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Although the traditional tower type CPU Air Coolers have reached their maximum possible cooling potential based on today’s technology that doesn't mean manufacturers are just going to give up in their pursue for something better. Obviously that's always a good thing for consumers around the world especially since competition always results in even better products and lower prices but one has to wonder how long it will be before manufacturers come up with new and innovative ways of cooling. That being said for the majority of consumers even low/mid-end CPU Air Coolers are more than enough to keep their systems running at good temperatures while for the most demanding ones there are always higher performance complete water cooling kits available in the market. However there are also some CPU Air Coolers capable of meetings the demands of even the most demanding users around and according to Deepcool the Lucifer is amongst them.
I have seen just about every variation on materials, angles, bling and fans in what is readily available on the market in notebook cooling products. From the days of a beanbag strapped to a piece of wood, set on your lap, just to keep the heat away, cooling tech has come a long way. The frame materials are either a choice of aesthetic appeal, or you go with plastic due to budgetary reasons. Either way is no better than the other, as long as the frame is sturdy and vibration free. The lighting and hocus pocus that sells some coolers, doesn't need apply really. For the down to basics idea of "cooling" the laptop, "bling" does very little to cool anything. So essentially it all comes down to the fan or fans in the unit that are going to make the biggest difference in any notebook cooler.
Welcher Besitzer einer High-End Grafikkarte kennt das nicht: Kaum wird es Sommer und die Temperaturen steigen müssen die Lüfterdrehzahlen des eigenen Rechenknechts teilweise deutlich angehoben werden, um der zusätzlichen Wärme gerecht zu werden. Besonders die aktuell recht hitzköpfigen 3D-Beschleuniger werden damit öfters störend laut. Scythe, Thermalright und EKL Alpenföhn haben mit ihren aktuellen Produkten die Messlatte im jeweiligen Leistungs- respektive Preisbereich ein gutes Stück angehoben. Etwas ruhiger war es in letzter Zeit um den Schweizer Kühlerspezialist Arctic. Doch damit ist nun Schluss. Genau richtig zur hitzigen Sommerzeit bringt Arctic mit dem Accelero Xtreme II Plus und dem Accelero Twin Turbo II zwei neue vielversprechende Kühlermodelle in Stellung, die wir in unserem Test auf Herz und Nieren, pardon Heatpipes und Lamellen testen wollen.
Deepcool's Ice Matrix 600 heatsink is a relatively flat profile tower cooler that stands 165mm tall, 70mm deep. It weighs upwards of 1100grams and is built with no fewer than six, U-shaped 6mm diameter copper heatpipes that wind their way from the copper base plate to the top of the 103mm tall aluminum fin stack. The heatpipes are lined up in a single row so closely that they almost span the entire 141mm width of the heatsink!
Today were taking a look at the Hoplite ST chassis from Enermax. We managed to get hold of the white edition of the chassis for the review and priced at around £70 it's set nicely between the mid budget and premium build chassis in terms of cost. So I'm expecting a decent level of build quality, features and performance from this chassis as £70 is still a lot of money.
Spire's Gemini SP986B1-V2-2P heatsink is a minor variation on the popular Eclipse II tower heatsink design, the most notable difference being a novel bifurcated fin stack. To 'bifurcate' means to split into two... so in other words, the fin stack is split down the middle and the fin edges are closed off so air can only pass through the heatsink from front-to-back. This unique 'ducting' approach essentially creates two independent fin towers connected by six, 6mm diameter U-shaped sintered metal wick copper heatpipes.
Der aus Deutschland stammende Hersteller Alpenföhn konnte in den letzten Jahren nicht nur in puncto Innovationen glänzen, denn auch durch die für die eigenen Produkte gewählten Namen besitzt der Hersteller inzwischen einen gewissen Kultfaktor. Manch Leser dürfte bei Alpenföhn sofort an den Groß Clock’ner, den Brocken oder die Heidi denken. Mit dem neuen und wieder einmal namentlich passenden Föhn 120 Wing Boost möchte der Hersteller nun auch bei den High-End-Lüftern ein Wörtchen mitreden. Ob dies gelingt klären wir im nachfolgenden Review.
It’s been awhile since we introduced a DeepCool product and boy have they been busy in the meantime. If you don’t remember or never knew, DeepCool is a Shenzhen, China based company specializing in thermal solutions. While they have been in operation since 1996, they are just beginning to enter the mainstream US market for aftermarket cooling. Of course since they are suppliers to Dell, Fujitsu, Siemens, Osram, and others there is a good chance that you have actually used some of their products in the past. In the time between our last review and now they have brought many new products to market, as well as expanded their global reach. You can now find some of their products on mainstream US PC supply sites. Today we will be taking a close look at one of their most recently released products, the Gammaxx S40. Designed to bring big cooling in a small form factor, lets find out just how well DeepCool has been doing.
A couple of weeks ago a company that we hadn’t heard much about before asked if we would like to look at some of their fans. So imagine our surprise when a huge box, about the size you would expect for a PC case, arrived from said company.
We are finally half way through the summer and i can't really say I’ll be missing it, not when temperatures here reach up to 43 degrees Celsius. Certainly each season offers different things and although i love the sea i have to admit that I’m more of a winter person myself as are most people i know (especially the ones who do the same job). However since we are still in the summer period i can't think of a more suitable review than a review surrounding one of the latest CPU Coolers to hit the market and more specifically the SB-E (Sandy bridge-E) compatible version of the award winning Archon by Thermalright.
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