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 [...]
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 the already known design of the manufacturer, here [...]
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 [...]
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 water cooler on the market can also keep up in terms [...]
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 macro shots of the horror? And since there was [...]
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 [...]
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 the Sumerian god of water and no less than three [...]
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, or the conditions never really fit 100% anyway [...]
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 (namely optics and RGB), Cooler Master has added a [...]
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 [...]
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 very clearly that RGB and bling-bling do not help [...]
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 out how the cooler compares to the competition and [...]
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 largest cooler of the manufacturer can prove itself in [...]
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 test, reveals the following article: Packaging / Scope [...]
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.
AMD in detail we have gone through and we had already talked about the heatspreaders of the current generations, a burn-in and the thing with the camber. Now finally follows the picture gallery for the individual Intel CPUs. Basic article, “CPU heatspreaders examined in detail – do we need to rethink AMD and Intel now?“ Picture [...]
We already talked about the heatspreaders of the current generations, a burn-in and the thing with the cloud. For that, I’m also happy to link again to the basic article “CPU heatspreaders examined in detail – do we need to re-design the coolers for AMD and Intel now?” But what was in the time before, back then. when CPUs [...]
I had already announced a long time ago that I would continue to work on the topic of heatspreaders. However, I myself do not have the measuring equipment in the micrometer range that would allow a clear statement, so I gratefully resorted to the help offered by a German research center. It was simply important to me to support the assumptions I [...]
Even though the title may sound a bit martial and exaggerated – it’s the bitter reality if you really want to compare PC cases objectively in the thermal and acoustic area. And that’s all this article is about. Of course, subjective factors such as looks, build quality and usability also count towards the content of a good review [...]
