After two and a half years of heatsink reviews, we finally tackle one from the most prolific of aftermarket CPU cooler brands. Thermaltake’s Silent Tower is one of the new breed of tall heatpipe-equipped designs with fan airflow that goes across the board rather than down or up. They’ve incorporated some nice design features and
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The Centurion 5 is a mid-tower case with the kind of great style that has made Coolermaster one of the top case design brands among PC enthusiasts. Not being silver, it is atypical for Coolermaster; in fact, only the facia has any aluminum, and it’s purple, not silver. We look past the unusual classy cosmetics
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The NV Silencer 5 faces the challenge of taming a hot Chaintech AA6800GT Apogee gaming video card in our look at a second new video card cooler from Arctic Cooling. Is it up to the cooling challenge? And does it achieve cool quietly? We share our findings in a dual product review.
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Since our review of the original VGA Silencer a year ago, Arctic Cooling wised up to the demand for similarly quiet cooling for all kinds of VGA cards, not just selected ATI cards. Hence the recent release of their second generation of video card coolers, called ATI or NV Silencers, eight models in all to
Read MoreYet another new high-end HSF from CoolerMaster loudly claiming “Ultra Silent” status, the Hyper 48 is large, all-copper, heatpipe equipped, comes with an integrated 92mm fan and with mounting hardware for sockets 478, K8 and 775. How does it fare in SPCR’s thermal, acoustic and airflow testing chamber?
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