Items tagged with cooling
Case aficionados everywhere should pay attention to the latest entrant in Fractal Design's lineup. The scandinavian maker's Meshify series has always been popular, and the new Meshify 3 raises the bar in terms of style, ventilation, and customizability for your builds.
The newcomer's proverbial clothing is rather...
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While GPUs have been all the rage lately, CPUs deserve proper attention as they're vital to the gaming experience. XPG has unveiled its latest CPU cooler, the Ultimate LEVANTE II 360. This all-in-one liquid cooler is able to handle CPUs up to 320W TPD, which is quite the overhead for many products. AMD's popular Ryzen...
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The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max may be getting vapor chamber cooling to optimize the performance of their A19 Pro processors, according to a leaked source. If true, this will prove that Apple is finally taking CPU throttling seriously (especially due to heat build-up over time when playing AAA games or rendering video)...
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The picture above is not a Photoshop job—or at least, if it is, we didn't make it. It comes from a Taobao listing for a listing that Google assures us is "RTX4090 Graphics Card Adapter 16PIN 180 Degree Graphics Card Power Steering Head Turbo Cooling 4080/4070." Notably, the listing makes no mention of the GeForce RTX...
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Element Six (E6), a subsidiary of the ever-dominant De Beers Group, just put out a press release unveiling its new "Copper Diamond Composite Material" (Cu-Diamond composite), a material it claims can revolutionize cooling solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) chips and GaN RF devices. This shiny innovation...
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If you're eyeing a new build with an upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series GPU, you won't want to forget about your CPU, too. Cooler Master has unveiled two newly designed CPU coolers for both air and liquid cooling. The Masterliquid Core II comes in both 240mm and 360mm sizes for various PC builds, and plenty of that...
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By now, if you're reading this site, you've almost certainly seen plenty of the GeForce RTX 5090—and if you haven't, check out some of our past coverage. Contrary to expectations, the card and its cooler are actually incredibly small in comparison with the GeForce RTX 4090, to say nothing of the massive prototypes...
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Several major players in the PC space have made a splash at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, and that includes AMD, which unveiled an onslaught of new processors. We saw AMD expand its 3D V-Cache lineup with more desktop models and even some mobile "Fire Range" variants for laptops, but one chip that...
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With the rapid progress of technology, we've quickly learned that computers are absolutely dependent on thermals being under control. This can mean either with more efficient parts, like the newest generation CPUs, or it can also mean more efficient cooling methods. Ventiva is one such enterprise that is innovating in...
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If you're a connoisseur of great fans that also happen to be brown in color, Noctua has a treat coming your way. Together with Seasonic, it has unveiled the PRIME TX-1600 Noctua Edition. Noctua has been expanding beyond simple PC fans and into different (albeit related) areas, even including personal cooling fans for...
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Cryorig has somewhat quietly introduced a new and massive CPU air cooler called the Monster XX. There's no accompanying press release that we can find, but there is a product page, as well as a handful of posts on X/Twitter, one of which puts the call out for "cooler reviewers from every part of the world," presumably...
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With the impending launch of Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs seemingly around the corner, we are seeing many companies confirm product compatibility with the LGA1851 socket. As such, Noctua has confirmed which coolers in their line-up will be compatible and has also given instructions on how some users can get free upgrade...
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If you've every thought thermal paste was a bit boring, you would have been right...until today! Cooler Master for some reason or another has decided to paint a CPU using its multi-colored Cryofuze 5.
As seen in the video Cooler Master posted on its X account, the company is taking the marketing for its Cryofuze 5...
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Building a PC isn't all that difficult, and it gets exponentially easier once you've gone through your first rodeo. What's a little more challenging, however, is constructing a silent or ultra-low noise gaming PC, which requires a bit more research and more thoughtful effort towards cooling. To help you get there...
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There are many reasons why a graphics card (or any hardware component) may run hotter than expected, which in turn can lead to unwanted throttling. Insufficient cooling, dust buildup, and overly aggressive overclocks are just a few examples. It could also be the result of poor quality and sloppily applied thermal...
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If you're reading this site, Noctua almost assuredly needs no introduction to you. It's rare that Austria's premiere purveyor of puissant cooling apparatus actually launches a new product, and rarer still that it replaces its top-end, flagship cooler. That's exactly what's happening here, though: after many delays...
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Are you a stinky gamer in need of cooling this summer? Perhaps instead you're a tinkerer or DIYer that simply needs some spare fans around the house. Regardless of the situation, with hot temperatures fast approaching for the northern hemisphere, PC cooling brand Noctua has you covered. In an announcement today, the...
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The ASUS Strix GeForce RTX 4090 has one of the most gloriously massive coolers ever attached to a powerful GPU. It is long, wide, tall, and expansive in every other direction you can imagine for the simple sake of overkill-tier cooling. According to some recent murmurs from BenchLife, NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX...
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Most high-end PC components assume you want to show off—cases have windows, everything is crawling with RGB, and there are even connectors that make it easier to hide your cables. What if there aren't any cables, though? MSI has released a new PC case fan system that does away with cables. Well, almost—there are...
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Deviating from the stock cooler that came with your CPU (if it even came bundled with one) doesn't necessarily have to be a costly proposition. There's a thriving market of budget air coolers, and joining them is Arctic's newly unveiled Freezer 36 series offering a variety of trims. In addition to being aggressively...
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Aesthetics in one's PC build is a trend that is permanently here to stay, touching virtually every aspect of the build experience (hence why RGB is so popular). With transparent glass panels being common place, one key available space for a billboard-like spectacle is the CPU cooler area. Enter DeepCool's latest...
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Every year at CES, Cooler Master seems to push the boundaries of gaming and PC hardware, such as with the lineup of gaming cockpits and peripherals last year. While we are excited to see what else is in store at CES 2024, the first items off the press from Cooler Master are rather cool, pun intended. The Cooler Master...
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