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Canada -- the country full of ice. We live in igloos made from blocks of snow, ride dog sleighs to work, and, as bad as weather may seem, winter takes up almost twelve out of the twelve months of the year. There are a few months in between filled with surprising weather where you can't predict when will happen the next day, and such variable patterns are especially true here at APH Networks Calgary. For those who live in this city, you will know what I am talking about. Generally speaking, we can safely say that Canada might as well be the cold Arctic in the north with strange weather patterns. So how is technology able to survive in such a country? Well, while our awesome weather can provide natural phase change cooling for pretty much anything and everything, I don't think electronics would appreciate all the snow, and neither would I appreciate sitting in the snow all day. After all, it is much more comfortable in my igloo. Being a Canadian citizen for quite a number of years now, there is a company that always easily pops into my mind when it comes to CPU cooling, and that is Arctic Cooling. Not 'arctic cooling' as in opening my window, but actually Arctic Cooling, the company. (Take that, global warming!) Let me remind you that not too long ago, we have reviewed one of Arctic Cooling's heatsinks -- specifically, the Arctic Cooling Freezer 13. Today, what we have next to it is its bigger brother, the Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro. I don't know about you, but as for myself, I always have a tendency of fighting with my younger brother over things, especially when we were young. But being the older one myself, in a completely unbiased and objective manner, it is usually the bigger brother who's better at these things. Therefore, as this logic carries forward in our review today, the question to ask is not whether the bigger Freezer 13 Pro is better than the little Freezer 13. The question to ask is how much better is the Freezer 13 Pro. Read on to find out what we have found!
Evercool seems to have hit upon a good cooling design with the HPK-10025EA. Finally a small, low profile cooler has arrived that can really perform better than the OEM unit without breaking the bank. Available online for as little as $25 US, this little heatsink is a very good value, provided you don't expect too much of it, wattwise.
Nach dem Proliamatechs Platzhirsch "Megahalems" die komplette Kühlerwelt auf den Kopf stellte, schickt sich Prolimatech nach den beiden ebenfalls sehr leistungsstarken Kühlern "Armageddon" und der Weiterentwicklung des "Megahalems" dem "Super Mega" mit dem neuen "Genesis" erneut an, die Führung im hart umkämpften Markt für CPU Kühlung zu übernehmen. Das junge Unternehmen wurde zwar erst 2008 gegründet, doch hinter Prolimatech steht ein Team mit 22 Jahren Erfahrung in dieser Branche. Nachdem Prolimatech bis jetzt mit noch keinem Produkt enttäuschen konnte, liegen die Erwartungen in den "Genesis" sehr hoch deswegen möchte ich jenen Kühler auf Herz und Nieren testen und herausfinden ob Prolimatech seine eigenen Meisterstücke den "Megahalems" bzw. den "Super Mega" schlagen kann.
Noctua is a company known for making quality and well performing CPU Coolers, some of the best on the market today surely. They’ve recently introduced a new cooler called the NH-C14 which gets its name from the ‘C’ shape that the cooler is. The NH-C14 comes equipped with two Noctua NF-P14 140mm fans for excellent cooling performance. The two fans are mounted, one on top and one on the bottom, and you can configure it however you like; If you need more room beneath the cooler then just use the top fan. The NH-C14 is made to be versatile and have good performance at the same time.
The Auras Shagon ARC-118 heatsink is built around four 6mm diameter copper heatpipes and a 50x100mm aluminum fin stack. The heatsink features an exposed heatpipe base and utilizes a single 2400-1000RPM 92mm PWM fan for all its cooling needs. Since this heatsink is equipped with a 92mm fan, noise levels tend to be moderate at stock speeds and whisper quiet at minimum RPM. Total heatsink foot print is 101x88mm, its weight is 460 grams.
At the end of the day, the only problems with the NH D14 are the price (around £70) and the gargantuan size which can cause fitting problems with a selection of supporting hardware. Enter the NH U12P which received an update in recent months to Special Edition SE2 status. This cooler can be picked up for around the £50 mark in the UK, so there are substantial savings to be made.
The Breeze Pro USB fan from ARCTIC is a solid built product, comes with a low noise 92mm fan which produces a gentle breeze during hot Summer time, a knob from which we can set its speed and a 4-port USB 2.0 hub on the base; in case we need to connect devices to the hub which need more power, we need to connect to the base an additional power adapter, which is not included.
Außergewöhnliche Designs bei Kühlern sind keine Seltenheit. Wirklich selten sind jedoch die Versuche von Herstellern, mit purer Größe starke Kühlleistungen zu erzielen. Der Vorreiter dieser Kühlmonster dürfte der Scythe Orochi sein, welcher sich gerade für den passiven oder semi-passiven Betrieb sehr gut eignete. Einen ähnlichen Kühler hat nun silentmaxx mit dem BigBlock auf den Markt gebracht. So haben die Spezialisten für leise und lautlose Systeme dem Kühler zehn Heatpipes und eine Kühlfläche von 5850 Quadratzentimetern spendiert, dadurch soll sich der BigBlock besonders gut für den leisen und lautlosen Betrieb eignen. Für alle, die dann doch etwas Belüftung am Kühler benötigen legt silentmaxx noch einen leisen 120-mm-Lüfter bei. Wie sich der silentmaxx BigBlock auf unserem Testsystem schlägt, zeigen wir euch auf den folgenden Seiten.
Let’s test the Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU cooler, which has a tower heatsink, three direct-touch heatpipes and a 120 mm fan.
Wer auf der Suche nach einem neuen VGA Kühler ist, wird nicht um die Produkte von Arctic Cooling herum kommen. So war es auch bei uns, als wir für unsere Radeon HD 6950 Grafikkarte ein passendes Modell gesucht haben. Wie der Kühler abgeschnitten hat, könnt ihr im passenden Artikel lesen.
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