Tag Archive for 'cooling'


Thursday, Jun 19th 2008 by Chris Scott Barr

When a new must-have graphics card comes out, you can end up dropping a lot of money to have the latest-and-greatest. Many people will want to hold off until prices drop, or just get an older card at a discount. However, if your machine must be the best and the fastest, why not take that [...]

Friday, May 2nd 2008 by Chris Davies

After AMD was forced to address the potential overheating issues experienced by the higher-speed processors in its Phenom X4 range earlier this week, new testing suggests that workarounds can be implemented so that the 9750 and 9850 chips will work with motherboards not using AMD’s recommended 790 chipset.  AnandTech found that, with four low-cost boards claiming [...]


Wednesday, Apr 30th 2008 by Chris Scott Barr

When you want to get the most performance out of your gaming rig, you’ll naturally want to try and overclock it. However, you have to deal with the excess heat put off by your CPU (or whatever component you’re overclocking). One option is to get a bigger heatsink and throw in some extra fans, which [...]

Friday, Mar 14th 2008 by Chris Scott Barr

PC gamers generally care about two things when it comes to their computer. They’re want to have the latest and greatest hardware, and they want it to run nice and cool. Unfortunately those two things don’t always go hand-in-hand, which is why you sometimes need to turn to a company like CoolIT for a [...]

Thursday, Mar 6th 2008 by James Allan Brady

Basically, what this is is a giant heat sink for the bottom of your notebook. It attracts the heat from the bottom of your notebook, and due to the metal it’s made out of, is able to dissipate the heat faster than your notebook or your lap.





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