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Cooler Master NotePal Ax

Introduction Today we are lucky enough to have the NotePal Ax notebook cooler from CoolerMaster for review. Since the boom of notebooks in the 21st century, the accessory market has become very competitive. Manufacturers attempting to offer both quality and a good price often find themselves in a no win situation. CoolerMaster’s recent attempt at [...]

Innovation Cooling Perihelion Thermal Compound Review

Introduction. Today we are going to be taking a look at another product from Innovation Cooling, the manufacturers of IC Diamond. It is another thermal compound, as you may have guessed, called IC Perihelion. Whilst it isn’t expected to perform quite as well as their IC Diamond compound, we have been informed that it retails for quite a [...]

Netbook Cooler Shootout

Introduction In the age of the netbook, we have striven for smaller lighter notebooks, though in this quest some manufacturers have chosen to omit cooling systems inside their systems and are relying on the Atoms CPU low thermal load. One lovely example we have here is Dell’s Inspirion Mini 10v (1011). The cooling system employed [...]

Gigabyte Releases Worlds First USB3 Mini-ITX Motherboard

You might have thought someone would have already done this? Apparently not,  just released this week is the worlds first USB 3 Mini-Itx motherboard from Gigabyte, the GA-H55N-USB3. Based on the H55 chipset for LGA1156 processors, the board supports up to a Core i7 870 processor with up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM. The board also features a [...]

Akasa Freedom Tower CPU Cooler Review

  Introduction What constitutes as a bang for buck cooler? First, It must be supplied with a decent fan (or two), have support for both Intel and AMD platforms, and further still must have the same high performance cooling as the elite coolers but without the same expensive price tag. Akasa must be one of [...]

Akasa Venom CPU Cooler Review

Introduction We reviewed the Akasa’ Nero S CPU cooler only just last month dubbed their “premium cooler”. Now however Akasa have come to the market with a cooler capable of mounting two 120mm fans titled, the “Venom”, not to be confused with the Venomous X from Thermalright. Akasa state on the box “King of Cooling”. [...]

Prolimatech Armageddon CPU Cooler Review

Introduction While heatsinks have become a common feature at Overclockers Tech since the start of this year, Prolimatech’s Megahalems never really made much of an impact in our testing. That said we did review the more expensive Mega Shadow variant that wasn’t worth the extra £20 premium over the original and didn’t perform too well [...]

Patriot Viper Extreme Performance 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C8 Review

Introduction Choosing the right memory kit for you isn’t easy nowadays – especially if you factor in the recent hike in memory prices. It’s getting harder to decide just what is value for money, and what is cheap and nasty. Patriot’s 6GB (3x2GB) 1600MHz CL8 Vipers for X58 systems are reasonably priced currently at £150.00 [...]