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Enermax have decided to take a daring entry into the CPU cooler market. Will their 200+W ETS-T40-VD CPU cooler gamble pay off?
Usually when a CPU cooler is reviewed here at the Shrimps we are talking about high end big and bulky models. Dual towers, triple fan equipped, the bigger the better. But what about for them that are building a high performance HTPC or eg a mini cube ? Do they have to rely solely on the included boxed coolers ? I had the privilege to build a Mine LAN PC inside a Lian Li V353 Cube shaped case. Most important factor was the build's size, not at the cost of performance. The choice of components was pretty high end : Asus Maximus IV Gene, Intel 2600K, 16Gb of Corsair ram, 120 Corsair GT SSD and a Nvidia GTX560 GPU. More than suitable for casual gaming purposes. After the build was completed, we noticed, during stability testing, that the CPU got pretty hot. And it was still running at out of the box speeds. Time to look for a beefier cooling solution Our eye fell onto Cooler Masters' latest low profile CPU cooler : The GeminII M4 CPU cooler.
Today it’s the Cooler Master Gemin II SF524. A mixture of high performance and top down cooler. We’ve seen quite a few companies try this style of cooler and they have some real advantages such as being able to cool RAM modules or the VRM area. The disadvantage is that the heat has further to travel along the heatpipes compared to a tower style cooler. Will that affect the results? Only one way to find out.
Recently, we published a test where we tried to find out which position of a case fan is the best for CPU temperatures. Now, let's expand this experiment, comparing the temperatures of the computer "hot spots" under different case fan configurations. Check it out!
If you are fortunate enough to have bought a new AMD graphics card, then today’s review will be of particular interest. Arctic have just released a cooling solution which is compatible with the new range of AMD graphics cards, including the latest award winning HD7970 and HD7950. The idea is simple – replace your cooler and benefit from reduced noise and temperatures.
Wer auf der Suche nach einem hochleistungsstarken VGA Kühler ist, wird um die Modelle von ARCTIC nicht herum kommen. Dieser Hersteller baut seit Jahren hochwertige Kühler, die an Stelle der verbauten Default Modelle montiert werden können. Aus der aktuellen Serie haben wir uns den Accelero TwinTurbo II etwas genauer angesehen und auf einer Zotac GTX 560 Ti 448 LE getestet.
Vor kurzem präsentierten wir schon ein Review zum Neueinsteiger Shagon'. Der AHC-118 baute auf einen 120-mm-Lüfter und sechs Heatpipes. Des Weiteren war er von den Abmaßen kein Winzling und kann bei einigen Gehäusen zu Problemen führen. Shagon' hat deswegen zeitgleich einen kleineren Kühler veröffentlicht, den ARC-118. Dieser baut auf einen 92-mm-Lüfter und nur vier Heatpipes, die ebenfalls wie beim großen Bruder mittels H.D.T. die Abwärme direkt vom Prozessor aufnehmen. Was man vom kleineren der beiden Kühler erwarten kann und ob er besser abschneidet als der AHC-118, klären wir im folgenden Review.
Enermax ist in erster Linie für seine hochwertigen und effizienten Netzteile bekannt. Im Laufe der letzten Jahre wagte sich der taiwanesische PC-Komponenten-Hersteller in andere Bereiche vor. So hat man mittlerweile neben den beliebten Netzteilen, Gehäusen, Lüftern und Tastaturen seit neuestem auch CPU-Kühler im Angebot. Durch den Erfolg der zahlreichen Lüfter-Reihen scheint der ETS-T40 für Enermax eine konsequente Erweiterung des hauseigenen Portfolios darzustellen. Wie das Erstlingswerk in den Performance-Tests abschneidet werden wir im Verlauf des Artikels klären.
Technic3D hat den Scythe Mugen 3 CPU-Kühler im Test. Hier muss er sich gegen die aktuelle Konkurrenz durchsetzen. Wie der Klassiker hierbei abschneidet, steht im nachfolgenden Testbericht.
While it is important to be outstanding on paper, practical excellence is what that keeps you going in the long run. Take cars, for example. Yes, I will admit most of us here are not exactly the biggest fans of Hyundai and Kia, and we do frequently take jabs at their products, but the reason is because we have actually test driven them in an objective manner. We were not paid to say anything good about them, nor were we swayed by all the irrational praise by many automotive media outlets. The point is, while it looks like you are getting a lot of car for the money simply by reading the specifications sheet, it does not really mean you are getting a lot of car for the money. Stuff like a rough, gutless engine, poorly programmed transmission, wipers that don't work very well, uncomfortable seats, and real world fuel economy that is nothing like EPA ratings are just a few things I can name right off my head that you can't determine by looking at the window sticker. In the same way, here at APH Networks, we have always been huge proponents of Noctua fans -- not because they have the highest CFM rating or lowest dB values on paper, but because they provide most competitive airflow at the lowest amount of perceivable noise in real life. You know, more like the big H rather than the slanted H of the computer cooling world. How well does the Noctua NF-P12 PWM and Noctua NF-F12 PWM live up to the legacy set by its predecessors? To find out, we took three of each in, and put them to the tests.
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