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  • Coolermaster Cool Drive 3

    14 November 2003, 00:00

    The Cool Drive 3 is certainly a hard drive cooler to consider if you are concerned about the temperature of your hard disk drive. This is by far one of ...

  • Kamakaze CPU Cooler

    20 October 2003, 00:00

    What the Kamakaze lacks in looks it makes up for in performance. The standard product provides for most needs and is excellent as a high performance cooler and excels as ...

  • Vantec Nexus Fan Controller

    12 October 2003, 00:00

    These controllers are by far the best fan controllers I have seen. It\'s an innovative idea by including 2 cold cathode tubes within the kit, to provide a 2 in ...

  • VapoChill XE [Socket 478 P4]

    8 October 2003, 00:00

    For those looking to get the most out of a Pentium 4 processor, especially up in the giddy heights of 4GHz operation with a 3.0, 3.2 or 3.2 Extreme Edition, ...

  • AMD XP2500+ Barton 'AQXEA'

    1 September 2003, 00:00

    Bottom line - if you're prepared to delve into the art of overclocking, you'll be considerably rewarded with an investment in these Ā£70 wonders.

  • Asetek VapoChill XE

    23 August 2003, 00:00

    I'm addicted to phase change now, Asetek will have to prise this unit from my cold, dead, R404a chilled hands. The performance and new ChillControl make VapoChill'ing an attractive proposition ...

  • Corsair Hydrocool 200 Watercooling

    6 August 2003, 00:00

    How would we summarise our Hydrocool 200 findings ?. We'd say that it's an excellent platform from which to start your watercooling adventure. Decent component selection and integration takes most ...

  • Zalman CNPS7000-Cu Cooler

    10 June 2003, 00:00

    What attributes should a decent heatsink and fan combination have ?. It should cool well. It should be able to cool well with reasonable voltage load. It should have the ...

  • Zalman ZM80A-HP Silent VGA Cooler

    28 May 2003, 00:00

    The Zalman ZM80A-HP cooler achieves its aims of cooling even the fastest of current GPUs passively. The clever engineering, large dissipation area, and excellent heatpipe ensures that we can run ...

  • Asetek WaterChill KT03-L20

    1 May 2003, 00:00

    Performance-wise, the Asetek WaterChill didn't disappoint. Even when the radiator's fan was set to 7v via the control system, the performance exhibited toppled that of a premier air-cooling solution. Asetek ...

  • AMD XP1700 JIUHB Testing

    3 April 2003, 00:00

    Are the JIUHB XP1700s the new AXIAs ? (remember them ?). No, they're probably just little bit better in terms of overclockability. We managed a default voltage overclock of close ...

  • CoolerMaster XDream HAC-V81 & HSC-V83

    24 March 2003, 00:00

    Kudos to Cooler Master for producing high-quality heatsinks at a very affordable price. Sure, there are better coolers out there, but you'd find it difficult to find a better one ...

  • Vantec Nexus Fan Controller - NXP-201-SL

    6 February 2003, 00:00

    Over the years Vantec have released some stomping products. They mainly produce cooling devices from system coolers to thermal control systems.

  • Swiftech QuietPower FS020

    4 November 2002, 00:00

    I used to run a self assembled watercooling system and while it was a lot of fun to setup and run, I have to say I enjoyed the simplicity of ...

  • VapoChill Premium Edition

    24 September 2002, 00:00

    I really do feel that Asetek have made a concerted attempt to bring refrigerant-based cooling into the mainstream with this new VapoChill design. Once appealing to hardcore enthusiasts only, the ...

  • Swiftech MCX4000

    10 September 2002, 00:00

    Is it better than the MCX478? If you are only cooling a P4 then yes, it will eventually get better than the MCX478 at the very top end. But if ...

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  • Vapochill Premium Edition [Preview]

    9 September 2002, 00:00

    Those of us who like to push our equipment to the absolute limit will sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to ensure that we have the highest CPU MHz possible. After ...

  • The Need for Speed: 3GHz and counting

    17 August 2002, 00:00

    I've found it somewhat eye-opening to see just how well the present Northwood P4 will scale. Those that lamented the release of the P4, one with a low work-per-cycle ethos, ...

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  • Pentium 4 1.6 Northwood overclocking

    9 March 2002, 00:00

    From scouring various overclocking forums, we have gleaned that the average overclock for a 1.6Ghz Northwood is around 2.3Ghz, one that is usually achieved with a minor increase in voltage. ...

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  • Home made water block and underground cooler

    30 January 2002, 00:00

    So It seems we need to keep the 137 or higher front (140 is ok but occasional blue screen....) side bus, and go for a bigger multiplier....... But this gives ...

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  • GlaciatorII v Kanie Type 'W'

    14 December 2001, 00:00

    This is hard for me to say but I think the Glaciator has now become \'the daddy\' as the results for it are even better than my original Hedgehog, it ...

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  • FanAdapters

    27 May 2001, 00:00

    If you are going to have the fans drawing air away from the heatsink then yes I think they are a worthwhile investment you may even get better results if ...

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  • Swiftech 462A Heatsink

    13 May 2001, 00:00

    A lot of companies are claiming to have the units, but I have spoken to Coolerguys and they said they are more than happy to hook UK people up with ...

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  • Coolerguys vs OCH Shims

    13 May 2001, 00:00

    So which one do I recommend? I would choose (and always will) The CoolerGuys Cool Shim

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  • AXIA Overclocking

    8 May 2001, 00:00

    It is still not fully known whether the upcoming SMP Socket A boards will take tbirds, but if it does, I imagine for many people, two AXIAs would prove an ...

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  • Project Black Ice

    10 March 2001, 00:00

    This is the first part in a series of articles documenting the construction of probably one of the fastest, coolest and most outrageous PC's to ever be built.

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  • Thermo Summary

    4 March 2001, 00:00

    I have done my extensive testing, 24 hours nearly with each heat sink, with many different room temps, I am not gonna give you all the temp readings etc. as ...

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  • OcUK 1.4Ghz Bundle

    1 March 2001, 00:00

    I included them and the pictures in this review to make it slightly easier to understand and get it working on your own KT7A motherboard.

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  • Arctic Silver II Pepsi Challenge

    19 February 2001, 00:00

    Would I recommend it ? well hell yeah! This product is slightly cheaper than the original because you get less. But even so some might say this is a bad ...

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  • Core Heatsink

    17 February 2001, 00:00

    This unit is amazing, it is very powerful, and we will run this in our test rig from now on and see how it works long term.

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  • The Core - Preview

    9 February 2001, 00:00

    We have just had a leak from someone at CPUfx, this is their latest Heatsink, it is CNCed from Aluminum, and looks like a serious bit of kit!

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  • Overclockers Hideout Blizzard Kit

    16 January 2001, 00:00

    This system is easy to install and set-up, the pump is silent and anyone can use it. This system is easy to maintain and use. It is developed To be ...

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  • Water Cooling

    27 November 2000, 00:00

    Well, here I am, writing my first article and I decided to do it on watercooling. Yes, I know it has been done before, but most of the articles I ...

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