Items tagged with cooling
Noctua, the renowned Austrian cooling specialist, has once again raised the bar with the official release of its flagship NF-A12x25 G2 next-generation 120mm fan. The NF-A12x25 G2—let's just call it the G2 from here on out—introduces a...
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After enjoying the success of its broad closed-loop cooling (CLC) patent for around 15 years, which expired on May 6, Asetek sent its engineers to the drawing board to come up with a new design to license to partners. In good Danish...
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Gen-Xers around here might remember the mighty Zalman Reserator, a literal tower of an external radiator/reservoir that you could hook up your liquid cooling setup to enjoy complete silence while your PC chugged away at full tilt. While...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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