Category - Fans

Alder Lake’s cooling problem straightened out by 5 degrees! – Simple ILM-Mod for Intel’s LGA-1700 socket | Practice

Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs run hot, very hot. A few weeks ago, Igor had already identified the bending of the CPU and motherboard due to the LGA1700 socket as a potential cause for this. Today I’ll show you a simple modification that can gain up to 5 °C in CPU core temperatures, and it almost couldn’t be simpler. Thanks (again) to [...]


Alphacool Rise Aurora 140 mm ARGB fan Review – It blows up (almost) everything and removes dust even from the thickest radiator

A speed band like an XXL braces, paired with a lot of pressure and throughput that does not break away even on the thickest radiator – the Alphacool Rise Aurora 140 mm thus recommends itself as a real radiator fan. The performance is more than restrained, it’s downright brute. Today’s test will have to clarify whether and with [...]


It gets better and better – Scythe Kaze Flex 120 ARGB case fan up to 1800 RPM, lots of pressure, extreme thirst and surprisingly little noise

I’m always amazed at how much has and is happening in the case fan field lately. With the Scythe Kaze Flex 120 ARGB one sends nowmahe also in this country an illuminated bolide into the race, which is to appear emphatic and determined, however not too loudly. The fact that it also illuminates the waste heat in a nice colourful way is a nice [...]