System Cooling

By Marc Adams @ HardOCP

Enermax is back today showing us their newest space-saving design that strikes a balance between cooling and noise. Enermax has been busy as of late engineering new cooler after new cooler. The Enermax ETS-T40F-RF continues this trend and brings some new technologies with it. Enermax calls these new designs the Vortex Generator Flow and the Vacuum Effect Flow. Together these designs ensure better airflow and more efficient cooling. At least, that’s what Enermax is claiming and those are some big claims coming from a design that’s been used and improved upon countless times by many different companies. To say I’m skeptical is a bit of an understatement but that’s why we’re here today. So let’s put this thing to the test.

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By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

There’s a new AOI player in the arena, the Slovenia liquid cooling gawds from EK are now offering the Predator series liquid coolers. We test the Predator 240 which is an all-in-one liquid CPU cooler for cases with 240 mm radiator mounts, but there will be a 360 model with extra quick connect to add gear in the cooling loop as well. Armed with a nice thick radiator, proper tubing and an excellent water-block the pre-filled and fitted kit is easy to install, and yes really impressive for a 240 mm product in both noise levels and cooling performance.

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By Thomas Soderstrom @ Tom’s Hardware

Gamer Storm should be synonymous with DeepCool by now, as the company lists products from both its enthusiast and commercial builder business on the same web page. Growing out from oversized air to “AIO Cooling” where “all in one” refers to closed loops, Gamer Storm represents its latest generation in liquid cooling. The best news for enthusiasts might be that DeepCool is bucking the trend of $140 coolers, with its Captain 240 now selling for $110. DeepCool’s Gamer Storm brings us a dual-120mm liquid cooler with enhanced style and reduced price, but can it still deliver the performance?

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By crazyeyesreaper @ techPowerUp!

In today’s review, I look at the CRYORIG H7. The smaller sibling to the H5, it is actually a new model for the mainstream market. It makes use of forty aluminum fins and three Ø6 mm heatpipes that are cooled by a 120 mm x 25 mm fan. While the design may not be exciting, single tower coolers have proven their worth time and again. This particular tower’s biggest mainstay, however, is its limitless memory clearance. Let’s now figure out what the H7 Universal can do!

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By Max Page @ FrostyTech

When you’re doing real work on a desktop PC, creating content in whatever its form, there is nothing more annoying than a loud fan droning on or a computer randomly restarting because some component is overheating under load. Cooling brings reliability and quiet cooling is the only way to go!

With that in mind, on the test bench today we have BeQuiet’s Dark Rock TF heatsink – a top-down dual tower heatsink which features a pair of BeQuiet SilentWings fans and stands 130mm tall. The Dark Rock TF heatsink is built around six 6mm diameter heatpipes which link a large primary aluminum fin stack and smaller secondary set of aluminum cooling fins to a chunky copper heatspreader below. The 135mm PWM fans are arranged in a push-pull configuration, exhausting downwards so related motherboard CPU VRM components benefit from the cooling air flow.

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By Steven Kean @ Legit Reviews

DeepCool was founded in 1996 producing cooling accessories for desktops and servers. With personal computers becoming one of the most important tools of our time, they expanded into AIO liquid cooling, cases and power supplies. In September 2014, they introduced the Captain AIO liquid cooler series that features a Patented SS design (Separated Section) that divides the pump and cold plate into two blocks, connected by a unique transparent connection tube makes the water flow visible. The cooler is topped off with an LED light on the top to give it the nuclear-reactor like appearance that the designers were going after. Today, we’ll be looking at the entry-level DeepCool Gamer Storm CAPTAIN 120 CPU Liquid Cooler AIO Water Cooling solution.

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By Parm Mann @ HEXUS

If you’ve been considering a high-end Corsair Hydro Series liquid cooler in recent years, you’ve probably faced a common dilemma: do you opt for the feature-packed H100i or its larger cousin, the ‘extreme performance’ H110?

A first-world problem, for sure, but one you no longer need to face as Corsair has combined the feature set of the H100i and the size of the H110 with a new flagship Hydro Series package dubbed the H110i GT. Priced at £100, this is one of the dearest all-in-one liquid coolers ever released, so let’s see if such extravagance makes sense for enthusiast builders.

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Author: Max Page @ FrostyTech

On the test bench today we have Be Quiet‘s Pure Rock heatsink – a 155mm tall tower cooler built around four 6mm diameter copper heatpipes and paired with one of Be Quiet‘s ‘Pure Wings 2′ low noise 120mm fans. The Pure Rock heatsink has a relatively narrow footprint of 121x89mm so it should fit most motherboards where the memory slots are tight against the CPU socket. The heatsink ships with a single 120x25mm fan that spins at 1500RPM, moving up to 51CFM at 1.25 mm/H2O according to manufacturer specs.

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By crazyeyesreaper @ TechPowerUp!

Today’s review will cover the SilentiumPC Grandis XE1236 CPU cooler. It uses a traditional dual-tower design that makes use of six 6 mm heatpipes and, instead of dual 140mm fans, dual 120mm fans. Taking design cues from the competition’s heavy-weight dual-tower coolers, SilentiumPC keeps their offering under control in terms of height and cost. It will be interesting to see how it stacks up against the competition.

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By Max Page @ FrostyTech

The DeepCool Gamer Storm Lucifer heatsink is a fairly large CPU cooler, very much resembling a passive thermal solution on quick glance due to its boxy footprint and widely spaced aluminum fins. The heatsink isn’t a passive cooler though, its single fan is very much required to keep the Lucifer from becoming like its name-sake. The 140mm PWM fan is made by Deepcool with a rubberized frame so it sits comfortably against the aluminum fin stack without any rattling noises.

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