Month: August 2010

GELID Icy Vision Dual Fan VGA Cooler

The GELID Icy Vision is an impressive GPU cooler equipped with 5 copper heatpipes, a sizable fin stack, dual 92 mm fans, and compatibility with some of the hottest graphics cards on the market including the Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTX 480.

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Silverstone Sugo SG07: The Ultimate Mini-ITX Case?

The Silverstone Sugo SG07 is an impressive cube/breadbox style mini-ITX case with a large 18 cm fan for cooling, a 600W 80 PLUS Bronze ATX power supply, and enough room for an extra long graphics card as well as a moderately-sized CPU cooler.

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Fanless PSU Torture Test Roundup

A roundup torture test of samples from every fanless power supply line in the marketplace instigated by the Seasonic X-400 Fanless, which cruised through 15 hours of full-load operation at nearly 60°C temperature in the “case”. Which fanless PSUs can actually deliver rated power with virtually no forced airflow?

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Zotac H55-ITX-C-E: Stacked LGA1156 Mini-ITX Motherboard

The Zotac H55-ITX-C-E is ambitious product offering an unprecedented feature-set for an LGA1156 mini-ITX mainboard, including PCIe 16x, 6 SATA ports and USB 3.0.

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Seasonic X-400 Fanless PSU

The Seasonic X-400 Fanless is based on the successful, 80 Plus Gold X-series platform introduced late last year. Company reps say the new fanless PSU was years in the making; ultimately, they had to await the development of a super-efficient platform. It was worth the wait.

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Samsung 2TB EcoGreen F3 Hard Drive

In contrast to Samsung’s highly visible marketing efforts in other sectors, its hard drives run virtually stealthed in the marketplace. They’ve long been prized for low noise by SPCR aficionados, however. We tackle the biggest of their F3 EcoGreen models, in response to popular demand.

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Scythe Ninja 3 & Scythe Yasya CPU Heatsinks

A pair of Scythe heatsinks battle for a place amongst the best CPU coolers. The Ninja 3 seeks to bring prestige back to its family, while the sharp Scythe Yasya attempts to cut up the competition.

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