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Category - Watercooling
Today, for the first time, an AiO water cooler from Lian Li finds its way onto my testbench, a really interesting model. By the way, Lian Li has also changed the OEM, so all-clear. Asetek instead of Apaltek. And so that it doesn’t get too exciting, we’ll start without further ado! Packaging and scope of delivery Dark printed and in a [...]
Raijintek’s products have always been able to shine with a very good price-performance ratio in recent years. No matter if it was cases, cooling solutions or fans, the testers always agreed that you get a lot of product for your money. Whether this is also the case with the Paean C7, you can read in the review. You can tell at first glance [...]
Announced months ago and already shown at CES, the C750 Air from Thermaltake’s new CTE series finally arrived shortly before Computex. What the gigantic Airflow Case has to offer and what there is to consider, you can read in the review. CTE stands for Centralized Thermal Efficiency – a design that blows cold air into the case from the [...]
Today only very quickly, because we had already tested this water cooler in detail recently. But since the manufacturer would also like to play with the “big ones”, the version with 360mm radiator follows. The detailed review of the small version can be found here: Packaging and scope of delivery Once again, the AiO is delivered in a [...]
With the 2000D Airflow, Corsair rounds out the current portfolio downwards and now also presents an extremely spacious case for the smallest form factor. Up to eight 120mm fans, a 360mm AIO and a tripple-slot GPU with a length of up to 36cm can be accommodated in 24.4 liters. You can read more about the drawbacks in the review. Short preface [...]
Today there is the refresh of the refresh, then with the new “Core” series of AiO water coolers Cooler Master wants to simultaneously offer a comparatively inexpensive cooling solution and also still replace the now 2 year old “V2” series. This was also a slightly updated version of its predecessor, so the [...]
At ITF World, a conference held by leading chip research company imec in Antwerp, Belgium, 3D-printed processor coolers in particular stood out. These prototype water blocks have the potential to improve the cooling capacity of high-density processors such as CPUs and GPUs by 3.5 times compared to the best CPU coolers available today. This allows [...]
First of all, I have to say that the part was not actually designed for the normal end customer, but for the industry and therefore certain features have to be excluded fairly from the start. But the Alphacool ES Orbiter 360 TS is mercilessly trimmed for performance and does exactly what you would expect from such a cooler. I’ve been using [...]
The AIO death continues: Lian Li Galahad 360 (1st version) with complete clogging (Purchase Warning)
I had already not made it easy for myself last year, but dealt with products from the OEM Apaltek for a long time, for example. A lot of well-known suppliers were affected, such as MSI, Enermax and Fractal. But the list could be continued. I already wrote about clogged coolers and hoses, defective pumps and the theory behind the cooling fluids and [...]
With the Gainward RTX 1660 Super (Susi), I am once again rescuing a graphics card that I had already tested extensively almost four years ago and that has also been in almost daily use since then. This ranges as a career ladder from the office to the recording PC (OBS) and the gaming use in the PC of my youngest son. And at some point the card got [...]
The problem with inaccurate flow sensors I had already questioned once, so I had resolved to check every now and then what has happened so. With the Alphacool ES flow and temperature sensor “HighFlow” with tachometer signal (what a terribly bulky name!) Alphacool has a flow sensor in the portfolio, which works amazingly accurate for [...]
Over three years after releasing the Z-series of water coolers, one of the first with an integrated display, NZXT now introduces a successor. The advantage from the unique selling proposition of that time no longer exists today, but the addition of “elite” raises great expectations. You can find out whether it can live up to them in [...]
With little bling-bling and an attractive price, my test series of Xilence coolers continues today. Recently, we just had an air cooler from this brand, and now another AiO water cooler follows. Whether the Xilence Performance X LiQuRizer LQ240PRO also turns out to be a simple insider tip, you can find out in the following article. And just by the [...]
Since we have already looked at the two smaller models, i.e. the inexpensive S70 and S80 with a 240mm radiator, we will only give the “big brother” a quick look today. This is visually identical to the S80 RGB, but has a larger radiator. In the following review, you can find out how Sharkoon’s first AiO water cooler compares [...]
Today we welcome another brand in the highly competitive market of AiO complete water coolers, as Sharkoon now also offers three models. I have often praised Sharkoon when it comes to peripherals, and you can read how the two models with 240mm radiators fared in my test in the following article. The last and larger model of the new triumvirate [...]
Today I am testing the fourth and for now last water block for NVIDIA’s top model with the Watercool Heatkiller V Pro on the GeForce RTX 4090 FE. And I can spoil it in advance: all four coolers are very close to each other and the actual differences are only in the appearance and in some areas in the temperature, depending on the block [...]
Today I’m testing the Alphacool Aurora Acryl GPX-N RTX 4090 FE Eisblock, the third water block for NVIDIA’s top-of-the-line model, and the picture is getting more and more solidified as to which cooler design is really good and usable. And this is where it gets really exciting: Alphacool’s cooler costs a whopping 90 to 100 Euros [...]
Today we are going to round two with the EK Quantum Vector2 FE RTX 4090 D-RGB. A GeForce RTX 4090 FE is per se well cooled and the original cooler is actually also perfectly sufficient. So one would hardly have a valid reason as a buyer to disassemble and rebuild this collectible. Well, almost none, because the weight and space requirements of [...]
No, it is not a contradiction, but transparent plastic tube (usually PVC) is cheap to buy, but really expensive in follow-up costs. Who can, prefer to go for hard tubing or such nice things as EPDM or Teflon, but there are also situations where you end up torn as to what it should be. And many a person is afraid to take anything other than PVC [...]