Recently, be quiet! has given its most affordable CPU cooler a successor, which we will take a closer look at in the following article. How much cooler can you get for cheap and it is a good alternative 5 years later? Packaging and scope of delivery The box is, as typical for the manufacturer [...]
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PC-Cooling
Fans are a dime a dozen, but which fan fits which system? Is a model suitable as a case fan and how does it really perform on different radiators? What about the real speed range, how high is the start-up speed and what parameters does such a fan offer over the speed range, including the usually [...]
Case fans are a dime a dozen, but which fan fits which system? Is a model suitable as a case fan and how does it really perform on different radiators? What about the real speed range, how high is the start-up speed and what parameters does such a fan offer over the speed range, including the [...]
If you were able to purchase an RTX 3090 Founders Edition (FE) at launch for MSRP like I was, you can’t really complain. Ample performance for 144 FPS in most games even at the highest graphics settings and, if we’re being honest, the value increase of over 50%, naturally add to the [...]
After the 612 Stealth recently had to prove itself on the testbench, the big brother now follows. Find out how the block does in the article below: Packaging and scope of delivery The box is similar to the smaller cooler down to the last detail, but it is much bigger. A large product picture on the [...]
The same applies as already in the review of the model for the GeForce RTX 3080 reference: The market of all-in-one water cooling solutions for graphics cards is, compared to CPU coolers, still plenty manageable, although the possible gain compared to air cooling is significantly higher. Higher [...]
Despite the rather bumpy start with problems with the pump in the first generation, be quiet! not discouraged to once again establish its own AiO water cooling. So now they are launching a new, hopefully improved successor. And even though the longevity cannot be tested in a review, we will of [...]
The Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360 Sub-Zero is of course not a real cryo-cooling for really high loads, they don’t pretend to be, but it wants to guarantee such low temperatures in the partial load range that the highest possible boost clock rates can be run. That’s exactly what I [...]
After my last article about testing various thermal paste substitutes, I received some interesting feedback and even submissions from my readers, which I will gladly work through in chronological order. Besides great industrial pastes I first received a letter with copper paste and the request to [...]
With the newest members of the popular MasterAir series, Cooler Master wants to offer a cooler for elegant systems, which should also impress with high cooling performance. In the following review you will find out if the project was successful: Packaging and scope of delivery The exterior joins [...]
Already 10 years ago I had tested various things up to the adhesive cream for the third for their heat conductivity. However, this time I have modified the classics a bit and included other exotics in the test series – for a good reason. In fact, the test winner has been my absolute favorite [...]
It was only about a quarter of a year ago that the EK AIO Elite fought its way to the top of the cooling solutions in my charts, and now they are delivering what is now the third version for a lower price range with the Basic series. Completely black and without RGB lighting, it might not only be [...]
In early 2020, NZXT unveiled the Z series, the latest generation of its popular Kraken all-in-one water cooling systems, and its integrated display not only sparked a new trend among other manufacturers, but also a whole wave of funny pictures on social media. Whether the most expensive compact [...]
I had recently received a CPU water block from the RMA of a friendly dealer, which I should investigate. Please “take a closer look”. That’s exactly what I did after my first inspection, because although you could see the dirt with the naked eye – how about some really fancy [...]
A proper water cooling makes sense for power losses over 300 watts and thus creates a real added value. With the Kryographics Next, Aqua Computer continues on its path of precisely crafted coolers and offers a GPU water block for NVIDIA’s current GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 refernce boards [...]
When you hear the name G.Skill, the vast majority of people will think of memory. A few may still have peripherals in the form of a mouse, keyboard and headset. But coolers? That’s new! So it was a big surprise when I was shown the new ENKI series and offered it for testing. With the power of [...]
If you are in urgent need of a new computer, you have to put up with the extreme prices on the one hand and the limited availability of the components on the other. It’s annoying, but it’s not likely to change anytime soon. Because you can’t always choose the time of an upgrade [...]
The name Hyper 212 should ring a bell with many, especially enthusiasts from the Sandy Bridge era. And even though the dusty Evo variant is soon approaching its 10-year anniversary and still actively sold, the roots of this cooler series even go back to 2007. In order to meet the modern demands [...]
The cooler in today’s article is once a real exotic, even in the range of Scythe. With almost gigantic dimensions (almost the width of an ATX mainboard) and no consideration for compatibility of other components, the Ninja 5 has many interesting aspects, not only the surprisingly low price [...]
The second water block I tested was the Hydro Series XG7 RGB, a product from Corsair for NVIDIA’s large Ampere cards. Interestingly, the interest of most manufacturers in detailed tests is now rather restrained, because especially the comparison series of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has shown [...]
The Mugen 5 is one of the most popular air coolers on the German market, only just behind the already tested Scythe Fuma 2 in the bestsellers. Depending on the variant, a bit smaller, a bit cheaper and one fan less, the standard fare seems to please buyers. In the following article you will find [...]
In my review of SilentiumPC’s Navis EVO AiO water cooling I already briefly touched on the company’s “effective design and smart cost reduction” philosophy, today I have a really good example of a practical implementation of this resolution in front of me. Whether the [...]
For cheap air coolers with real coldplate instead of direct-touch heatpipe, the selection is quite small, Scythe has with the Kotetsu Mark II in the “normal” and Asus TUF variant one of the few candidates in the offer. How the little brother of the already tested Fuma 2 does in the [...]
Actually, Gigabyte has done almost everything right with the GTX 980 Ti Xtreme Gaming Waterforce, because the performance and the overclockability have impressed us - as well as other colleagues of international media, who could also get hold of a copy -...
The heat-conducting paste business is a very profitable one, it was, is and will probably remain so. But what does the K-value, which PR likes so much, really mean? We'll calculate what temperature gains or losses you can or must really expect.
