PC-Cooling

Noiseblocker NB-eLoop X B12-PS ARGB PWM Review – Not cheap but quiet and colourful | Lab test with sound samples

Just under 28 euros is not cheap, but still significantly cheaper than an ARGB fan from Corsair. Blacknoise advertises the Noiseblocker BP12x-PS-BL PWM ARGB as a particularly quiet running bionic fan, which relies on the proven rotor blade design and a magnetic barometric bearing. The whole rotor is not white, but transparent and is illuminated [...]


SilentiumPC Fera 5 CPU air cooler in test – cool insider tip?

We already had a good air cooler from SPC in the form of the large Grandis 3 in review, the newest member of the compact Fera series should now also perform well. Whether you should give in to the temptingly low price, you will find out in the following article: Packaging and scope of delivery They curiously sent me both versions of the cooler [...]


Unleashed unicorn on a flight of fancy – Shunt-Mod for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 FE and the Alphacool Eisblock GPX-N | Practice

As threatened last week, the Alphacool ice block GPX-N won’t be the only modification to my RTX 3090 Founders Edition. Today we’re going to look at the shunt resistors, the ones the GPU uses to measure how much power it’s consuming and if necessary downclocks itself if Nvidia’s limits of 350 or 400 W are reached. While [...]


be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 2 Review – small, quiet and inexpensive

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, designed in black and only the orange in the logo and [...]


The marathon starts: Review with 6 case and radiator fans from be quiet! Black Noise, Corsair, Cooler Master, Noctua and Thermaltake

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 unavoidable noise emission? Exactly for all these [...]


Practical case fan tests on igorsLAB – How we test and evaluate | Basics

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 usually unavoidable noise emission?  Exactly for all [...]


Hot-headed unicorn under water – Alphacool Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-N for Nvidia RTX 3090 Founders Edition | Installation and Test

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 appreciation. Only, as is so often the case, there [...]


The sub-zero number: Intel Core i9-11900K vs. Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360 Sub-Zero – the impossibility of the dreamed possible

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 tried to find out in a short test, because especially [...]


Copper paste better than thermal paste? Myth busted – a bit | practice

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 test it. Why not? Copper is not the worst material [...]


EK Waterblocks EK AIO Basic 240 and EK AIO Basic 360 Review – Pleasant dark cooler instead of RGB bombardment

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 interesting for price-conscious buyers. Whether the [...]


Aqua Computer Kryographics Next for GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Reference Design Review – Solid GPU water block for a hot card

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 that even manages without thermal pads on the [...]


Scythe Ninja 5 in the test – Cooling colossus with space problems

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. How the big brother of the Fuma 2 does in the test [...]


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