October happens to be one of my favorite months of the year since it marks the beginning of winter the season which is very kind to most electrical and electronic devices out there. For me winter means i can perform...
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Although we’re near the end of September and thus the summer season should be long over by now that’s not really the case here so with temperatures as high as 36 degrees Celsius it really comes as very little surprise...
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Benchmark Reviews has now completed performance testing of our Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E processor. As this is Intel’s first 8-core consumer processor, we have high expectations for this top-end iteration of the new Haswell-E architecture. Equipped with Intel’s 22nm, “3D”...
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Until recent years small form factor chassis have been exclusive to HTPC or small form factor with older small form factor motherboards aimed at office and HTPC users mainly. With the surge in high quality and gaming focused small form factor motherboards, there has been a growing need to design and release an adequate and acceptable counterpart.
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Yesterday we had to turn on both air conditioners to keep the temperature in our lab at 23 degrees in order to wrap up some tests since according to our Oregon Scientific weather station temperature outside was roughly 33 degrees...
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Over 4 years ago Noctua introduced a CPU cooler which changed the face of the cooling industry. Their NH-D14, even today is held in high reputation due to its excellent balance of performance and noise. Since then, many have attempted...
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For many enthusiasts, Noctua represents the gold standard in CPU coolers. The Austrian company has been in business for less than a decade yet has developed into a firm favourite among high-end users who will accept nothing but the very...
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Okay, so everybody should know by now that I am not a fan of this cooler series at all as the performance is too shy and the noise too high, that said. Zalman announced the Reserator 3 MAX Dual liquid...
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Just last month, we had a chance to take a look at the be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3. In fact, we were sent said cooler as soon as it was released and even before retail stock was available. Looking...
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If i had to pick a single thing that it’s quite obvious that all consumers including myself would like to have that is a completely silent system however especially for overclockers and perhaps even serious gamers that’s not really possible....
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Watercooling kits for CPUs and GPUs have been around a long time and although in the past they were considered to be something unique aimed solely towards hardcore overclockers and enthusiasts today they’ve become quite common even amongst regular gamers...
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Thermaltake introduces two new NiC series CPU coolers, also called as “non-interference coolers”. These CPU coolers ensures that you can install memory kits is heatspreaders of any size. There are 2 models introduced in this series: NiC L31 and NiC...
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Gigabyte has launched a new motherboard with a built-in quad-core Bay Trail SoC. This fanless foundation for a Mini-ITX system is called the GA-J1900N-D3V and employs an Intel Celeron J1900 (2M Cache, up to 2.42 GHz). The Celeron J1900 boasts...
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You may remember that in June of last year processor juggernaut ARM announced the Cortex-A12 chip. Designed as a replacement for the Cortex-A9 yet offering up to 40 per cent more performance with the same energy expenditure, quad-core Cortex-A12 was...
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Over the last couple of years, we have seen quite a few things from the be quiet! lineup. Whether it be with coolers, or power supplies, they have kept us pretty busy here at TweakTown. While I did miss out...
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