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Last I remember from Zalman, I was testing the CNPS10X coolers, of which there were four versions in total - two of which I got to look at personally. There was the Performa and the Extreme, both of which were typical tower based designs with a top cover and other tricks specific to the series. The cooler we are about to see takes on some of the attributes of these coolers, but harks back to the CNPS7 series of coolers for its outer appearance. You might even say both got their concept for the CNPS5, but we aren't splitting hairs here and it looks much more like the 7 series.
The Lich King was the master and lord of the Scourge, and he ruled over them telepathically from the Frozen Throne on top of Icecrown. Well, I guess until I killed him about a year ago, but that is beside the point. The Thermaltake Frio OCK, a strange name for a product, literally means Cold Over-clocker King (sic). So what does an undead lord have to do with CPU cooling? Absolutely nothing; however, I couldn't help but notice the similarities between the two of them. Anyone who has played Warcraft 3 or World of Warcraft would certainly know what gave me the idea of putting them together. The real question is whether or not the Lich King can keep my Core i7-2600K pleasantly chilled? With Thermaltake boasting a title of king, it leaves for some very high expectations. As I'm sure many of the readers know, practical overclocking is not just about speed. It is a balance between performance, heat dissipation, stability, and to some extent, sound. This means for an air cooler to be considered king, it would need to do exceptionally well in at least three of categories listed. Obviously, the Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler, reviewed by my colleague Jonathan back in January 2010, comes to mind as the challenger to the Thermaltake Frio OCK. As it turns out, in Jonathan's other review, the "regular" Frio was only a few degrees warmer than the NH-D14. I'm curious to see if the "OCK version" can prove to the NH-D14 who is really the master of the undead when it comes to cooling, so read on to find out!
DeepCool are a cooling brand who up until the not so distant past were relatively unheard of. When the time was correct, they wisely chose to enter the market and successfully built their way up to becoming a recognised contender among the cooling giants. Their product library now consists of CPU, VGA, HDD, Server and notebook coolers along with other goods such as case fans and iPad accessories.
The max cooling capacity of the Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro heatsink is listed at 300 Watts by the manufacturer; far, far and away beyond the heat output of any desktop processor. This time around Arctic have released a tower-style heatsink standing 159mm tall and weighing 893 grams. The CPU cooler comes with a small 50mm fan mounted to the baseplate in addition to a primary 120mm fan that rotates at 1350-900RPM.
Mit zahlreichen gelungenen Kühlerkreationen hat sich die EKL-Endkundenmarke Alpenföhn in den vergangenen Jahren zur echten Größe am Markt etabliert. Der neuste Spross des Hauses hört auf den Namen Himalaya und möchte mit schlanker Radiatorform, hoher Material- und Verarbeitunsgüte sowie leiser 140-mm-Lüfterausstattung hoch hinaus. ComputerBase testet den Alpenföhn Himalaya.
Schon seit einigen Jahren herrscht praktisch Stagnation im Hause der Luftkühler. Die letzte große Schlacht lieferten sich zwei verschiedene Bauweisen: Towerkühler, mit parallel zum Mainboard verlaufendem Luftstrom, und Modelle in Top-Blow Bauweise, bei der die Hautplatine mit frischer Luft versorgt wird. Tech-Review hat Noctuas Top-Blow-Kühler NH-C14 durch den Testparcour gejagt. Viel Spaß beim Lesen!
Ein spezieller Kühler Hersteller ist am Computer-Markt nicht mehr weg zu denken. Die Rede ist von Alpenföhn, die mit ihren Kühlern ständig für frischen Wind am Markt sorgen. Es erscheinen in regelmäßigen Abständen neue und kreative Modelle, die für Furore sorgen. Einer davon ist der Alpenföhn Triglav, den wir euch heute näher vorstellen wollen.
The Gelid GX-7 heatsink stands 158mm tall and ships with a variable speed PWM fan internally illuminated by several very bright blue LEDs. The lights make a nice impression on the spinning blue fan blades which feature novel little 'wing tips'. Beyond that, the GX-7 would look like any other tower format heat sink except for one trick up its sleeve - stacked heatpipes.
On the test bench today is Glacialtech's Igloo H46 heatsink - a tower style exposed heatpipe base CPU cooler that marks one of the best efforts for this Taiwanese thermal solutions manufacturer to date. Standing 158mm tall, the Glacialtech Igloo H46 heatsink ships with one 120mm PWM fan but is capable of accommodating a second rear-mounted fan (clips provided) should users wish to operate two fans at reduced speed and decrease fan noise overall. The Igloo H46's bright yellow fan impeller spins at 1600-800RPM. Weighing in at 560 grams, the Glacialtech Igloo H46 heatsink installs onto Intel socket 775/1155/1156/1366 and AMD socket AM2/AM3/FM1 processors.
Maingear prides themselves on delivering premium quality products along with thorough and personal support for the systems and is why they went to CoolIT to partner up to design a custom solution to fit inside of the SilverStone RV01 chassis. We all know that SilverStone long ago jumped ahead of the curve and started cooling their cases with 180mm fans. This gave Maingear a unique opportunity that they took full advantage of. Maingear could have followed suit with Corsair, Antec, CoolIT, or Asetek and just deliver the standard 120mm solution that we have seen in many, many forms, even one with a dual 120mm radiator! For Maingear that wasn't enough, they want to deliver their customers something even better.
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