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The long wait has finally ended. Sapphire finally delivers the Vapor-X CPU cooler for its world debut. We're a bit late to the game, but with good reason.
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Après avoir trainé les pieds dans l'eau avec tous ces kits de watercooling, nous avions besoin d'air. C'est un vent chaud et sec en provenance d'Allemagne qui vient nous sécher les pattes, soufflé par le Gotthard d'Alpenföhn. La marque allemande, qui fait ses premiers pas au Comptoir, nous livre là un imposant top flow. Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas ce format, il s'agit d'un radiateur plat au travers duquel l'air frais est injecté par le haut et dont le principal avantage est son encombrement réduit (en hauteur surtout). Traditionnellement moins performant qu'un modèle au format tour, nous avions découvert le NH-C14 qui rattrapait alors cet écart de performances. Le modèle d'Alpenföhn nous propose trois zones de dissipation, six caloducs et un ventilateur de 140mm ; rien que ça pour tenter de semer la zizanie dans un secteur dominé par Noctua. Le Gotthard va-t-il laisser des ailettes dans ce duel germanique ? On vous le dit juste après la description de l'engin.
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Xigmatek aren't a brand known that well for their fans but they do actually delve quite a lot into the cooling market making a wide variety of CPU coolers and fans. Xigmatek are more well known for their cases of which we have tested many including recently the Asgard 381, Midgard II and Elysium.
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The SilverStone HE02 is SilverStone’s first entry into the passive CPU cooler market and comes at a time where SilverStone has recently been releasing a number of new products in their CPU cooler lineup (a product line that sat dormant for a number of years before coming back to life). The HE02 is compatible with all current Intel and AMD platforms and also carries a very reasonable price for the true silence it offers.
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The Katana 4 performs better than the Cooler Master Hyper T4 and Hyper TX3, both in terms of cooling and noise. The Scythe Ashura cools very well when its fan is turning at high speed, but it's also noisy. When the fan is at low speed, the cooler is completely quiet, but also cools poorly.
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After previously testing the impressive Neptwin cooler from this brand, we received six more. A couple of these provide very good value for your money.
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IPhobya are a big name that we would traditionally associated with water cooling products like radiators, yet water cooling needs fans to work so it isn't surprising that Phobya have an extensive range of fans to choose from. The fans we have today from Phobya cover a wide variety of usage scenarios with a Red LED fan, a slimline fan for space constrained systems and a Noiseblocker fan for a great compromise between noise and performance.
Phobya aren't a brand we have encountered much before here at eTeknix and in fact I am not sure if we have ever tested any of their products before. But today we have a trio of fans from Phobya in for review. First up we have the Phobya Nano-2G 12 PWM 1500RPM Red LED fan. Next we have the Phobya G-Silent 12 Slim Edition 1800RPM fan and finally we have the Phobya NB-eLoop 1600RPM Bionic fan. We will be giving these fans our usual treatment and conducting tests with them in push-pull to bring you comparable results of 11 120mm fans in total.
Without any further ado let us take a look around each fan, its packaging and contents before giving you a performance and acoustic summary.
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Scythe delivers the Ashura, a user-friendly and compact heatsink that doesn't sacrifice performance.
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VGA coolers are in my opinion becoming quite niche and almost extinct - particularly when it comes to air VGA coolers. This is because graphics card vendors have come a long way in terms of the cooling solutions they offer - ASUS' DC2, MSI's TF2 and EVGA's ACX to name but a few excellent cooling solutions. As a result it seems almost foolish to spend lots of money, time, effort and voiding your warranty to equip a custom VGA cooler. In terms of water blocks for graphics cards, these are still widespread because water cooling needs water blocks.
However, even with that quite gloomy stance on VGA coolers, air VGA coolers still have their place in the market. For example you may have bought a reference design graphics card and you just aren't happy with the temperatures or acoustics - or you may have bought at custom cooled one that doesn't cool the VRM and VRAM well enough or is just too big or long. This is where custom reference solutions like the Prolimatech MK-26 come in to play.
Prolimatech's MK-26 is one of the most impressive VGA coolers I have ever laid eyes on to date just on the basis of sheer size. It supports two 140 or 120mm fans, has six 6mm heat pipes and an extremely large and dense heatsink stack. I'm expecting great things from the Prolimatech MK-26.
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Silverstone ist den meisten Enthusiasten vor allem dank der hochwertigen PC-Gehäuse ein Begriff. Aber auch in anderen Sparten wie im Kühlerbereich hat sich das Unternehmen schon längst einen Namen gemacht. So brachte Silverstone erst letztes Jahr eine neue Kühler-Serie mit dem Namen "Heligon" auf den Markt. Die Kunden durften sich über zwei edle Kühl-Konstrukte in unterschiedlichem Designs freuen. Nun macht sich der Hersteller daran, den Betrieb mit einer Reihe klassischer Turm-Kühler aufzumischen - der Argon-Serie.
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