary layer laminar airflow."
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Evercool HPK-10025EA Intel Heatsink Review
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"The Evercool HPK-10025EA heatsink uses a simple arrangement of swagged aluminum fins over four 6mm diameter copper heatpipes, connected by a short distance to the CPU. The entire heatsink stands 65mm tall and weighs a feathery 320 grams. The four heatpipes are exposed at the base of the heatsink, which although now a common technique is a first for such a low profile heatsink. The stubby aluminum fins rest below an Arctic Cooling style, red 110mm fan that rotates at a moderately audible 1800RPM."
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Glacialtech X-Wing R1 Notebook Cooling Pad Review
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"The Glacialtech X-Wing R1 notebook cooling pad accomodates chronically overheating notebooks with footprints of up to 365x250mm, either while sitting on a desk or resting comfortably on your lap. That means netbooks with screens as small as 7" and full size laptops with screens as wide as 17" should fit onto the X-Wing R1 without a problem. The bottom of the X-Wing is curved so it rests across your legs comfortably, without restricting airflow or cutting into you as some all-metal notebook cooling pads will."
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Noctua NF-S12B Fan Review
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"Today’s technological advances have covered the entire gambit from hardware to software, and the cooling components have seen the advancements, as well. Many fan companies now offer highly efficient fans that cool incredibly well, but offer very little in the way of noise contribution from the system. I currently have some of the quietest running fans in my one computer case and on the heatsink, that if it weren’t for the case lighting, I would never know that they were on. These wonderful fans happen to come from a common name in computer cooling, Noctua.
The Noctua NF-S12B 120mm fans are designed with noise control in mind. The Noctua NF-S12B fans can be run in three different fan speeds for performance versus noise, depending on your application. The included jumpers allow for fan speed selection to fine tune the performance, while keeping acoustical contributions in mind."
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Intel Core i7 CPU Water Block Roundup
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Here we are again, with some brand new water blocks to cool your Nehalem or Lynnfield monster CPU. We got some strong contenders this time, which will give the blocks, that we already tested, a serious run for their money. In total 7 new blocks delivered to us thanks to Aquatuning. We compare performance to 6 blocks we previously tested. Find out which one cools your CPU the best!
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GlacialTech F101 PWM CPU cooler
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"For the past few months, we have reviewed couple of newly launched GlacialTech products such as X-Wing R1 notebook cooler, UFO V51 gaming CPU cooler, Altair A381 HTPC case and GP-AL650A 650W PSU. Today we will take a look on GlacialTech latest retail product; F101. Let us deep dive this GlacialTech F101 in detail which is a high end CPU cooler with dual 120mm cooling fans supported."
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Toughpower XT 850W and the Toughpower Qfan
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Even though Thermaltake have been around for a long time they have only recently entered into the power supply market... around two years ago. That hasn’t stopped them from forming several series (7 at the time of this review) consisting of several products in each category. We had the chance to review and evaluate a few of these products in the past, such as the Toughpower XT 850W and the Toughpower Qfan 500W unit. Today we will present you another high performance power supply product from Thermaltake, the Evo Blue 750W.
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Arctic Cooling PRO/TC 80, 92, 120 mm Fans
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Arctic Cooling has always been a leader in quiet PC cooling devices. By utilizing a completely new innovation Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) Sharing Technology (PST), these fans have the ability to control all of your Arctic Cooling fans and further reduce the noise level of your chassis.
Now the next question is, 'What is PST?'. PST works with all Arctic Cooling's PWM fans, in effect daisy chaining them to one PWM controller on your motherboard. When the CPU temperature increases instead of just ramping up the CPU fan it ramps up all fans that are connected. Visit Arctic Cooling website to get a bit better explanation, HERE.
We not going to just review one type of fan here at Bjorn3d, in fact we have two types of fans from Arctic Cooling. The other type is a TC (Temperature Controlled) fan. These types of fans work in conjunction to temperature sensor that is hard wired to the fan, as the sensor warms up it speeds up the fan. When the temperatures of that sensor go down the fan speed reduces.
These fans are designed for chassis. With out further ado, lets see what makes these fans differ from the other types of fans out there, and hopefully see what makes them tick. I just need to remember to keep my fingers away from the moving blades of the fan, LOL.
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EKL Alpenföhn Nordwand
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“EKL is an german cooler manufacturer with the own brand “Alpenföhn”. Die coolers from the Alpenföhn series are very interesting, expensive to manufacture and high quality. Also the selected names for the products are very creative. The Nordwand is a big Tower cooler for Intel and AMD processors. We have tested him on a Core i7 920. More about the temperatures and volume you can find in the review.”
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Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 Pro AMD Heatsink Review
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 Frostytech have written up a new Arctic Cooling heatsink, and it's interesting to see how hot this cooler gets at its slowest fan speed.
"The Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 Pro is just such heatsink: ideal for mainstream CPUs that don't exceed 90W TDP.... so long as the fan speed stays at 2000RPM. Frostytech pushed the test scenario a little further than that of course. Arctic Cooling's Alpine 64 Pro is a mainstream extruded aluminum heatsink that features the companies signature suspended low noise fan. The design minimizes turbulence and the noise created by air moving over the edges of a traditional fan frame, by removing as much of the fan frame as possible."
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Evercool HPK-10025EA Intel Heatsink Review
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"The Evercool HPK-10025EA heatsink uses a simple arrangement of swagged aluminum fins over four 6mm diameter copper heatpipes, connected by a short distance to the CPU. The entire heatsink stands 65mm tall and weighs a feathery 320 grams. The four heatpipes are exposed at the base of the heatsink, which although now a common technique is a first for such a low profile heatsink. "
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Evercool Transformer 5 HPJ-12025 Heatsink Review
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"On the test bench today is a new dual 120mm fan heatsink from Evercool called the Transformer 4 HPJ-12025. Its twin fans are arranged in a push-pull configuration and rotate at a leisurely 1000RPM. The Transformer 4 heatsink is intended to be a quiet under power, using two fans to quietly do the job of one. As you'll see shortly, the Transformer 4 succeeds in this regard with a real world noise footprint under 40 dBA."
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