Month: December 2014

Quiet Mini-ITX Gaming Build Guide #3: BitFenix Prodigy Edition

Our third quiet mini-ITX gaming build guide features the widely acclaimed BitFenix Prodigy, a largish chassis that can accommodate a variety of larger components.

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Quiet Mini-ITX Gaming Build Guide #2: NCASE M1 Edition

Our second mini-ITX gaming build guide is centered around creating a powerful yet quiet system inside the ultra small, limited edition NCASE M1 case. Don’t let the wee photo fool you; the M1 is less than half the size of the Rosewill W1-S case you’ve seen recently in a similar photo on these snippet pages.

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Journey to a Silent MicroATX Gamer

Another new quiet gaming PC build guide, this time featuring a Zotac GTX 970 in the unusual Corsair Air 240 MicroATX case. It is a journey, complete with scientific side trips to explore airflow impedance and its effects on cooling and noise.

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Swiftech H240-X CPU Liquid Cooling Kit

The Swiftech H240-X is an interesting high-end open loop liquid CPU cooler that’s also pre-assembled/filled and plug-and-play like all-in-one units.

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Arctic Accelero Hybrid II-120 Liquid GPU Cooler

Arctic’s Acclero Hybrid II-120 combines an AIO liquid cooler with a back side heatsink to produce a formidable yet quiet cooling solution for high-end graphics cards.

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Quiet Mini-ITX Gamer Build Guide

A quiet system in a smaller form factor is our followup to the Quiet ATX Gaming Build Guide posted in the last couple of weeks. It is another high performance rig, one quiet enough to be just about inaudible even atop your desk. Your family will never know that you’re gaming on this machine unless

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Cryorig R1 Ultimate & Universal CPU Coolers

While Cyrorig is a relative newcomer to the well-establish CPU heatsink market, their flagship R1 Ultimate/Universal has all the trappings of a top-tier cooling solution.

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