Head, Chill, Block – Supercool Computers Direct-The Water Block and Delid Tool for Intel Alder Lake | Practical test with the Intel Core i9-12900K 1 – Scope of supply and construction of the water block2 – Construction Delid Tool and Delidding3 – Clean the CPU and install the direct-die block4 – Temperature savings and OC…
Cooling hot M.2 NVMe SSDs properly: G-M2HP04-F and G-M2HS03-F from Graugear in the active and passive test 1 – Hot SSDs need thick coolers2 – Upright and potent: The G-M2HP04-F in detail3 – Lying cooling block: The G-M2HS03-F in detail4 – Measurements of the coolers in active and passive mode including conclusion The fact that…
Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL240 FLUX in the test – cooling under pressure 1 – Introduction and technical data2 – Look and feel3 – Methodology, results and conclusion It wasn’t that long ago that Cooler Master introduced a new line of AiO water coolers, and now they’re back with something new. The FLUX series is characterized…
Pictures of the day – what could it be? (Tip: somehow also fits Intel’s LGA-1700 socket) 1 – x20000 – block graphics? It doesn’t get any bigger!2 – x1000 – Off to the ball pool!3 – x3000 – Styrofoam and confetti from paper shredders?4 – x25 – Milky Way or bacterial culture?5 – x3 –…
Corsair H150i ELITE LCD in the test – colorful and with a display 1 – Introduction and technical data2 – Look and feel3 – Software4 – Methodology, results and conclusion With just about everything now featuring RGB lighting, manufacturers are looking for new ways to further illuminate their products. And so it is that we…
Alder Lake CPUs almost 5 degrees cooler, if you bend the cooling problem straight again – ILM-Mod for the Intel socket LGA-1700 | practice 1 – ILM-Mod in theory and practice2 – test system, results and conclusion Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs run hot, very hot. A few weeks ago, Igor identified the bending of the…
SilentiumPC Fortis 5 Dual in the test – Underdog stirs up the middle class 1 – Introduction and technical data2 – look and feel3 – methodology, results and conclusion We have already tested several coolers from the Polish manufacturer SilentiumPC and so far they have all been convincing in terms of price / performance. The…
Poor cooling in Intel’s Alder Lake – tracking down problems with the LGA-1700 socket, including possible remedies 1 – Bad cooling performance and RMA cases2 – Arched (convex) heatspreaders – cause or consequence?3 – Curved bases as the cause? Bending out of the box!4 – The right backplate as a lifeline and conclusion Badly fitting…
Sapphire Nitro + S360-A in review – GPU manufacturer tries its hand at CPU water coolers 1 – Introduction and technical data2 – look and feel3 – methodology, results and conclusion When you hear the name Sapphire, you usually think of well-cooled AMD graphics cards, in connection with water cooling, perhaps of the RX 6900XT…
Fractal Prisma AL-12 PWM ARGB case fan tested – good fan for case and radiator, even at lower speeds 1 – Introduction and technical data2 – Test setup, measuring chamber and equipment3 – speed range, starting voltage and power consumption4 – Volumenstrom (Airflow)5 – Static pressure6 – Noise emission (volume)7 – Summary and Conclusion The…
